Guide to the Unidentified Kenai Peninsula tourist photograph album
1948
Collection number: HMC-0908.
Creator: Unknown.
Title: Unidentified Kenai Peninsula tourist photograph album.
Date: 1948.
Volume of collection: 0.5 cubic feet.
Language of materials: Materials in this collection are in English.
Collection summary: Album of a tourist and sportsman who traveled to the Kenai Peninsula.
Biographical note:
The tourist and sportsman who created this photograph album was on a trip from California to Alaska in the summer of 1948. On the trip, he visited Sacramento, California, and Portland, Oregon, before sailing from Seattle, Washington on the Alaska Steamship Company’s S.S. Baranof. He visited Ketchikan before arriving in Seward, where he took the Kenai Highway to Hentons’ Kenai Lodge on the Kenai River to fish and hunt. He then took the Alaska Railroad from Seward to Anchorage, where he visited friends Paul and Roberta Robison. While on his trip, he traveled with friends Josephine Crumrine, an artist from Ketchikan, her mother, and Mary Lee Rodgers.
Collection description:
The collection consists of the photograph album of an unidentified tourist and sportsman who visited Alaska in 1948. Subjects of the photographs include: the anonymous tourist, friends, and fellow ship passengers and sportsmen; the flooded Union Station and freight yards in Portland, Oregon; the Alaska Steamship Company docks in Seattle; the S.S. Baranof on its voyage from Seattle to Seward via the Inside Passage and Prince William Sound; Ketchikan; Columbia Glacier; Seward; the Kenai Highway; Hentons’ Kenai Lodge on the Kenai River (fishing and black bear hunting); wildlife (moose and bear); the Alaska Railroad between Seward and Anchorage; Anchorage (Downtown buildings and the Fourth of July parade and picnic); and sled dogs in a dog lot. People identified in the photographs include: Josephine Crumrine and her mother, Cam LaFabvre, George Kurtz, Bill Davis, John Carigie and Mary Lee Rodgers (S.S. Baranof passengers); Mrs. Fortuny and Dixie Bodine (dog lot); Roberta and Paul Robison and their children Paula and Pam (Anchorage family); Bert Culverson (Summit Lake Trail); and Clyde Smith, Lloyd Calvert, Tom Bye and Hal Gilfilan (Hentons’ Kenai Lodge).
Arrangement: The collection is arranged in original order.
Digitized copies: This collection has not been digitized. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact Archives and Special Collections.
Rights note: Archives does not hold copyright to materials in this collection.
Preferred citation: Unidentified Kenai Peninsula tourist photograph album, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.
Acquisition note: The collection was purchased via eBay in 2006.
Processing information: This collection was described by Jeffrey Sinnott in 2006. The guide to the collection was converted to current standard by Veronica Denison in 2015.
Container list:
| Page/Item | Description |
| 1a | “Capitol Building, Sacramento” |
| 1b | “Sacramento” Court building |
| 1c-d | “Flooded Union Station, Portland” |
| 2a | “Flooded Freight Yards, Portland” |
| 2b | “Day Before Sailing” Alaska Steamship Co. ship at dock |
| 2c | “Sailing Day” Alaska Steamship Co. ship at dock |
| 2d | “Leaving Seattle” View of dock from ship’s rail |
| 3a | “Seattle Skyline” |
| 3b | “Late Passenger Flown In” Float plane approaching ship |
| 3c | “Picking Up Late Passenger” Distant view of launch boat next to float plane |
| 3d | “This Is Him!” Launch boat at side of ship |
| 4a | “Puget Sound” View looking forward from middle of ship’s deck |
