Robert Wagner family collection, 1912-1953.
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Robert Wagner family collection, 1912-1953.
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Physical Description:
1.10 cu. ft.
Abstract:
The Robert Wagner Family Collection consists primarily of photographs. They include images of Wagner family members and friends and their activities; interior and exterior views of the North Pole Bakery in Fairbanks, Alaska, which the family owned and operated in the 1930s; images of the Fairbanks Ice Carnival in the 1930s and of the effects of the 1937 earthquake in Interior Alaska; and a number of commercially produced photographs of Eskimos, reindeer, and Alaskan towns and scenery, many of them by photographer H. G. Kaiser. Other items in the collection include Alice Stuart engagement calendars for 1952 and 1953 illustrated with Alaskan scenes and a number of newspaper clippings dealing with the Katmai eruption of 1912 and other topics. Of special interest is an article on the North Pole Bakery.
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Biographical/Historical Data:
C. W. (Curt W.) Wagner, the father of Robert Wagner, was born in Germany ca. 1889 and immigrated to the United States in 1906. A baker by trade, he was at various times in his career a baker for the Karluk, Alaska, fish hatchery, a cook for the Alaska Railroad, and the proprietor or coproprietor of a restaurant and lunch counter in San Francisco and a bakery in Los Banos, California. In Fairbanks, Alaska, he was proprietor of the North Pole Bakery in the 1930s.
Restrictions on Access:
Access limited to Alaska and Polar Regions Collections research room hours.