President Harding’s Trip to Alaska, 1923

Collection

Identifier: PCA 418

Staff Only

Alaska's Digital Archives: President Harding's Trip to Alaska, 1923. Photographs, ASL-PCA-418

Scope and Contents

The photographs were taken for the New York Times’ coverage of President Warren Harding’s “Voyage of Understanding” to the Far North in late July and early August of 1923. They include his arrival in Ketchikan, in Juneau, Metlakatla, Skagway, Seward, Cantwell, and Valdez. Governor Bone's daughter Marguerite Bone Wilcox donated a collection of photographs also of President Harding's trip to Alaska, PCA 70.

Dates

1923

EAD

PCA0418

Extent

24 Photographic Prints : 14 photographs ; 7 postcards ; 3 stereographs

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Existence and Location of Copies

The photographs in this collection have been digitized and are available to view via Alaska's Digital Archives.

General

The inventory is transcribed from the newspaper or typewritten labels on the verso of each photo.

Processing Information

The photos were numbered and inventoried. Because the photos are fragile, reprints are available for viewing.

Digital Material

Alaska's Digital Archives: President Harding's Trip to Alaska, 1923. Photographs, ASL-PCA-418

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding aid for President Harding’s Trip to Alaska, 1923
Status: In Progress
Author: Processed: February 2001 by: Gladi Kulp ; Revised : Oct. 2007 by: Jim Simard ; ArchivesSpace finding aid by: Sandy Johnston 2019 May ; Inventory added by: Sandy Johnston
Date: 2020 June
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: English