Box MS004-11-02
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St. Mark’s Mission, Nenana Alaska [15 page booklet, with 9 black and white photographs, hand written and typed text. Cover is listed as page 1.]
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Identifier: MS004-11-02-Booklet
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From the Collection:
A small handmade booklet about St. Mark's Episcopal Mission and boarding school, Tortella Hall in Nenana, Alaska. Original photographs illustrate the booklet and hand written and typed notations explain the contents. The book describes the Mission's work and the school that housed and instructed twenty-eight children of varying ages. Among the Athabascan children and youth pictured is Walter Harper, who was with Archdeacon Hudson Stuck on the 1913 ascent of Mount McKinley, and for whom...
Dates:
circa 1900
Tortella Hall by Moonlight [small, badly silvered sepia toned photo trimmed to be round, on cover of album]
Item — Box: MS004-11-02
Identifier: MS004-11-02-01
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[Title on cover by image: St. Mark’s Mission, Nenana Alaska] [this cover is page 1 of booklet]
Dates:
circa 1900
This little booklet is meant to tell you something about the work that the Church is doing at St. Mark’s Mission (Episcopal) Nenana Alaska. The name of the large boarding school is Tortella Hall. Here are housed and cared for, some twenty-eight children of varying ages. The group on the opposite page gives a picture of the larger boys: Beginning at the left they are as follows: John Esau, Justin [A? S? unknown], Justin Silas (the oldest boy in the Mission in point of age and responsibility), Walter Harper, Luke John, John Albert, Johnny Lige and Titus. A splendid group of young men [text describes album, then photograph on page 3]
Item — Box: MS004-11-02
Identifier: MS004-11-02-02
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[holograph text in browned ink on paper glued onto album page] [this is page 2 of booklet: St. Mark’s Mission, Nenana Alaska]
Dates:
circa 1900
Walter Harper fourth from left: “Harper Ridge” on Mt. McKinley named for him. [next sticker:] Walter was on 1913 ascent of McKinley in [next sticker:] party led by Archdeacon Stuck [sepia toned photo of 8 native boys, the initials W.H. with an arrow pointing to the 4th boy from the left. Text from typed stickers below photo.]
Item — Box: MS004-11-02
Identifier: MS004-11-02-03
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[The photograph is surrounded and partly covered by more typed labels, reading:] Archdeacon Stuck, booklet re: “St. Mark’s Episcopal Mission” near Nenana, Alaska; “Tortella Hall”, a boarding school for some 28 children. The Archdeacon died in 1920 at Fort Yukon; his [next sticker:] labours with the Indians began about 1904. He ascended Mt. McKinley 1913. [next sticker:] The Rev. Hudson Stuck, archdeacon of the Yukon, see obit. in NEW YORK TIMES Oct. 13, 1920, p. 15. [next sticker:] See...
Dates:
circa 1900
Here you see Julia and Julius just as they were when we took them into the Mission. Ragged little children both physically and morally. But it is for the saving of children such as these that the Mission was in part founded. And when one considers that one hundred dollars will support one of these children for a whole year, giving them home and food and clothing, to say nothing of the Christian training that comes of being in the Mission; when one thinks of this fact surely the conclusion must be that it is “worth while.” [text refers to two photographs on page 5]
Item — Box: MS004-11-02
Identifier: MS004-11-02-04
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[holograph text in browned ink on paper glued onto album page] [this is page 4 of booklet: St. Mark’s Mission, Nenana Alaska]
Dates:
circa 1900
[Photo of Young Native Alaskan girl posed in front of log wall; Julia, per text on page four. Sepia-toned oval full-length outdoor portrait; image badly silvered.]
Item — Box: MS004-11-02
Identifier: MS004-11-02-05a
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[one of 2 portraits on page 5 of booklet: St. Mark's Mission, Nenana Alaska; child identified by the text on page 4. Two typed stickers above the photos seem to have nothing to do with the portraits and say:] The remains of Archdeacon Hudson Stuck were interred in the Indian cemetery at Ft. Yukon, his own request; the pallbearers were members of the Native Council, who bore him a quarter of mile to the grave; also a mem’l. service was held in Cathed’l. of St. John the Divine, N.Y. City,...
Dates:
circa 1900
[Photo of Very young Native Alaskan boy standing in front of trees cut down & laying on the ground; Julius, per text on page four. Sepia-toned oval full-length outdoor portrait; image somewhat silvered.]
Item — Box: MS004-11-02
Identifier: MS004-11-02-05b
Scope and Contents
[one of 2 portraits on page 5 of booklet: St. Mark's Mission, Nenana Alaska; child identified by the text on page 4. Two typed stickers above the photos seem to have nothing to do with the portraits and say:] The remains of Archdeacon Hudson Stuck were interred in the Indian cemetery at Ft. Yukon, his own request; the pallbearers were members of the Native Council, who bore him a quarter of mile to the grave; also a mem’l. service was held in Cathed’l. of St. John the Divine, N.Y. City,...
Dates:
circa 1900
Here is the most recent picture of the Mission children with Miss Farthing and Mrs. Ferguson with them. Miss Farthing is in charge and Mrs. Ferguson is the teacher. It is too bad that we have only six sweaters with “S.M” on them, for those boys who have them are greatly envied. Here is some work for interested friends. Sweaters are ideal for those boys. [penciled in at bottom:] St. Mark’s Episcopal Mission and School (Nenana Alaska) [text refers to photograph on page 7]
Item — Box: MS004-11-02
Identifier: MS004-11-02-06
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[holograph text in browned ink on paper glued onto album page.] [this is page 6 of booklet: St. Mark’s Mission, Nenana Alaska]
Dates:
circa 1900
[sepia toned photo of a large group of Native Alaskan children with 4 or 5 adults among them, standing outside in the snow. Sticker on page below the right side says “Walter Harper” in pencil, with an arrow pointing up. Identification of teacher and “in charge” from page 6 is Mrs. Ferguson and Miss Farthing.]
Item — Box: MS004-11-02
Identifier: MS004-11-02-07
Scope and Contents
[this is page 7 of booklet: St. Mark’s Mission, Nenana Alaska; page 6 text refers to this photograph] [another sticker indicates neg # 01-2253]
Dates:
circa 1900
Walter Harper and Timothy: two bright boys who came up from Tanana last Fall
Item — Box: MS004-11-02
Identifier: MS004-11-02-08
Scope and Contents
[sepia toned photo of an older boy or young man holding up a small boy wearing a sweater with the letters SM on it, standing in the snow. Holograph caption in brown ink below.] [Typed sticker also on page:] Walter Harper is mentioned in New York Times Oct. 13, 1920, p. 15, Archdeacon Stuck’s obit.; also New York Times Apr. 10, 1932, letter to editor. [this is page 8 of booklet: St. Mark’s Mission, Nenana Alaska] [another sticker indicates neg # 01-2254]
Dates:
circa 1900