George L. Harrington Photograph Collection, ca. 1909-1917
Scope and Contents
Alaska Boundary Survey: Yukon River, Porcupine River, Valdez, Ruby, Fort Yukon; also, mining activity on the Seward Peninsula, ca. 1909-1917.
Dates
- circa 1909-1917
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted.
Conditions Governing Use
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection must be discussed with the Librarian. Photocopying does not constitute permission to publish.
Historical
George Leavitt Harrington was employed by the U.S. Geological Survey as one of the Alaska Boundary Survey team. Two photograph albums were donated to the Historical Collections in 1973 by Mrs. George Harrington. The first album, a Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey scrapbook, documents the Alaska Boundary Survey of Valdez (1914), Ruby, Long, and Poorman (1915), Anvik, Andreafski region (1916) and Seward Peninsula (1917), from 1914-1917. A detailed inventory (typescript) is included at the beginning of the album. George Harrington collected or photographed the images which are mainly concerned with geological formations, the survey party and their camps.
The second album, "Alaskan Views, 1909 and 1912," contains captioned images of the Alaska Boundary Survey party, surveyors, surveyors' camps, settlements and villages along the Yukon River, placer mining scenes, river vessels, Natives, Athabaskans in birchbark canoes.
Extent
2 Volumes (1 box) : 479 photographs and postcards, most black and white
Language of Materials
English
Existence and Location of Copies
Some photographs in this collection have been digitized and are available to view via Alaska's Digital Archives.
Processing Information
The album photographs were numbered and described at the item level. A detailed inventory (typescript) is included at the beginning of the Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey scrap book album. Tissue interleaving was placed in the albums in June of 1989. Both albums were placed in an archival box.
General Inventory
Port Valdez area—15 photographs
Ruby district—21 photographs
Anvik-Andreafski region--66 photographs. Includes: Fort Yukon (4), Anvik (2), and many views of Yukon River and banks.
Yukon River, Tolstoi, Seward Peninsula--45 photographs. Includes: Fort Yukon (1), Tolstoi Mining Company (5), Holy Cross (2), Russian Mission (1), Marshall (2), Keewalik Mining Co. at Candle (5), Golovin (1), Teller (2), Pioneer Mining Co., Nome area (7).
Album 2: Alaskan Views 1909 and 1912, G.L. Harrington (photographs #280-466)
Boundary Survey in Yukon River region, 1909 and 1912. Includes: Survey crews (30), White River, Nation River, Porcupine River, riverboats SUZIE and SELKIRK, Fort Yukon (9), fish wheel near Ruby (1). Several photos of Asa [Baldwin].
- Title
- Finding aid for the George L. Harrington Photograph Collection, ca. 1909-1917
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Processed by: Staff ; ArchivesSpace finding aid by: Sandy Johnston
- Date
- 2019 June
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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