| 4b | “Iceberg” |
| 4c | “Inland Passage” |
| 4d | “Wrangell Narrows” |
| 5a | “Ketchikan” Distant view from water |
| 5b | “Dock at Ketchikan” Dock and street scene |
| 5c | “Ketchikan” Street scene |
| 5d | “Ketchikan Harbor” Harbor scene with steamship at dock |
| 6a | “Park at Ketchikan” View looking toward monument |
| 6b | “Totem Poles, Ketchikan” |
| 6c | “Fishing Boats – Ketchikan” View of small boat harbor from hillside |
| 6d | “Small Boat Harbor – Ketchikan.” View from dock |
| 7 | “Ketchikan” Street scene (same as 5c) |
| 8a | “Canadian S.S. Princess Nora” Distant view of steamship |
| 8b | “Columbia Glacier” Distant view from ship’s deck |
| 8c | “Columbia Glacier” Panorama combined from two prints |
| 9 | “Fishing Boats – Ketchikan” View of small boat harbor from hillside (Same as 6c) |
| 10a-b | “Columbia Glacier” |
| 10c | “Inland Passage” |
| 10d | “Sundum Glacier” Distant view |
| 11 | “Columbia Glacier” (Same as 5b, cropped) |
| 12a | “Port Ashtown” Distant view |
| 12b | “Port San Juan” Distant view from middle of ship’s deck |
| 12c | “Deck Tennis” Ship’s officers playing game |
| 12d | “Resurrection Bay” |
| 13 | “Small Boat Harbor – Ketchikan” View from dock (Same as 6d, cropped) |
| 14a | “Promenade Deck, Mr. & Mrs. Thornburn” |
| 14b | “L to R: Mrs. Fiskin, Mrs. Johnson, Mr. Fiskin, Mrs. Morgan, Mr. Morgan, Mrs. Moore, Cam LaFabvre” Group photo on promenade deck |
| 14c | “Josephine Crumrine n’me” |
| 14d | “Lounge – S.S. Baranof” Interior view |
| 15a | “Cam LaFabvre” |
| 15b | “Geo. Kurtz, Beth Layton, Bill Davis” |
| 15c | “Beth Layton” |
| 15d | “John Carigie” |
| 16a | “Jo Crumrine” |
| 16b | “Resurrection Bay – Seward” Distant view |
| 16c | “Seward” View of dock |
| 16d | “Landing at Seward” S.S. Baranof approaching dock |
| 17a | “End of Voyage” People and truck on dock at Seward |
| 17b | “Seward” Street scene |
| 17c | “Alaska R.R. Station, Seward.” View from park |
| 17d | “Railroad Dock, Seward” |
| 18a | “Seward Airport” Safeway Airways airplane in foreground |
| 18b | “12 Mile Ski Area” Road and sign for Divide Ski Area, Chugach National Forest |
| 18c | “Covered Bridge 10 Miles Out of Seward.” View of two covered bridges |
| 19 | “Alaska Railroad Station – Seward” View from park (Same as 17c, cropped) |
| 20a | “Bert Culverson on Trail to Summit Lake, 12 Mi.” |
| 20b | “Summit Lake” |
| 20c | “Bert Fishing at Lake” |
| 21 | “Covered Bridges on Kenai Highway” View of two covered bridges (Same as 18c, cropped) |
| 22a | “Hentons’ Kenai Lodge” |
| 22b | “Barn and Corral.” |
| 22c | “Clyde Smith, Lloyd Calvert, Tom Bye, Hal Gilfilan” |
| 22d | “The Lodge.” Lodge entrance |
| 23 | “Up the Kenai River from Hentons’ Lodge” (same as 24c, cropped) |
| 24a | “Fire Wood” Man cutting firewood with mill saw |
| 24b | “Mouth of Russian River” |
| 24c | “Up Kenai River from Lodge” |
| 24d | “Kenai R. from My Cabin Door.” Fishing creels on table |
| 25 | “Hentons’ Kenai Lodge” Lodge entrance (Same as 22d, cropped) |
| 26a | “Kenai R. Toward Mouth of Russian R.” |
| 26b | “Sunset on Kenai R., 9:30 PM.” |
| 26c | “Kenai River Ferry” |
| 26d | “Across the Kenai R.” Ferry at shoreline |
| 27 | “Mouth of Russian River” (same as 24b, cropped) |
| 28a | “Me Fishing at Mouth of Russian R.” |
| 28b | “Rainbow Trout” Fish, creel, and rod and reel |
| 28c | “Moose” Distant view from across pond |
| 28d | “See Enlargement (Moose)” Cow moose and two calves crossing river |
| 29 | “Cow Moose with Twin Calves” (Blow-up of 28d) |
