Alaska.

Alaska, 1894-1895.

76 photographs in 1 album ; black and white prints ; photographs 19 x 22 cm and smaller

Purchased from Stephen C. Lunsford on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2019.

This material is open for research.

Lloyd Winter (1866-1945) and E. Percy Pond (1872-1943) began Winter & Pond, a photography studio, in Alaska circa 1893. In 1945, Winter turned the business over to Francis Harrison, who maintained the studio until 1956.

Photograph album with photographs taken by Winter & Pond of Alaska scenes, 1894-1895. Depicted are Tlingit (including Chilkat, Auke, and Taku) and other Alaska Natives (some of whom are identified), as well as Indigenous villages, totem poles, and graves at Dyea, Wrangell, Sitka, Chilkat, and Juneau--4 photographs are of a potlatch at Chilkat. Other photographs show miners on the Chilkoot Pass, the Treadwell Gold Mine, Muir Glacier, and landscape and town views.

English

January 07, 2021

Winter & Pond, Alaska. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Winter & Pond, Alaska. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.