Lewis V. Stanley Photograph Collection, 1904-1929
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.
Conditions Governing Use
Request for permission to publish or reproduce material from the collection should be discussed with the Librarian.
Biographical / Historical
In 1925 Beatrice Birmingham went to Fort Yukon, Alaska, to work at the hospital. She later married two pioneer Alaskans. In 1926, she married Willoughby Mason and traveled with him and his brother Reuben, 600 miles up the Porcupine River for winter fur trapping. Mr. Mason died in 1935 and Beatrice later remarried Lewis V. Stanley, a prospector who arrived in Alaska in 1897. He was in Nome in 1901, Chisana in 1913, and worked for several large mining companies throughout the North and Alaska. The Masons retired to Seattle and their home became a gathering place for former Alaskans, a service which grew to be known as "Alaskan Friends." Beatrice's life in Alaska is described in the unpublished manuscript Return to the Frontier.
Extent
2 boxes : 160 black and white copy prints, Part II of an unpublished manuscript, newspaper articles
Language of Materials
English
Existence and Location of Originals
These photographs by Lewis V. Stanley are a selection of views reproduced from the Stanley-Mason Collection at the Tacoma Public Library. Also obtained from the Tacoma Public Library’s Stanley-Mason Collection is a copy of Part II of Return to the Frontier, by Beatrice Stanley. This extensive collection in Tacoma, Washington, includes both personal papers and photographs.
Existence and Location of Copies
Photographs digitized & available for viewing via VILDA: 072-82, 114, 117-118, 124-125, 127-131, 134-137, 139
Processing Information
Negatives were borrowed from the Tacoma Public Library’s Stanley-Mason Collection. Copy prints and microfiche were made from the negatives. The photographs in this collection have been grouped by subject and described individually. The photographs have been placed in Mylar. All items, including Part II of the unpublished manuscript Return to the Frontier, by Beatrice Stanley and the newspaper articles, were placed in pH-neutral folders and then into archival boxes.
- Title
- Finding aid for the Lewis V. Stanley Photograph Collection, 1904-1929
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Processed by: Staff ; Revised by: Staff 12/4/2003 ; Revised by: Jacki Swearingen, May 2017 ; Revised by: Sandy Johnston, Sept. 2020 ; Revised by: Jacki Swearingen, Sept. 2020 ; ArchivesSpace Finding aid by: Sara Bornstein.
- Date
- 2019 January
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids Repository
PO Box 110571
Juneau AK 99811-0571 US
907-465-2920
907-465-2925
907-465-2151 (Fax)
asl.historical@alaska.gov