Guide to the Mildred and Robert Mowrer scrapbook
1941
Collection number: HMC-0935.
Creators:
Mowrer, Mildred.
Mowrer, Robert.
Title: Mildred and Robert Mowrer scrapbook.
Date: 1941.
Volume of collection: 0.5 cubic feet.
Language of materials: Materials in this collection are in English.
Collection summary: Scrapbook made by a couple who toured the western U.S., Alaska, and the Yukon Territory.
Biographical note:
Mildred E. Mowrer was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1910. She graduated from Stevens High School and married Robert K. Mowrer in 1939. She was a homemaker active in volunteer work and such organizations as the Lancaster General Hospital Auxiliary, the Iris Club, the Women’s Garden Club, and the Lancaster County Conservancy. Mildred Mowrer died in Lancaster in 1998.
Robert Kready Mowrer was born in Lancaster in 1907. He graduated from the Lancaster Boys High School in 1925 and later earned degrees in physics (B.S., Franklin and Marshall College, 1929; M.S., Lehigh University, 1931) and science education (Columbia University, 1932). An active sportsman, conservationist and advocate for parks and recreation, he served 34 years on his local county parks and open spaces advisory committee and was and a 23-year board member of the Lancaster County Conservancy. Robert Mowrer died in Lancaster in 2000.
Collection description:
The collection consists of Mildred and Robert Mowrer’s scrapbook from their trip to the western U.S. and Alaska in 1941. The album contains original photographs, commercial photographs, and photographic postcards, as well as various tourist booklets, maps, brochures, clippings, licenses, and other memorabilia. Within the album there are daily typed entries describing their trip. Subjects of the photographs include: Mildred and Robert Mowrer and friends; Yellowstone, Olympic, Rainier, Mt. McKinley (now Denali), Crater Lake and Rocky Mountain National Parks; Grand Coulee Dam; the S.S. Aleutian; Ketchikan; Mendenhall Glacier; Columbia Glacier; Valdez; the Alaska Railroad; a placer mining dredge and thawing points near Fairbanks; Nenana; the Yukon River and the riverboat Yukon; Beaver; Fort Yukon; Dawson; the riverboat Casca; Ben-My-Chree; the riverboat Tutshi; the White Pass and Yukon Railway; Skagway; the S.S. Princess Alice; Wrangell; Alert Bay; and Butchart Gardens. The memorabilia inside the album include: a U.S. road map marking the Mowrer’s car trip; an Alaska Steamship Co. passenger list for the July 1st sailing of the S.S. Aleutian from Seattle; a copy of the Mowrers’ reservation confirmation for their Alaska trip on the White Pass and Yukon Route; and two Alaska Steamship Company maps which also mark the Mowrer’s trip.
Arrangement: The collection is arranged by document type.
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 this collection.
Preferred citation: Mildred and Robert Mowrer scrapbook, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.
Separated materials: Publications were removed from the collection and some added to the Library’s Rare Books collection. Please ask an archivist for further information.
Acquisition note: The collection was purchased via Internet auction in 2006.
Processing information: This collection was arranged and described by Jeffrey Sinnott. The guide to the collection was converted to current standard by Veronica Denison in 2017.
Photograph list:
Note: Numbers of photographs correspond to the page on which they occur in the album and their position on the page, generally top to bottom, left to right.
