Old Alaska & Yukon photographs

Elbridge Warren Merrill

Lovely, original, hand tinted photograph by Merrill of Sitka. Merrill was a famous Alaskan artist/photographer, and this is one of the nicest examples of his work. Two Tlingit or Haida canoes. The small one is probably a spruce canoe; the larger of cedar. Blankets hang over the bow and stern, which will be used to cover the canoe to keep the sun from drying it out. According to the N.P.S., "Elbridge Warren Merrill was a Boston engraver and news photographer who had come to Alaska in 1897. He arrived in Sitka that year, is said to have gone on to the Klondike, and returned to Sitka in 1899. After working at odd jobs in Sitka, Merrill opened a curio store and photography studio in 1905. His store was located in downtown Sitka in the Mills Building, and his studio was on Jamestown Bay. At the time it was accessible only by a footpath that wound along the beach and through Indian River Park." This wonderful photograph is in great condition with the original studio frame, 8"x 10". Hand signed in the lower right, in white paint, by Merrill.
SOLD

For sale: Tlingit canoes by Elbridge Merrill of
Sitka.

For sale: original cabinet card of the Jeanette
Expedition.

The Jeannette Expedition

Nice original composite cabinet card of the Jeannette Expedition. 1879 date under the caption.

Image is in good condition, mount has a tear in bottom right. Great early Arctic Exploration Photo.

Size is about 4 1/4 X 6 inches.

$195 plus $6.00 postage, packing, & insurance (international orders extra). For faster shipping, inquire. Credit cards not accepted.
[shelf locator: MapCase photography drawer] Inventory #1366 .

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Mt. McKinley

Original hand-tinted photograph of Mt. McKinley [Denali] in original pie-crust frame.

Blind-stamped Schallerer's Photo, Seward Alaska, and sold at the Nugget Shop, Juneau, Alaska.

By photographer Otto Schallerer.

about 11 1/2 inches x 9 1/2 inches. This is a very scarce image.

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$350. plus $12.00 postage, packing, & insurance by priority mail (international orders extra).
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Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: MapCase photography drawer]
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Denali Mt. McKinley
photo by Otto Schallerer, Seward, Alaska.

For sale: folio
portrait of Allen Hasselborg of Alaska.

Allen Hasselborg

Here is an original, folio, unpublished, fine portrait photograph of Allen Hasselborg. For more information on Hasselborg, see the book "Bear Man of Admiralty Island: A Biography of Allen E. Hasselborg"

This wonderful portrait of Allen Hasselborg was taken by Frederic A. Wardenburg of Wilmington, Delaware, a serious amateur photographer. Signed, titled, and dated 1947, by Wardenburg, in pencil.

13.5" X 16.4" silver matt print (mounted on 16" X 20" board).
This photograph is in very good condition with minor defects. The mount is good with small chipping at the corners and edges (will not be seen when matted and framed). Wardenburg entered the University of Colorado at age 14 and graduated with an engineering degree at age 18. He worked for Du Pont as an engineer and chemist, and was later on the board of directors at Du Pont. In his retirement he was an active amateur photographer.

A rare and important Alaska photograph. Probably unique.

$1250.00 plus $12.00 postage, packing, & insurance by priority mail (international orders extra).

Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: MapCase photography drawer]

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1890
National Geographic Society
Expedition to Alaska.

Original cabinet card of Blossom Island near Yakutat Alaska.
Ex Gardner Collection.
Blossom Island is a rocky mass, covered with flowers,
protruding through Malaspina glacier in the St Elias region
which was discovered by the 1890 National Geographic Society expedition.

"Camp on Blossom Island, Aug 2, 1890"

$250.00 plus $5.00 postage, packing, & insurance by priority mail (international orders extra).

Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: MapCase photography drawer]

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For sale: 1890 Original cabinet card of Blossom
Island National Geographic Society Expedition to Alaska.

For more info on this important Eskimo artist from Wales, Alaska, see:
http://tinyurl.com/3h7qjqf

Original Robert Mayokok
&
Family

Original 1939 Press Photo of Robert Mayokok, and young Bert Mayokok at his first water fountain.

The Mayokok family from Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, enroute to New York World's Fair.

This original photograph measures 8 x 10 inches.

$195.00 plus $5.00 postage, packing, & insurance by priority mail (international orders extra).

Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Eskimos notebook]

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For sale: original photo of Robert Mayokok and family
for sale.

Wrangell, circa 1900 Original circa 1900 photo of Wrangell, Alaska. Some idiot has laminated this photo in plastic. It still has great detail through the plastic. The laminate cannot be removed. Sold AS IS. $45.00 plus $5.00 postage, packing, & insurance by priority mail (international orders extra). Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: photographs map case drawer] SOLD	This original photograph measures about 8 x 10 inches, not including mat, which is missing corners.

For Sale: 1890's Lloyd Winter photograph of a huge
duck blind made to look like a castle, on some Juneau area
lake.

For sale: Original 1890's cabinet card
photograph of a huge duck blind made to look
like a castle, somewhere in the Juneau area.

Juneau area, 1890's.

Where was this photo taken? I assume somewhere in the Juneau area, or maybe near Atlin??

Lloyd V. Winter was part of Winter & Pond.

A giant duck hunting blind made to look like a castle.

$95.00 plus $6.00 postage, packing, & insurance by priority mail (international orders extra).

Credit cards not accepted. [shelf locator: Ephemera notebook, Juneau area]

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