Alaska State Library – Historical Collections Finding Aids

Schr. VOLUNTEER, Capt. Ross.

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-57

Scope and Contents

[2-masted schooner; distant view]

Dates: 1886-1910

Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 300, Captain George H. Whitney Photograph Collection, 1886-1910

Masons Camp, Wrangell Narrows.

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-58

Scope and Contents

[log cabin and tent on forested beach]

Dates: 1886-1910

Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 300, Captain George H. Whitney Photograph Collection, 1886-1910

Sand Point, Alaska. S.S. DORA, 4-6-06., 1906-04-06

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-59

Scope and Contents

[view of houses on shoreline probably taken from the DORA, April 6, 1906] Thwaites

Dates: 1906-04-06

Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 300, Captain George H. Whitney Photograph Collection, 1886-1910

Masons Camp, Wrangell Narrows.

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-60

Scope and Contents

[log building on edge of forested beach; continues the right side of no. 58]

Dates: 1886-1910

Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 300, Captain George H. Whitney Photograph Collection, 1886-1910

Mt. Shushildon Vol. 15 Mi. to base.

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-61

Scope and Contents

[view across water to Shishaldin Volcano] Thwaites. Dark view.

Dates: 1886-1910

Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 300, Captain George H. Whitney Photograph Collection, 1886-1910

Masons Camp, Wrangell Narrows.

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-62

Scope and Contents

[log cabin at top of beach; continues the left side of no. 58]

Dates: 1886-1910

Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 300, Captain George H. Whitney Photograph Collection, 1886-1910

Castle Cape, Chignik, Alaska. S.S. DORA.

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-63

Scope and Contents

[view across water] Thwaites

Dates: 1886-1910

Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 300, Captain George H. Whitney Photograph Collection, 1886-1910

[Masons Camp, Wrangell Narrows. Men working on the end of a log building.]

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-64

Content Description From the Collection:

Captain Whitney's career with the Inspection Service took him to many Alaskan ports. The collection of 184 photographs covers numerous coastal communities from Ketchikan to Golovnin Bay, including many views from the Aleutian Islands. There are also views of the Tanana River, hunting and fishing, canneries, ships, Russian Orthodox churches, a voyage on the S.S. DORA in 1907, and totem poles.

Dates: 1886-1910

Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 300, Captain George H. Whitney Photograph Collection, 1886-1910