Allakaket & Alatna: Images

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image thumbnail Enroute Allakaket. Title taken from caption on Album. "February 1919. Substituting for Archdeacon [Hudson] Stuck. Enroute Allakaket. Ala Kellum and team of Archdeacon Stuck." [Ala Kellum seems to be Archdeacon Drane's guide and traveling companion.] Frederick B. Drane Collection
image thumbnail K.K. E.R. at St. John's. Title taken from caption on Album. "K.K. E.R. (Misses Katherine Koster and Elenor Ridgeway) at St. John's-in-the-Wilderness. Allakaket". Frederick B. Drane Collection
image thumbnail St. John's. Title taken from caption on Album. "St. John's-in-the-Wilderness residence". Frederick B. Drane Collection
image thumbnail Archdeacon Stuck & Walter Harper. Title from caption on Album."Archdeacon Stuck & Walter Harper at the Allakaket. March 1917".[Walter Harper was the Archdeacon's protégé and his companion on journeys throughout the Alaskan wilderness. Stuck wrote: "Have I made memorable journeys? - I made them largely by his eyes and ears, his quick intelligence, his coolness and splendid self-reliance in times of stress or danger, his resourcefulness in emergency". At age 19, Harper became a member of the 1913 conquest of Denali by the Hudson Stuck party. Harper had been the first person to stand on the summit of North America's highest peak. He died in October 1918 at age 25. He and his wife, nurse Frances Wells Harper, married by the Archdeacon only six weeks earlier, were en route to Seattle when the steamer Princess Sophia got caught in a heavy snow.] Frederick B. Drane Collection;
image thumbnail Big Ice on the Allenkaket River, Alaska Title taken from caption. "11561 -- (7) Here are a couple of prospectors playing hide-and-seek in the midst of massive blocks of ice which have been left upon the banks of the Allenkaket River by the receding waters. The blocks exceed in thickness the height of the men, and constitute an impressive suggestion of the extreme and continued cold necessary for their production. Next are prospectors who would reach the North Pole, and bring it home - if it were made of gold." Stereographic Library Collection, ca. 1800-1910;
image thumbnail Group of Malamuts, Allenkaket, Alaska Title taken from caption. "11507 -- (5) The stories we read of life in the Arctic usually persuade us to believe that only the most robust persons should venture into those latitudes, and then only when well provided with an ample wardrobe of frost-proof gowns. The tourist who visits this section of the world for the first time is apt to be somewhat surprised to see a group of tiny children rolling in the snow, and engaging in their native games with genuine glee, regardless of the fact that the thermometer registers a few degrees, more or less, below zero. In this view, a fond mother has called aside two of her young hopefuls, for the purpose of having their pictures taken in Nature's gallery, and a very pleasing picture it is. The cute, interested and innocent expressions on the faces of the children cannot fail to prove fascinating to everyone.""John P. Clum, U.S.P.O. Inspector and Lecturer."Copyright, 1900, by B. L. Singley Stereographic Library Collection, ca. 1800-1910;
image thumbnail Lowell Cabin, Beaver City Alaska Title taken from caption. "11528 -- (10) The cost of constructing cabins in the Klondike during the latter part of 1897 was considerable. Logs were selling at $50 apiece, and wages were from $15 to $20 per day. An ordinary one-room cabin required an outlay of from $700 to $1,000, according to finish. If a rough-board partition was desired, $150 had to be added to the cost. Several two-story buildings, 25x80 feet in size, were constructed in Dawson at a cost of from $12,000 to $20,000 each. In the more remote isolated camps the cost of construction could only be estimated by the amount of leisure time available and the timber supply.Beaver City is located on one of the tributaries of the Koyukuk, a considerable distance north from the big bend of the Yukon, and the scene represented in this view is that of a small cabin in which a little party of gold-seekers passed the winter of 1898-99 in a most comfortable manner.""John P. Clum, U.S.P.O Inspector and Lecturer."Copyright, 1900, by B. L. Singley Stereographic Library Collection, ca. 1800-1910;
image thumbnail Miner's Banquet, Beaver City, Alaska. Title taken from caption. "11511 -- (11) The participants at this festive board were all members of one party, and the banquet was given by the leader of the party and his wife to show their appreciation of the building of the log cabin for winter quarters, which the united efforts of the band of willing workers had hastily brought to completion. In this region where the difficulties of transportation limit the food supply, a spread of such an elaborate character was a great treat to the miners. This spot is seventy-five miles north of Arctic City and was named by the party Beaver City." Stereographic Library Collection, ca. 1800-1910;
