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Sale 2708 - Lot 25

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ALASKA.) Group of Alaskan photographs and ephemera. 26 items, various sizes and conditions. Various places, circa 1900-1915
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"Biggest Deposit of Gold Ever Found in Alaska, Struck by the Corson Company." Letterpress broadside, 18½ x 6 inches, on newsprint; closed tears with tape repairs on verso, ½-inch closed tear to left edge. The officers of a gold mine near Nome boast of big discoveries, and urge the rapid purchase of their remaining stock. Includes the text of 5 testimonial letters received from Nome. No other examples traced in OCLC, at auction, or elsewhere. [Manchester, NH?], 13 August 1902.

Group of 8 views of the Klondike boomtown of Skagway. Silver prints, 2 x 6½ inches, on original plain mounts with two display holes punched on each side; minor wear. Four of these professional-quality images show the buildings of Skagway's downtown, two show the harbor, and one shows a few shacks on the outskirts of town. One shows the steamer Humboldt at the dock; it began regular service from Seattle to Skagway in 1896. One of the closer views of downtown shows several visible store signs, including the Idaho Liquor House, Klondike Trading Company, and Yukon Outfitters. The same Klondike Trading Company building is visible in the distance in one of the farther views. These images are uncredited, and we have found no other examples. Skagway, AK, circa 1900.

Receipt on billhead of the Cape Nome Freight and Transportation Co., issued to Mrs. H.J. Martin for $8.00 "to secure . . . 2nd class passage from S.F. to Nome, Alaska on Steamer Portland, to sail on or about July 31st." San Francisco, CA, 25 July 1902.

Photograph by Dobbs, "Shore Ice at Nome," 8 x 10 inches; chipped at edges. 20 June 1904.

Group of 4 photographs by F.H. Nowell, each about 8 x 10 inches, with moderate wear and tape stains: "Residence of John Peterson, Nome," 14 October 1905; "Fink and Smith Returning from Polar Bear Hunt in the Arctic, Distance Travelled 1000 Miles," 1906; "First Ave., West, Nome," 1907; untitled photograph of a crowd in front of the Alaska Mercantile Company building, [Nome, 1 October 1906].

Uncaptioned photograph of a man with a dog team on a beach, 3¾ x 4½ inches.

Pair of printed postcards showing United States mail carrier Eli A. Smith and his team of sled dogs, who traveled from Nome to Washington, DC from 1905 to 1907, and were preparing to depart back for Nome. [1907].

Lomen Brothers, Real Photo postcard captioned "Along the Beach, After the Storm, Nome," 1913 (unused).

Blank stock certificate for the Nome Exploration Company, 1902.

Issue of "The Aurora," a surprisingly elaborate illustrated periodical issued by Nome High School. Volume 7, No. 1. 59 illustrated pages. Oblong 4to, 7¾ x 9½ inches, gilt pictorial wrappers, minor wear. Includes a glossary of Eskimo expressions, articles on "Dredging in Alaska" and "The Siberian Dog," and more. Nome, AK, May 1910.

Nowell. "Sullivan City, Alaska. Alder Creek in Foreground." 7½ x 9½ inches on original card mount; minor wear. Now a ghost town, south of Teller on the highway to Nome. Circa 1904.

E.A. Hogg. "Anchorage, Beginning of Government Railroad Construction in Alaska." 7 x 18 inches on 2 conjoined sheets, unmounted; full vertical fold, minor wear and moderate soiling. May 1915.

P.S. Hunt. "The Alace Mines Ltd., Shoup Bay, Alaska." 6 x 8 inches on original card mount; minimal wear. In a small bay a few miles west of Valdez. Undated.

Goetzman of Dawson. "Front Man on Bridge with $5000.00 in Gold Dust on His Back (Bonanza Creek)." 6¼ x 8 inches, unmounted; 2 x ½-inch loss to upper right corner. Undated.

Goetzman of Dawson. "No. 3, Last Chance." 5½ x 8 inches, mounted on album paper; unevenly trimmed. Undated.

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