Title from caption. Image that looks to have been cut from a poster or publication of Skookum Jim's Claim No. 1, Above Bonanza. Caption: This Claim proved to be quite valuabe, as high as $300 to the pan being taken out.
View of the remains of the boat "Skookum," which wrecked on the shore of Nome, Alaska in 1900. Men with a cart and a dog team, and a boat are visible on the beach in the foreground. More boats and people are visible in the background, and buildings...
Mary Alice Ferry Diener with man mistakenly identified as George Washington Carmack in Ketchikan, Alaska. George Washington Carmack died in 1922, seven years before picture was taken. From verso: "Aug. 16, 1929. Mary Alice with George Washington...
Cover: "Scrap-book, belonged to George Kostrometinoff ('Father Sergius') who was in the employ of the Russian gov't. and also the United States gov't.in the early days."
Contents: A [skookum] paper for Shaikes [Shakes], the Stickeen Chief, with comment on his character. Letter by Ed C. Hughes, purser, SS California, 1879 Dec. 28. Letter from I.S. Oakford, deputy collector of customs, Wrangell, Oct....
Papers focus on several Tlingits from Angoon, Admiralty Island, 1878-1911 when the Navy was in charge of the territory. Two letters and the "lost" note relate to the bombardment of Angoon by the Navy vessel U.S.S. Adams in 1882; also mentions the...
Contents: A [skookum] paper for Shaikes [Shakes], the Stickeen Chief, with comment on his character. Letter by Ed C. Hughes, purser, SS California, 1879 Dec. 28. Letter from I.S. Oakford, deputy collector of customs, Wrangell, Oct....