Collection Name	J. Bernard Moore Family Papers, Album #1
Identifier	UAF-1976-35-24
Title	Mastodon Tusks
Description	Title from caption. Photograph of J.B. Moore and P.E. Kern standing with three fossilized mammoth or mastodon tusks in front of the window of Mr. Kern's business. Caption reads : "No. 2." "Mastodon Tusks. (Weight 250 lbs. each) Exhumed from 75 feet below the surface of the ground on Hunker Creek-Klondike Dist. Yukon Territory." "The mastodon has been extinct for 6000 years. Copyright 1905 by P.E. Kern -- Gold and Silversmith - Skaguay Alaska." Written on the page : "3 Mastodon tusks, at left J.B. Moore at right P. E. Kern -- note white lettering."
Subject.TGM	Ivory Tusks Storefronts Window displays Men
Personal Name	Moore, Ben (James Bernard) Kern, P. E. (Peter)
Location	Skagway (Alaska)
Region	Southeast Alaska
Time Period	1896 to 1913
Date	1905
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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