Image shows time-lapsed photograph of the progress of the sun on the shortest day of the year, December 21st, in Nome, Alaska. Sunrise noted as 10:25am, and sunset at 1:35pm, though no year noted.
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title taken from caption. "The sun at its highest point on the shortest day in the year. Noon Dec 21 - 98. From San Jose cabin." Photographer: P.S. Hunt, photo No. 106.
Cataloguer's note: Hunt had lived in San Jose California for eight...