Description on back in Russian with English translation: The very first church in Juneau, where all Christian communities too turns holding services. Built by Roman Catholic priests. Later passed into Presbyterian ownership. Afterward beer and soda...
Display includes a variety of Alaska Native artifacts; totem poles, masks, boats, paddles, and fishing implements. Probably photographed by Elbridge W. Merrill.
Flagpole is on left end of the building. Summer view. Butter came in barrels like that at corner of building. Locals used them for making misigaaq (seal oil) and mikigaq (fermented whale meat and blubber).
Four young men working with shoemakers' equipment, including sewing machine, hammers, clamps. Verso: Photographed by E.W. Merrill, Boston, Massachusetts.
L. to r.: Mrs. Spriggs, Harold Spriggs, Reverend Samuel Spriggs. Spriggs was the Presbyterian minister at Barrow, AK 1900. Image: "Yours sincerely, S.R. Spriggs and family."
Located at Fifth and Main, a winter scene with Mt. Juneau in the background; the building,occupied by the Governor between 1910 and 1925, was later torn down to make way for the new Capitol