Beschreibung:

Leather album, 10.25 x 13.75 in., with gilt-imprinted title Alaska Views, and the name of the traveler who purchased the album, J.W. Thurston/ Seattle. The album contains 69 photographs, the vast majority of which are 7.5 x 9.5 in. silver gelatin prints by Albert Johnson, almost all titled in the negative and dated 1906-1908. Toward the end are some snapshots of Mr. Thurston and family, as well as 2 fold-out panoramas composed of multiple photographs, showing Nome (3 photographs, 8 x 10 in.) and Fairbanks (4). Johnson's photographs document a wide range of Alaskan life in the early 20th century. In addition to the standard town and mining views, there is a focus on community and social life, with subjects such as the 1908 Fairbanks Fourth of July celebration, a midnight baseball game on the summer solstice, the Fairbanks public school, salmon fishing, the Fairbanks to Valdez US Mail sleigh, and D.T Kennedy's pack train. Also a series of images of the fire that destroyed much of the city on May 22, 1906, and several photographs of Alaska natives, including both scenes from daily life and studio portraits. Provenance:Property of Another Consignor