1904-1907, oblong folio with leather cover with buckskin ties, the front painted with polychrome floral motif, containing 118 silver gelatin and gelatin printing-out paper photographs, variously sized from 8" x 10" and smaller, mounted on black album pages. Most titled and signed in the negative by Goetze. A fine array, showing Inuit (ca 30 images) inhabitants, and the remainder scenes of in and around Nome and Homer, capturing the raw frontier nature of the towns: mining operations; ships trapped in ice; and the turn of the century mining boom that brought an onslaught of miners and tourists to Alaska. Goetze operated in Nome and southeastern Alaska and Siberia between about 1898-1908. In 1908 he sold his studio and moved to Seattle, where he operated the "Alaskan Studio." Affixed to the first page is a manuscript label signed by Louis J. Foley of St. Louis, Missouri, with the additional notation June 1904-October 1907. A great compilation of images. Condition: Mostly fine, one image broken into two pieces.
1904-1907, oblong folio with leather cover with buckskin ties, the front painted with polychrome floral motif, containing 118 silver gelatin and gelatin printing-out paper photographs, variously sized from 8" x 10" and smaller, mounted on black album pages. Most titled and signed in the negative by Goetze. A fine array, showing Inuit (ca 30 images) inhabitants, and the remainder scenes of in and around Nome and Homer, capturing the raw frontier nature of the towns: mining operations; ships trapped in ice; and the turn of the century mining boom that brought an onslaught of miners and tourists to Alaska. Goetze operated in Nome and southeastern Alaska and Siberia between about 1898-1908. In 1908 he sold his studio and moved to Seattle, where he operated the "Alaskan Studio." Affixed to the first page is a manuscript label signed by Louis J. Foley of St. Louis, Missouri, with the additional notation June 1904-October 1907. A great compilation of images. Condition: Mostly fine, one image broken into two pieces.
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