Verso: This was at Chilkat about 1895-1897. Sol Ripinsky's trading post in Haines, prior to the Klondike Rush. Sol is the man in the bowler hat to the right of center of picture. Later became collector of customers in Haines.
Verso: Building on left store (also stored items there), now gone. Machine shop on right where Peter Warner keeps & repairs boats now. Bunkhouses in back.
Title taken from image. Highly detailed totem poles rise from the ground in front of traditional houses. Several men and women in western dress stand in front of the one of the houses.