| Item number | Description |
| 1 | “Mr.-Mrs. Robert K. Mowrer, 337 W. Walnut St., Lancaster, Penna.” Portrait in garden |
| 2 | Man and woman sitting on fence in cemetery at Clinton, Iowa |
| 3a | “Bob eating dinner at camp, Indiana. Notice water bag and bed in car” 1941 June 14 |
| 3b | “Mr.-Mrs. C. Bickert and family of Clinton, Iowa. Folks that met on our 1940 western trip” |
| 4a-b | Male, female and baby swans taken in a cemetery, Clinton, Iowa |
| 4c | “Mildred cooking supper in the care because of the strong wind” Near Gordon Iowa, 1941 June 16 |
| 5a | “Hot Spring at Thermopolis, Wyo.” 1941 June 17 |
| 5b | “Taken along the road going into Yellowstone. Mildred picking up snow” Car at top of Sylvan Pass, 1941 June 17 |
| 5c | “Looking east from the Shoshone dam along the Cody road” 1941 June 17 |
| 5d | “A buffalo in Yellowstone Park” 1941 June 17 |
| 6a | “The picture at left speaks for itself” Robert Mowrer with string of cutthroat trout caught in Yellowstone National Park, 1941 June 18 |
| 6b | “On the right we have a view of the upper Falls in Yellowstone” 1941 June 18 |
| 6c-d | “Two views of the Lower Falls in Yellowstone Park” 1941 June 18 |
| 8a-b | “Two views of Old Faithful in all its glory. These pictures were taken in the rain” Old Faithful Geyser, 1941 June 19 |
| 8c | “Daisy Geyser. Yellowstone Park” 1941 June 19 |
| 9 | “Completed Dam and Balancing Reservoir, Grand Coulee Dam, Wash.” Artist’s rendering, Ellis No. 1922 |
| 12a | “General View, Grand Coulee Dam, Wn” Ellis No. 1918 |
| 12b | “Road from Grand Coulee Dam, showing Steamboat Rock in the foreground” 1941 June 22 |
| 12c | “Snoqualmie Falls near Seattle, Wash” 1941 June 22 |
| 13a | “Camping ground and Lake Crescent in background. Olympic National Park, Wash” June 23, 1941 |
| 13b | “Community Kitchen, Lapoel Forest Camp” Ellis No. 3336 |
| 14a | “Mildred doing the family wash. Lake Crescent, Olympic Nat’l Park, Wash” June 23, 1941 |
| 14b | “Sol Duc Falls, Olympic Nat’l Park” 1941 June 25 |
| 14c-d | “Elk, taken along road south of Aberdeen, Washington” 1941 June 25 |
| 15a | “Mt. Rainier, taken from camp” 1941 June 26 |
| 15b | “Narada Falls, Mt. Rainier Nat’l Park” 1941 June 26 |
| 15c | “Mildred feeding the ground squirrel at camp” 1941 June 26 |
| 18a | “Above the clouds taken from elevation marker 7685 ft. above sea level” Mount Rainier, 1941 June 27 |
| 18b-c | “Pinnacle Peak and faintly Mt. Adams, looking down on the clouds” 1941 June 27 |
| 22 | “S.S. Aleutian at Skagway Alaska” Front starboard view |
| 23a | “Scene near entrance of Tolmie Channel.” View from S.S. Aleutian, 1941 July 1 |
| 23b | “Scene near Alert Bay, taken from boat” 1941 July 1 |
| 23c | “Scene near entrance of Tolmie Channel” 1941 July 1 |
| 24a | “Totem Poles at Ketchikan, Alaska. Carved by Indians” 1941 July 3 |
| 24b | “Totem Poles near Park, Ketchikan, Alaska” 1941 July 3 |
| 26 | “Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska” View from foot of glacier, 1941 July 4 |
| 27a | “Sea Gulls near Cannery at Cordova” Fishing boat scene, 1941 July 6 |
| 27b | “Cordova, Alaska. Taken as we left” 1941 July 6 |
| 27c | “Scene near Columbia Glacier” 1941 July 6 |
| 28a | “An iceberg near Columbia Glacier, Alaska” 1941 July 6 |
| 28b | “Columbia Glacier in the distance” 1941 July 6 |
| 28c | “Another view of Columbia Glacier” 1941 July 6 |
| 29a-b | “Views of Columbia Glacier” 1941 July 6 |
| 29c | “This picture speaks for itself” Valdez sign on dock, 1941 July 6 |
| 29d | “Looking through the port hole toward the edge of Valdez” 1941 July 6 |
| 30a | “Taken between Valdez and Seward, Alaska” Mountain scene, 1941 July 7 |
| 30b | “Another scene taken between Valdez and Seward, Alaska” 1941 July 7 |
| 30c | “Approaching Seward” Resurrection Bay, 1941 July 7 |
| 31 | “Bartlett Glacier taken from the railroad” 1941 July 7 |
| 32 | “Alaska Railroad showing high bridge” 1941 July 7 |
| 33 | “Spencer Glacier, 53 miles from Seward, taken from train” 1941 July 7 |
