Alaska State Library – Historical Collections Finding Aids

Unalaska, Alaska.

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-51

Scope and Contents

[view across channel to buildings and large, angular wharf at base of mountains] Thwaites

Dates: 1886-1910

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

[Crowd of people around three leashed bear cubs.]

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-52

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

S.S. DORA Passengers, 1907., 1907

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-53

Scope and Contents

[seven men and four women posed on deck, including two clergymen, possibly Russian Orthodox]

Dates: 1907

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

Wrangell, Alaska. March 1907., 1907-03

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-54

Scope and Contents

[view across water from beach] Worden

Dates: 1907-03

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

Japanese Sealer, Seized July 1907., 1907-07

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-55

Scope and Contents

[AIWO(?) TOKIYO at anchor at Unalaska]

Dates: 1907-07

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

[Native group in western dress; man at center holds painted woven hat].

Item — Box: PCA0300

Identifier: PCA0300-56

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