image thumbnail Starting out for caribou, Beaver City, Alaska Title taken from caption. "11502 -- (12) The interior of Alaska is generally well-timbered, and there are large tracts of good grazing country. In these conditions we are not surprised to find considerable large game. There are several varieties of bear, moose, caribou, wolves, and many fur-bearing animals; and, in certain portions the silver and black fox abound more plentiful than in any other country in the world.The caribou, which is a species of reindeer, are found in Northern Alaska, where they rove in immense herds from the Arctic Ocean to the valley of the Yukon, and in some localities range a considerable distance south of that stream. In this view we have a representation of a party of prospectors encased in their Arctic attire, with sleds loaded, ready to start on a ten days' hunt for caribou.Hunting the caribou is a rare sport, and whenever a large herd is encountered, the hunters are usually able to bring down a half-dozen or more with their unerring rifles, and thus provide their camps with an abundant supply of choice fresh meat.The hunters travel on snowshoes whenever the beaten paths are abandoned.""John P. Clum, U.S.P.O. Inspector and Lecturer"Copyright, 1900, by B. L. Singley Stereographic Library Collection, ca. 1800-1910;
image thumbnail Will Campbell, the Only white Boy on the Allenkaket River, Alaska Title taken from caption. "11555 -- (6) Judging from his suit and hood of fur and his team of dogs, we might mistake the boy in this picture for an Esquimau. In 1898, at the time of the great rush for gold, he was the only white boy on the Allenkaket River in Alaska. He is delighted with his team of six young dogs and no doubt enjoys many a long ride with them over the snow. For practical use, a team usually consists of ten or twenty dogs and is a mixture of Esquimaux dogs and dogs from the coast. The team is guided by call, a line is never used. The dogs are easily taken care of and are especially suited to the needs of the miners of that region. After a hard day's work they are fed a piece of dried dog salmon and then burying themselves in the snow, leaving only their noses stick out, they go to sleep for the night. Being very docile and sagacious, the young dogs are much enjoyed by the children as pets. These dogs were indispensable to the Yukoners in pushing their way into the interior of Alaska."Copyright, 1909, by Keystone View Company Stereographic Library Collection, ca. 1800-1910;
image thumbnail Kids down at the mission school in Alatna. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Kids down at the mission school in Alatna; "Eskimos and Indians both!" Taken when Tishu was "still a baby." Tishu V. Ulen collection;
image thumbnail Little fellas from Alatna. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. "Little fellas from Alatna ... Indian kids." A group of elders from Allakaket, including William William, identified these as (L-R): Ezias David, Titus Henzie (Mosen Henzie's father), William William, Silas Linux, and Paul Beetus, all at South Fork holding carrots. Tishu V. Ulen collection;
image thumbnail Little Fellas from Alatna. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. "Little fellas from Alatna ... Indian kids." A group of elders from Allakaket, including William William, identified these as (L-R): Ezias David, Titus Henzie (Mosen Henzie's father), William William, Silas Linux, and Paul Beetus, all at South Fork holding carrots. Tishu V. Ulen collection;
image thumbnail Bishop Rowe with Delatuck and Maggie Bishop Rowe photographed with Delatuck, an Kobuk Eskimo, and Maggie, an Athabascan Indian (Koyukuk). Walter and Lillian Phillips Photograph Collection
image thumbnail Smallpox patient at St. John's Mission Photograph of the inside of a tent, with a smallpox patient at the Saint John's Mission in Allakaket, Alaska. Visible in this ward are two pitchers, one on a stove, presumably for heating water, some hand towels above the patients head, on a shelf at the back of the tent are cups and glasses and what may be a bottle of medicine. Walter and Lillian Phillips Photograph Collection
image thumbnail St. John's in the Wilderness with ten feet of snow Winter of 1919-1920, with nearly nearly ten feet of snow up to Easter Day. Walter and Lillian Phillips Photograph Collection
image thumbnail Summer view of St. John's in the Wilderness Saint John's in the Wilderness Mission, in Allakaket, Alaska, as seen in summer. Walter and Lillian Phillips Photograph Collection
image thumbnail Weekly bath at the Mission A room full of boys taking baths in wash tubs, with the water heating system behind, at the St. John's Mission in Allakaket, Alaska. Walter and Lillian Phillips Photograph Collection
image thumbnail Coleen M. Platner photograph collection. The Coleen M. Platner Photographs (ca. 1909-1920s) contain photographs of pioneer children and their families living in Alaska, chiefly Iditarod, Chatanika, Little Eldorado City, and Eldorado Creek. There are also photographs from Nome and the Bering Sea, Fairbanks, Nenana, Ruby, Kantishna, Eagle, and Kodiak. People identified in the photographs are: Frederick W. Herms, DDS, Emelie Tjernstrom Herms, Donald McDonald, Sigrid McDonald, Robert Simpson, Oliver Johnson, Hector Burns, Mark Burns, Edgar Brooker Jr., Frank Burns, Louis Larson, Edgar Brooker Sr., Fred Jungst, Lois Hamilton, Vivian Hamilton, Tom Davis, George Stubblefield, Alfred Lytle, "Bud" Boyd, Kunute Koland, Hudson Stuck, Charles Schick, Peter Bucholz, Dave Shoat, Caroline Erskine, Mrs. Mary Brooker, Morris Moreno, Ingraham, "Scurvy Kid," John Lake, and Joe Dalton. Coleen M. Platner photograph collection

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