| 34a | “Looking down in Hurricane Gulch from bridge 296 ft. above Creek” 1941 July 8 |
| 34b | “Polychrome peaks taken from road on the way to Camp Eielson” 1941 July 8 |
| 35a | “Red Fox with squirrel at Camp Eielson, McKinley Park” 1941 July 8 |
| 35b | “Camp Eielson in foreground” 1941 July 8 |
| 35c | “Moon rising at Camp Eielson about 10 P.M” 1941 July 8 |
| 36a | “Taken at 2 A.M. at the camp. Mt. McKinley showing faintly” 1941 July 9 |
| 36b | “Taken at 2:30 A.M. with Mt. McKinley showing and the moon beside it” 1941 July 9 |
| 37a-b | “Views of Mt. McKinley. Taken by Bob at 2:30 A. M. This is an enlargement of the picture below” 1941 July 9 |
| Loose | Mount McKinley and moon, 1941 July 0 |
| 38a | “The dog with Bob saved a ranger one time” Scene at dog kennels at ranger station, Mt. McKinley National Park, 1941 July 11 |
| 38b | “Mildred with Skipper, a 10 mo. old huskie” 1941 July 11 |
| 39a | “Placer mining, dredging near Fairbanks” 1941 July 12 |
| 39b | “Another view of Placer near Fairbanks” 1941 July 12 |
| 39c | “Close view of a Dredge, near Fairbanks” 1941 July 12 |
| 40a | “Thawing points, up to 60 ft. Near Fairbanks” 1941 July 12 |
| 43a | “Indian girls at mission. Nenana, Alaska” Girls in flower garden, 1941 July 13 |
| 43b | “Episcopal Church and mission in background. Nenana, Alaska” 1941 July 13 |
| 43c | “Drying fish on the mission grounds, Nenana, Alaska” Drying racks with roof, 1941 July 13 |
| 44a | “River fish wheel near Tanana” View from Yukon River steamer, 1941 July 13 |
| 44b | “Yukon River Boat” Paddlewheel steamer Yukon, 1941 July 13 |
| 45a | “Entrance to Purgatory” Sign and scarecrow on Yukon River near Beaver, 1941 July 15 |
| 45b | “Purgatory itself” People at log cabin and caches at Purgatory, 1941 July 15 |
| 46a | “An Indian Fish Wheel” 1941 July 15 |
| 46b | “Sunset at 10:30 P.M. near Beaver” 1941 July 15 |
| 47a | “Recrossing the Arctic Circle at 7 P.M.” Sign on riverbank, 1941 July 16 |
| 47b | “Fort Yukon taken from boat as we were leaving” Northern Commercial Co. building at left, 1941 July 16 |
| 47c | “Yukon steamer taken while at Fort Yukon” Paddlewheel steamer Yukon, 1941 July 16 |
| 48a | “3 Husky pups taken at Fort Yukon” 1941 July 16 |
| 48b | “Indian lady with papoose in background” Mildred Mowrer with dog near log cabin, 1941 July 16 |
| 49a | “Calico Bluff, showing folds of rocks taken near Eagle” 1941 July 18 |
| 49b | “Another view of Calico Bluff” 1941 July 18 |
| 49c | “Playful husky at Eagle” 1941 July 18 |
| 49d | “Loading wood. 4 of them are passengers.” People loading firewood onto riverboat from wood piles using ramp, 1941 July 18 |
| 50a | “Moosehide, an Indian village near Dawson, Canada” View from riverboat, 1941 July 19 |
| 50b | “Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Tidd and Mildred at their home in Dawson, Canada” Claude Tidd and wife Mary with Mildred Mowrer sitting on porch steps, 1941 July 20 |
| 51 | “Looking down on Dawson, Y.T., Canada” 1941 July 20 |
| 52a | “Looking up street showing Dawson. Taken from the Dome” 1941 July 21 |
| 52b | “Ferry moved by the force of water flowing down stream, Dawson” 1941 July 21 |
| 52c | “Beth and Mildred in foreground. Yukon river in background” 1941 July 21 |
| 52d | “Looking on the Bonanza and Klondike from the Dome. Placer tailings showing in the valley and mines on the sides of the hills” 1941 July 21 |
| 54a | “An Indian family” Man, woman and three small children with two sleds |
| 54b | “A herd of Caribou” |
| 55 | “This is ‘Dempsey,’ belonging to Percey DeWolfe. About 5 years old and traveled about 10,000 miles as a leader” Sled dog |
| 56a | “Percey DeWolfe, owner of the dog. Mail man from Dawson to Eagle” Man in fur parka and mukluks |
| 56b | “Winter of 1933 at Mayo. About 68 below zero” Thermometer |
| 58a | “The Casca and Bob. Taken at Selkirk” Front starboard view of riverboat, 1941 July 23 |
| 58b | “Looking down stream toward Five Finger Rapids, from the boat” 1941 July 24 |
| 59a | “Looking up through the rapids from the Casca. 3 AM” 1941 July 24 |
