Box 1
Content Description
The collection consists of photos taken by Mr. Stanley and collected by Beatrice during her marriage to Mr. Mason. Images include gold mining, dredges, freighting and activities at Forty Mile, Goldstream, Shushana, Fox, etc, 1904-1929. Also included is Part II of Return to the Frontier, by Beatrice Stanley. This part of Mrs. Stanley's autobiography describes the Mason’s life 600 miles up the Porcupine River.
Dates
- 1904-1929
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is unrestricted.
Extent
1 Photographic Prints ((By Subject) 1 – 3 Fairbanks Dredges 4 – 15 Forty Mile 16 – 29 Goldstream 30 – 40 Mammoth Creek 41 – 66A Miller House/Berry Dredge 67 – 68 Ruby 69 – 82 Shushana/Bonanza City 83 – 106 T.E.C. Dredge, Fox 107 - 109 Walker Fork 110 - 115 Fairbanks, McCarthy, Circle Hot Springs, & Circle City 116 – 125 Panning Gold, Mail Service, Roadhouses, White Pass Stage & Brower Stage [#113 & 116 - Notes from Pat Oakes 5/11/83] 113. Bayless family Christmas at Circle City, 1921 116. US Mail – Fairbanks-Circle Trail 4/25/24. Mail reached Deadwood Post Office 4/26/24. Carrier E. Sherman, according to our postal records. 126 – 139 Trail & Freighting (Whiskey Hill, White River, Nizina Glacier, Skolai Trail & Chisana 140 – 160 People [#141, 142, 145, 150 - Notes from Pat Oakes 5/11/83] [#143, 144 - Notes from Norman Sather 1/11/01, who grew up on this property] 141. l to r front row: Albert Kelzer (standing), unknown (seated), Pete Bloom (seated, hat off) 142. Otto Bayless seated on left 143. First gold bucket-lined dredge in Alaska. It was disassembled in Stewart River, Canada and reassembled in Fairbanks Creek. 144. Crew house for dredge.] 145. Roadhouse at Franklin, Alaska – was owned by John & Ellen Roberts, parents of Alice R. Bayless (of Copper Center) 150. Row 1: Irene Johnson, Isabel Eagan (Richards), Dean(?) Stanley, Katie Eagan Middle: Edgar Johnson, Back: Jennivieve Parker, Carl Parker, Stanley Boy, Fred Parker (?), Jack Eagan )
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids Repository
PO Box 110571
Juneau AK 99811-0571 US
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