| 30a | “See Enlargement (Moose)” Distant view of moose from across lake |
| 30b | “See Enlargement (Bear)” Distant view of black bear crossing Kenai Highway |
| 30c | “Hidden Lake” Distant view |
| 30d | “Kenai Lake from Train” |
| 31 | “Black Bear on Kenai Highway” (Blow-up of 30b) |
| 32a | “Spencer Glacier from Train Going to Anchorage” |
| 32b | “(?) Glacier from Train” |
| 33a | “Mt. McKinley Over Wonder Lake” |
| 33b | “Nenana River” |
| 34a | “Beginning of the Loop” Alaska Railroad, Kenai Peninsula |
| 34b | “The Loop” |
| 34c | “Three Levels of the Loop” |
| 35 | “‘The Loop’ Between Seward and Anchorage” (Same as 34c, cropped) |
| 36 | “Moose” Moose in lake (Blow-up of 30a) |
| 37 | “Rainbow Trout” Fish, creel, and rod and reel (same as 28b, cropped) |
| 38a | “Federal Bldg. – Anchorage” |
| 38b | “New Train Station – Anchorage” View from top of hill |
| 38c | “Parsons Hotel – Anchorage” |
| 39a | “Bill” Dog on chain |
| 39b | “Happy” Dog standing on dog house |
| 39c | “Jo with Megeik” Josephine Crumrine and dog on chain |
| 39d | “Midnight” Dog sitting on dog house |
| 40a | “Jo with Blizzard” Josephine Crumrine and dog |
| 40b | “Wolf” Dog chained to dog house |
| 40c | “Nenak” Dog sitting on dog house |
| 40d | “Smokey” Dog on chain |
| 41 | “Wolf” Dog chained to dog house (Same as 40b, cropped) |
| 42a | “Buck” Dog |
| 42b | “Mrs. Fortuny with Cheekako” Woman with dog in dog lot |
| 42c | “Rye” Dog |
| 42d | “Josephine Crumrine, Mrs. Fortuny, Dixie Bodine, Mrs. Crumrine” |
| 42a | “Roberta & Paul Robison, Paula & Pam” Couple with children |
| 42b-c | “Lake Spenard.” Automobile next to shoreline |
| 42d | “4th of July Parade – Anchorage” People and floats at staging area |
| 44a, b, d | “Robisons’ House – Anchorage” Log home |
| 44c | “Paula & Pam” Robison children |
| 45a | “Mary Lee Rodgers” |
| 45b | “Me” |
| 45c | “Mary Lee at Campbell Creek” |
| 46a-b | “4th of July Picnic – Anchorage” |
| 46c | “Mary Lee and I Leaving Anchorage.” Tourist and Mary Lee Rodgers in front of passenger train |
| 47a | “Mary Lee” Mary Lee Rodgers in front of passenger train |
| 47b | “The Whole Family” Mary Lee Rodger and Robison Family in front of railroad station |
| 47c | “Adios” Robison Family waving goodbye to train |
| 47d | “Heading South” Tourist and Mary Lee Rodgers at entrance to passenger car |
| 48a-d | “Mary Lee Sailing on S.S. Baranof, July 11, 1948 |
| 48a | Mary Lee Rodgers at deck rail of ship |
| 48b | More distant view of Mary Lee Rodgers on lower deck of ship |
| 48c | View of rear port side of ship leaving dock |
| 48d | View of front port side of ship |
| 49a | “There She Goes” Distant view of S.S. Baranof leaving dock at leaving Seward |
| 49b | “Top of Back Bar” Bottle labels on ceiling of bar of ship |
| 49c | “‘Gils’ Lounge” Mary Lee Rodgers at bar on ship |
| 50a | “Up the Kenai River” River view showing dock and rowboat |
| 50b | “Truck Garden at Lodge” Hentons’ Kenai Lodge |
| 50c | “Kenai River” |
| 50d | “The Lodge” Area in front of lodge |
| 51 | “Corral and Barn at Lodge” Hentons’ Kenai Lodge (Same as 22b, cropped) |
| 52a | “Kenai River” |
| 52b | “Starkey & Frank” Distant view of people and dogs in motorized boat on river |
| 52c | “Moose on Road” View from behind |
| 53 | “60 Lb. King Salmon” Tourist with salmon on bank of river |
| 54a-d | “Potential 5 Ft. Black Bear Rug” |
| 54a, c | Tourist with rifle and black bear kill |
| 54b | Black bear kill and rifle |
| 54d | Two men with black bear kill |
| 55 | “300 Lb. Black Bear” Tourist with rifle and black bear kill (Same as 54a, cropped) |