Alaska State Library – Historical Collections Finding Aids

Glacier, Alaska.

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-73

Scope and Contents

[close view of the face of a glacier with chunks of ice in the foreground]

Dates: 1886-1910

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

Waterfall, Masons Creek, Wrangell Narrows (opposite Pt. Lockwood beacon).

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-74

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

Cascade, Masons Creek, Wranell Narrows.

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-75

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

Valdez Flood, 1905., 1905

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-76

Scope and Contents

[wrecked houses sitting in the river]

Dates: 1905

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

U.S.S. YORKTOWN, 1908.

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-77

Scope and Contents

[same as no. 42]

Dates: 1886-1910

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

Alaska Wonder Mine, Ketchikan.

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-78

Scope and Contents

[building and forested hill; winter view]

Dates: 1886-1910

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

[Early Wrangell waterfront.]

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-79

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