| 59b | “Five Finger Rapids, Yukon” Riverboat White Horse in rapids |
| 60a | “A pack dog taken at 30-Mile River, an Indian village” Mildred Mowrer and dog, 1941 July 25 |
| 60b | “Sea gull on rail of boat near Lake LaBarge” 1941 July 25 |
| 61a | “Whitehorse Rapids, Yukon River” Taylor |
| 61b | “Miles Canyon, Yukon River” Taylor |
| 62a | “Miles Canyon near Whitehorse, taken from railroad” 1941 July 26 |
| 62b | “Carcross, Yukon Territory” Dedman |
| 62c | “Mountains along West Taku Arm. Taken from Boat, Tutshi” 1941 July 26 |
| 63a | “Windy Arm – near Carcross, Yukon Territory” Dedman |
| 63b | “Str. Tutshi at Carcross” Dedman |
| 63c | “West Taku Arm – en route to Ben-My-Chree” Dedman |
| 63d | “Approaching Ben-My-Chree” Dedman |
| 63e | “Str. Tutshi at Ben-My-Chree” Dedman |
| 63f | “Ben-My-Chree Falls” 1941 July 26 |
| 64a | “Ben-My-Chree” Dedman |
| 64b | “Garden at Ben-My-Chree” Dedman |
| 64c | “Entrance to Garden – Ben-My-Chree” Dedman |
| 64d | “Home at Ben-My-Chree” 1941 July 26 |
| 64e | “The Tutshi at Ben-My-Chree, taken about 9 P.M. just before leaving” Front starboard view of riverboat, 1941 July 26 |
| 65 | “Swanson Home at Ben-My-Chree” Dedman |
| 66a | “White Pass train along Lake Bennett” Dedman |
| 66b | “Lake Bennett” 1941 July 27 |
| 67a | “Reflections – Lake Bennett” Dedman |
| 67b | “Monument at Canadian Border, White Pass, Alaska” |
| 67c | “Flags at Summit, Alaska” |
| 68a | “Dead Horse Gulch -White Pass, Alaska” |
| 68b | “Inspiration Point on White Pass, Alaska” |
| 68c | “Inspiration Point of White Pass” |
| 69a | “Sawtooth Range from White Pass Train” Dedman |
| 69b | “Steel Bridge – White Pass Route, Alaska” |
| 69c | “Upper part of Pitchfork Falls near Skagway” 1941 July 27 |
| 69a | “Sawtooth Range from White Pass Train” Dedman |
| 69b | “Steel Bridge – White Pass Route, Alaska” |
| 70a | “Martin Itien and his Street Car, Skagway” |
| 70b | “Golden North Hotel, Skagway, Alaska” |
| 71a | “White Pass Train on ‘Broadway’ – Skagway, Alaska” |
| 71b | “Largest gold nugget in the world. Skagway, Alaska” 1941 July 28 |
| 71c | “Reid Falls. 300 ft. Skagway, Alaska” Waterfall, bridge and sign with poem, 1941 July 28 |
| 73a | “Princess Alice” Steamship |
| 73b | “S.S. Alaska – Skagway, Alaska” |
| 74 | “An old Indian cabin and Totem poles at Wrangell” Robert Mowrer on foot bridge in front of clan house, 1941 August 1 |
| 75 | “Bob playing shuffleboard on the Princess Alice” Steamship deck scene, 1941 August 2 |
| 76 | “Totem Pole Cemetery, Alert Bay” 1941 August 3 |
| 84a | “Sunken Garden, Butchart’s Gardens” No. B. 12 (color-tinted) |
| 84b | “The Star Pond in the Butchart Gardens” No. B. 16 (color-tinted) |
| 84c | “Italian Garden in the Butchart Gardens” No. B. 29 (color-tinted) |
| 85a | “Italian Garden, Butchart’s Gardens” No. B. 20 (color-tinted) |
| 85b | “Mt. Rainier. Yakima Park, Rainier National Park.” Mowrer car at viewing area, 1941 August 6 |
| 89 | “Crater Lake, Crater Lake National Park” |
| 92 | “Mt. Hood, Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon” 1941 August 11 |
| 94a | “This picture speaks for itself, don’t you think so? Rocky Mountain National Park” Robert Mowrer shaving face neck to car, 1941 August 14 |
| 94b | “Scene taken at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado” 1941 August 14 |
| 94c | “This picture speaks for itself also. Rocky Mt. Park, Colorado.” Mildred Mowrer sitting next to elevation sign, 12,110 feet above sea level, 1941 August 14 |
| 95a | “Rainbow Curve, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.” Sign along road, 1941 August 14 |
| 95b | “Scene at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.” Mildred Mowrer sitting on stone wall, 1941 August 14 |
| 95c | “Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado” Robert Mowrer on rock in left foreground, 1941 August 14 |
| Loose | Group photo on the Riverboat Tutshi at Carcross, left to right: Gretchen Haesley, Mr. Hall, Mrs. Tonjest, Mr. Brooks, Beth Russell, Bob Mowrer, Mildred Mowrer, 1941 July 27 |