Welcome to my personal photograph
collection.
These original photographs are NOT for sale.
Do you need 'one time use' of Alaska
historical photographs for your research or publication?
For a fee I will provide access (like a
stock photo agency) to the images in my
extensive private collection, which is particularly strong
in Alaska photographs from the 1870's through the 1880's.
Many
of these important images have been acquired over a lifetime
of intensive collecting, and can be found nowhere else.
The fee depends on what you need the image for or the nature
of the publication.
As time permits I will add the titles of images in
my collection. I have especially strong holdings of Brodeck,
Ingersoll, Partridge, Davidson, McIntyre, Broadbent, Continent
Stereoscopic, etc.
other photographic formats
Fantastic, sharp, real photo
postcard of Hardy Trefzger of Yakutat Alaska in his tent camp. This
postcard was mailed in 1918 by Hardy himself. It shows Hardy and a
Tlingit partner in camp. The camp scene includes two tents, two
pairs of skiis, two rifles, two dogs, two rolls of seal skins, a
crosscut saw, canteen, ropes, a bear skin, and a bear trap. There
are probably very few photographs in existence that show a bear trap
that was actually used to trap bears. Probably 99.9% of bear traps
were manufactured as ornaments; not this one! On the back of the
card Hardy mentions climbing Mt. St. Elias. Hardy is smoking a pipe
and holding a small skin. Hardy Trefzger wrote the book: "My fifty
years of hunting, fishing, prospecting, guiding, trading, and
trapping in Alaska" which has become a classic.
Important, original, magic
lantern slide from the 1910 Parker-Browne expedition to Mt. McKinley
showing the men in the expedition boat Explorer on a mud flat, probably tidal. Sitting
on the stern of the boat is Belmore Browne with paint brush in his
right hand, paint pallet in his left hand, and a canvas in front of
him. An extraordinary photograph of Belmore Browne painting or
sketching in Alaska! I also have a number other photographs of the
1910 Parker-Browne expedition to Mt. McKinley, including one of the
Explorer, the Parker-Browne team, and
Alaska Natives at, I believe, Susitna Station.
Original photograph of
Professor Herschel C. Parker in Alaska. He is standing next to a box
marked "H. C. Parker Talkeetna", and wall tents. Probably taken at
Susitna Station or Talkeetna Station.
Unpublished photograph (and
unknown to Bob Marshall's biographer) of Bob Marshall standing in
front of Martin Slisco's Roadhouse in Wiseman, Alaska. This photo is
similar to the one in Robert Marshall's North
Doonerak, Amawk and Apoon, which has these four men
standing in front of the middle fork of the Koyukuk River. In this
photograph, in front of Martin Slisco's Roadhouse, are, L to R, Ken
Harvey, Bob Marshall, Jesse Allen, and Nutirwik. This photograph was
owned by a miner who lived at Wild Lake in the 1930's. Bob Marshall
says of Nutirwik "Ernie Johnson was so busy with mining he could not
come along. In his place Nutirwik joined us. He is one of the most
companionable, competent and considerate of all the fine people
around Wiseman, whether white or Eskimo, and always tried to do more
than his share. He brought his dogs, Coffee and Whiteye, while
Harvey took his dog, Moose, and they aided materially in dispersing
the load." Here is an interesting story about Martin Slisco:
https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,848742-1,00.html
I have a large collection of
early Alaska magic lantern slides from the various Corwin
expeditions to northern Alaska and Siberia in the 1880's. These
sharp glass slides, about 120 years old, were contact-printed
directly from the original negatives.
for info
please email me at dick@AlaskaWanted.com
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