Alaska State Library – Historical Collections Finding Aids

Abstract

A.C. Anger left Auburn, Indiana with equipment for Bartel's Tin Manufacturing Company's tin mines in Tin City, Alaska on April 16, 1904. The equipment was moved by rail to Seattle when it was loaded onto the SS Tacoma and off-loaded at Nome. Barges were used to-get the freight from Nome to Tin City, a mining camp on the Bering Sea, northwest of Nome. Included in the album are photographs of Tin City, the T.T.M.C. assay office, mining activities, miners, Eskimos, A.C. Anger and W.C.J. Bartels and other people.

Dates

1904

EAD

PCA0231

Extent

100 Photographic Prints

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This album was purchased in 1984 from Michael Heaston, a book dealer in Austin, Texas.

General

Trip to Tin City, Alaska

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding aid for the A. C. Anger Photograph Collection, 1904
Status: In Progress
Author: ArchivesSpace finding aid by: Sandy Johnston 2019 May ; Inventory added by: Sandy Johnston
Date: 2020 April
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: English