Guide to the Southeast Alaska tourist photograph album
circa 1935
Collection number: HMC-0635.
Creator: unknown.
Title: Southeast Alaska tourist photograph album.
Date: circa 1935.
Volume of collection: 0.01 cubic feet.
Language of materials: Materials in the collection are in English.
Collection summary: Photograph album of a tourist who traveled to Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, and Oregon.
Biographical note:
Not available at this time.
Collection description:
This collection consists of an album of photographs collected by a tourist on a visit to Southeast Alaska and Oregon, circa 1935. The collection consists of 83 black and white prints pasted onto original album pages. The photographs are primarily from commercially produced sets. The images include many scenic shots, as well as villages, towns, wildlife, Natives, totems, ships, and aerial views. Places pictured include: Juneau, Skagway, Wrangell, Sitka, Haines, Ketchikan, Chilkoot Pass, White Pass, and Taku Glacier in Alaska; White Horse, Prince Rupert, and Lake Bennett in Canada; and Wizard Island and Crater Lake in Oregon.
Arrangement: The collection is arranged in original order.
Alternative formats: A xerographic copy of the album, and 26 conservation negatives of selected prints are included in the collection.
Digitized copies: This collection has not been digitized. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact Archives and Special Collections.
Rights note: Archives and Special Collections does not own copyright to the collection.
Preferred citation: Southeast Alaska tourist photograph album, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.
Acquisition note: The collection was purchased on eBay by the Archives in 1999.
Processing information: This collection was described by Kathleen Hertel-Baker in 1999. The guide to the collection was converted to current standard by Gwen Sieja in 2016.
Item list:
Note: Item numbers reflect the album page on which each item is located and order of items on the page.
| Item | Description |
| 1a | “The Moccasin Makers”; Group of women selling moccasins |
| 1b | “Indian Traders”; Women paddling in canoe |
| 1c | “Mendenhall Glacier – Juneau, Alaska, Aug. 1935”; Four female tourists on glacial till |
| 1d | “Six Little Alaskan Natives”; Three girls with three puppies |
| 1e | “Alaskan Belles”; Three girls in fur parkas |
| 2a | “Taku Inlet, Alaska” |
| 2b | “Taku Glacier” |
| 2c | “Mendenhall Glacier” |
| 2d | Group of tourists looking at totems |
| 2e | “Soapy Smith’s Skull”; Skagway Harbor |
| 2f | “Prince Rupert, B.C.”; taken from hill above town |
| 3a-b | “Wrangell Narrows” |
| 3c | “Wrangell, Alaska”; from above |
| 3d | “Mt. Harding, Skagway, Alaska”; view from harbor |
| 3e | “Skagway, Alaska”; harbor view |
| 3f | “Juneau, Alaska”; view from Douglas, across Gastineau Channel |
| 4a | “Denver Glacier from the Air” |
| 4b | “Air view near Skagway, Alaska”; Dedman Post Card |
| 4c | “Airplane View Near Skagway, Alaska”; Dedman Post Card |
| 5a | “Airview, Alaska”; mountains and clouds |
| 5b | “Skagway and Lynn Canal – Alaska” |
| 5c | “Mt. McKinley” |
| 5d | “Airview”; mountains and clouds |
| 5e | “Ribbon Glacier”; aerial view |
| 5f | “Auk Lake Near Juneau, Alaska” |
| 6a | “Wrangell, Alaska”; no. A196 |
| 6b | “Taku Glacier, Alaska”; boat in foreground |
| 6c | “Flying over Alaska”; Ford Trimotor from air |
| 6e | “Petersburg and Wrangell Narrows – Alaska”; photo by Winter & Pond Co., Juneau |
| 6f | “Dyea Inlet and Long Bay from Air” |
| 7a | “S.S. Prince Robert” |
| 7b | “Ketchikan, Alaska” |
| 7c | “Mining at Juneau, Alaska”; Treadwell Mine from channel |
| 7d | “White Pass Train near Summit, Alaska” |
| 7e | “White Pass Plane – Skagway, Alaska”; Ford Trimotor |
| 7f | “Douglas, Alaska” |
| 8a | “Chilkoot Barracks and Haines, Alaska” |
| 8b | “Mt. Edgecombe, Alaska” |
| 8c | “Capital City of Juneau, Alaska” |
| 8d | “Air View”; mountains |
| 8e | “The Chilkoot Pass”; aerial view |
| 8f | “Historic City of Sitka, Alaska” |
| 9a | “Lake Bennett from the Air” |
| 9b | “Packers ascending Chilkoot Pass – Alaska – 1878” |
| 9c | “Passenger Liner at Taku Glacier, Alaska” |
| 9d | “Glaciers on Chilkoot Pass” |
| 9e | “Skagway, Alaska”; view towards harbor |
| 9f | “Lover’s Lane, Sitka, Alaska”; totems along path |
| 10a | Boundary between Alaska and Canada |
| 10b | “Soapy Smith’s Skull”; Skagway, Alaska |
| 10c | “Inscription on Old Church at Lake Bennett” |
| 10d | “The Log Church at White Horse, Yukon Territory” |
| 11a | “Caribou Swimming Across the Yukon” |
| 11b | “An Iceberg from Taku Glacier” |
| 11c | “Auk Lake – Juneau, Alaska” |
| 11d | “Monument to Dead Horses at Inspiration Point, White Pass, Alaska” |
| 11e | “Church at Metlakatla, Built by Wm. Dugan [sic] [William Ducan]” |
| 11f | Monument to Pack Animals on White Pass and Yukon Railway |
| 12a | “Replica of Russian Church at Sitka, Alaska”; Ordway photograph, No. 35, 35437 |
| 12b | Old totem pole |
| 12c | “The Midnight Sun – Alaska” |
| 12d | “The Block House, Sitka, Alaska”; Ordway Photograph, No. 34, 35992 |
| 13a | “Wizard Island”; Kiser Photograph |
| 13b | “Sunset from Kerr Notch”; Kiser Photograph |
| 13c | “East from the Kiser Rim Trail”; Kiser Photograph |
| 14a | “Dutton Cliff and the Phantom Ship”; Kiser Photograph |
| 14b | “Phantom Ship and Wizard Island”; Kiser Photograph |
| 14c | “Skell Head and Mt. Thielsen”; Kiser Photograph |
| 15a | “Wizard Island”; Kiser Photograph |
| 15b | “Sunset from Wizard Island”; Kiser Photograph |
| 15c | “East from Rim Drive near Watchman”; Kiser Photograph |
| 16a | “Rogue River Falls, Medford – Crater Lake Road”; Kiser Photograph |
| 16b | “Wizard Island and Llao Rock”; Kiser Photograph |
| 16c | “Lady of the Woods”; Kiser Photograph |
| 17a | “Rim Road and Union Peak”; Kiser Photograph |
| 17b | “The Phantom Ship”; Kiser Photograph |
| 17c | “Garfield Peak and East”; Kiser Photograph |
| 18a | Crater Lake from wooded shore |
| 18b | “Crater Lake from the Air”; Kiser Photograph |
| 18c | “Grand Arch, West Rim”; Kiser Photograph |
| 18d | Unidentified scenic view down mountain ridge |