Robert A. Kenzie photograph collection : Treadwell, Alaska, July 4, 1908, ca. 1917.
Title:
Robert A. Kenzie photograph collection : Treadwell, Alaska, July 4, 1908, ca. 1917.
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
77 photographs : black and white.
General Note:
Manuscripts form a separate collection, MS 21.
In the Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, P.O. Box 110571, Juneau, AK 99811-0571.
Abstract:
Two photograph albums, one leather-bound album embossed "Treadwell" and a commercial, paper-bound album; also 12 loose photographs. July 4, 1908 images of Treadwell, Alaska, including the Alaska Treadwell Mine and the Mexican Mine. Includes Fourth of July activities, Treadwell mine interior, mining machinery, Juneau, Douglas and Fort Seward, Alaska. Photographers represented in the collection include W.H. Case, Case & Draper, Winter & Pond, E.A. Hegg and H.R. Elliott.
Biographical/Historical Data:
Robert A. Kinzie (Sr.) was born at Fort Independence, Mass., Jan. 15, 1874 . He graduated from University of CA in 1897 with a degree in civil engineering. From 1900-1905 he was assistant superintendent of the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co. and from 1905-1914, general superintendent of the Treadwell, Alaska Mexican Gold Mining Co., Alaska United Gold Mining Co., and Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. He married Veronica Kennedy of San Francisco in 1901 and they had five children: Robert A. Kinzie, Jr. (born in Douglas, Alaska and also a mining engineer), David Hunter Kinzie, Veronica K. Kinzie, Eugenia K. Kinzie Moore, and Elizabeth Kinzie Buckley. Robert Kinzie left Alaska with his family in 1914. He worked as a consulting engineer in Mexico and for several mining firms in California, including Engels Copper Co., Virginia Mines Corp., Santa Cruz Portland Cement Co., and others. Robert A. Kenzie died in 1955 in San Francisco, California.
Restrictions on Access:
Collection is open to research.