Early Photograph from Anvik
Alaska


A photograph of a birch bark canoe at Anvik alaska on the Yukon River.
  Measures: 3 1/4" x 4 1/8"
Condition: good, sharp details.

"Vasili and family" is written on the front of the photograph.

"Navigation past and present. The Launch and the canoe. The owner of the launch is an Innoko Indian who came down to the Yukon with his family, traveling in comfort, with kitchen stove, sewing machine and phonograph."
[shelf locator: Ephemera Notebook: Yukon River region notebook #4] 

$250 plus $2.00 postage (international orders extra) for this photo.
To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com    
For sale: A
              photograph of a Native family with a birch bark canoe at
              Anvik Alaska on the Yukon River.
For sale: A
              photograph of a Native family with a birch bark canoe at
              Anvik Alaska on the Yukon River.



For sale: A photograph of a Native family with a
              birch bark canoe at Anvik Alaska on the Yukon River.











From Wikipedia:
"Kaltag was a Koyokon Athabascan area used as a cemetery for surrounding villages. It is located on an old portage trail which led west through the mountains to Unalakleet. The Athabascans had seasonal camps in the area and moved as the wild game migrated. There were 12 summer fish camps located on the Yukon Riverbetween the Koyukuk River and the Nowitna River.

Kaltag was named by Russians for a Koyokon man named Kaltaga.

There was a smallpox epidemic in 1839 that killed a large part of the population of the area.

After the Alaska Purchase, a United States military telegraph line was constructed along the north side of the Yukon River. A trading post opened around 1880, just before the gold rush of 1884-85. Steamboats on the Yukon, which supplied gold prospectors ran before and after 1900 with 46 boats in operation on the river in the peak year of 1900. A measles epidemic and food shortages during 1900 reduced the population of the area by one-third. The village Kaltag was established after the epidemic when survivors from three nearby villages moved to the area.

There was a minor gold rush in the area in the 1880s. In 1906, gold seekers left for Fairbanks or Nome; however, the galena lead mines began operating in 1919. Kaltag was downriver from the mines and grew as a point on the transportation route for the mines. It declined in the 1940s as mining declined." (from Wikipedia)
Important
Real Photo Postcard
from
Kaltag,
Alaska



A great postcard photograph from Kaltag on the Yukon River.
 
Condition: good.

Shows the Kaltag store, boats, and men.
Image taken July, 1907. Postmarked from Seattle (on the front) & California (on the back).
[shelf locator: Ephemera Notebook: Yukon River region notebook #4] 

$95 plus $2.00 postage (international orders extra) for this RPPC.
To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com    
For sale: original 1907 postcard of Kaltag Alaska.
For sale: original 1907 postcard of Kaltag Alaska.




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