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Collection Name	Rivenburg, Lawyer and Cora Photograph Album. 1910-1914 (bulk)
Identifier	UAF-1994-70-168
Title	Mail carrier leaving for down river
Description	Title from caption. Photograph of the mail carrier leaving Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads : "At the right is the mail carrier leaving the village bound down river. Before we came mail was delivered thus once every four weeks during the winter. This service was discontinued just the winter previous, so we had no regular winter delivery. We got mail when the Indians went for whisky at Christmas time and whenever a traper came from Rampart."
Creator	Rivenburg, Lawyer
Subject.TGM	Dog teams Dogsledding Letter carriers Villages Winter Rivers
Location	Stevens Village (Alaska)
Region	Interior Alaska
Time Period	1896 to 1913
Date.original	1912 - 1914
Type	Collection Image (Photographs)
Ordering & Use	For information on ordering and using this material: http://library.uaf.edu/order-photos
Holding Institution	Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.
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