PCA 479: Alaska Trip Photographs, 1926

Alaska State Library Historical Collections

Guide to Collection

Brooks, Balbi, collector

Alaska Trip Photographs, 1926

PCA 479

1 Folder Processed by: Ken Nail, Jr., LAM 48 photographs; b & w October, 2007 Revised: sml/kn, 11/07;jas 3/11

ACQUISITION: Photographs donated to the Alaska State Library Historical Collections by Balbi Brooks and accessioned September 1, 2004 (# 2004-043.)

ACCESS: Unrestricted

COPYRIGHT: Request for permission to publish material from the collection must be discussed with the Librarian. Photocopying does not constitute permission to publish.

PROCESSING: Photographs were numbered and placed in Mylar protectors. Photograph inventory was taken from the descriptions on the verso of the photographs.

Alaska Department of Education & Early Development Division of Libraries, Archives & Museums P.O. Box 110571  Juneau  Alaska 99811-0571  (907) 465-2925  Fax: (907) 465-2990 PCA 479: Alaska Trip Photographs, 1926 Alaska State Library

SCOPE AND CONTENTS NOTE

The 48 photographs in this collection depict a trip to Alaska in July 1926. Photos include Skagway on July 4, 1926; Cordova; Juneau; Columbia, Spencer and Childs Glaciers; McKinley Park; Liberty Falls, Pitchfork Falls and Delta River. Most of the black and white photographs (no negatives) have handwritten descriptive notes on the back of the photo.

SUBJECTS

McKinley Park, Richardson Highway, McCarthy, Glaciers, Southeast Alaska.

INVENTORY

1 Train on the loop

2 Bridge

3 [no description; Two mountains with reflection in water]

4 Columbia Glacier; July 21, 1926

5 [no description; ship]

6 Columbia Glacier

7 [no description; ship]

8 [no description; ship Princess Charlotte]

9 “Henry ford”ing a stream; McKinley Park, 1926

10 Jake, a fine leader of the Karstens; McKinley Park, 1926

11 One of the Karstens malamutes, 1926

12 One of the Karstens malamutes, 7/15/26, McKinley Park

13 Spencer Glacier, 1926

14 Spencer Glacier, 1926

15 The loop between Seward and McKinley Park, 1926

16 Spencer Glacier looking through deep gorge, 1926

17 The Delta River, 1926

18 Macarty [McCarthy] on Richardson Hwy, 1926

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19 Ferry at Macarty [McCarthy], 1926

20 The ferry. Macarty [McCarthy] in distance. Freight stop R. H.[Richardson Highway], 1926

21 Macarty [McCarthy], 1926

22 Eating place on train between M. K. [McKinley] Park & Seward, 1926. New England Restaurant [Sign on building]

23 Entrance to McKinley Park, 1926

24 College of Mining & Agriculture in Fairbanks, 1926

25 Childs Glacier, 7-1926

26 Liberty Falls, first day R. H. [Richardson Highway], 1926

27 Man in ore bucket, Kenekott [Kennecott] copper mines, 1926

28 “Where we slept & got half eaten up by mosquitoes the first night of the R. H.”, 1926. Sourbough [Sign on building]

29 “An old Indian woman & child; 2nd day Richardson Highway,” 7/10/26

30 Childs Glacier

31 2nd day eating place at lunch on R. H.; Rapids Roadhouse, 1926

32 Indian house & cache; Richardson Highway, 1926

33 Tiesel [?] Mt; 7-1926

34 Steel bridge at Childs Glacier; 7-1926

35 Steel bridge at Childs Glacier; 7/1926

36 Miles Glacier; 7-1926

37 Tunnel near Chitina, 1926

38 Tunnel near Chitina, 1926

39 Steel bridge between Chitina & Kennecott, 1926

40 Terminal moraine at Kennecott mines, 1926

41 Alaska – Juneau gold mine & mill; 7-1926

42 The Queen; 7/26

43 Sea gull at Cordova, 7/1926 3

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44 Gulls at Cordova; 7/1926

45 Pitchfords [Pitchfork] Falls between Carcross & Ketchekan. [sic, and location is actually between Carcross & Skagway]

46 Pitchfords [Pitchfork] Falls

47 Skagway; 7/ 4/26

48 Juneau; 7-1926

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