Harrold and Thelma Clark Juneau, Alaska Photo Album, 1930s

Collection

Identifier: PCA 525-15

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains 39 photographs of the Juneau, Alaska, area. They include area scenes and photos of the family and friends of Harrold and Thelma Clark. Patti Clark Lazarich, daughter of Harrold and Thelma, wrote a short reminiscence of the Crowell family of Juneau, Alaska. There is one CD with some of the photos on it.

Dates

1930s

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is unrestricted.

Biographical / Historical

Harrold and Thelma Clark lived in Juneau, Alaska, with their daughter Patti Clark Lazarich in the 1930s and until their deaths. They are buried in Juneau.

Patti Clark Lazarich wrote a short history of the house that Fred Crowell and family lived in in downtown Juneau with anecdotes about the family. He died in 1949 at age 71, and Mae died in 1964 at age 78. They are both buried in Evergreen Cemetery in the Elks plot. Before moving to Juneau, Fred and Mae Crowell had a fox farm on a nearby island where they lived with their daughter Mickey Crowell Wagner until she was 6 years old. [Mickey Crowell was aboard the fishing boat “Sunmore” destroyed in a Tsunami in Lituya Bay during an earthquake. She and her husband Orville Wagner, of Idaho Inlet both lost their lives.]

Extent

39 Photographic Prints (1 folder) : 39 various size b&w photos ; 1 photograph description list ; 1 reminiscence letter ; 1 CD, tiff files of photos

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Processing Information

This collection has been described at the item level. All items have been placed in Mylar and into a pH-neutral folder.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding aid for Harrold and Thelma Clark Juneau, Alaska Photo Album, 1930s
Status: In Progress
Author: Processed by: Alea Oien, 6/2009 ; Revised by: Sara Bornstein, 12/2013 ; ArchivesSpace Finding Aid by: Daniel Cornwall
Date: 2009 Juneau
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: English