REFERENCE CODE: AkAMH

REPOSITORY NAME:
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
Bob and Evangeline Atwood Alaska Resource Center
625 C Street
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: 907-929-9235
Fax: 907-929-9233
Email: resourcecenter@anchoragemuseum.org

Guide prepared by: Sara Piasecki, Photo Archivist

TITLE: Claire Rattey Fitzgaireld Photographs

COLLECTION NUMBER: B2005.026

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Dates: 1959-1960, 1967

Extent: 19 items

Language and Scripts: The collection is in English.

Name of creator(s): Claire Rattey Fitzgaireld

Administrative/Biographical History:
Claire Rattey was born in Rhode Island in 1934. She was educated at the Rhode Island College
of Education (bachelor of education, 1956) and University of Alaska Anchorage (master of
education, 1972) She worked as a schoolteacher in Kake during the 1959-1960 school year,
and in Anchorage schools from 1960-1981. In 1966, she married Joseph B. Fitzgaireld. She died
in Anchorage in March 2014.

Scope and Content Description:
The collection consists of 11 black-and-white (.1-11) and 8 color (.12-19) photographs of
students and scenes in Kake, taken during the 1959-1960 school year and then on a week-long
vacation in 1967.

Arrangement: Not applicable


CONDITIONS GOVERNING ACCESS AND USE


Restrictions on Access: The collection is open for research use.

Physical Access: Original items in good condition.

Technical Access: No special equipment is needed to access the materials.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use:
The Anchorage Museum is the owner of the materials and makes available reproductions for
research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the
Anchorage Museum before any reproduction use. The Anchorage Museum does not
necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission
for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.

Preferred Citation:
Claire Rattey Fitzgaireld Photographs, Anchorage Museum, B2005.026

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Acquisition and Appraisal Information
Donated by Claire Rattey Fitzgaireld in 2005.


SUBJECTS
Education—Alaska
Kake (Alaska)

Detailed Description of the Collection
 1 — The whole gang, 2, taken behind school, Kake, AK [school children posed outdoors; print date Nov. 59]
 2 — “New town” from the dock, Kake, AK [distant view of waterfront, small boat in water; print date Nov. 59]
3 — My boys! 5 th & 6 th grades, Tyrone, Donald, Leslie, David A., Harry, Richard, Dennis, Darryl, Patrick, Kake, AK, spring of 1960 [school children posed outdoors; print date Nov. 59. At AFN 2013, boys identified as (front) Patrick Bean Jr, (left to right) Leslie Williams, David Aceveda, Donald James, Harry Berkeley, Richard Thomas, Dennis Jackson, Darryl Bean, (rear) Tyrone Bean]
4 — My girls! 5 th & 6 th grades, Arlene, Mardell, Hattie, Cheryl, Diane, Phyllis, Janice, Mary, Darlene, Carol, Marilyn, Kaylene, Joyce, Kake, AK, spring of 1960 [school children posed outdoors; print date Nov. 59. At AFN 2013, girls identified as (front row left to right) Marilyn Rose Aceveda, Kaylene Davis Bean, Joyce Johnson, (second row) Arlene Wilson Shields, Mardell Skeek Tyone, Hattie Dalton, Cheryl Rose, Diane Kadake Wilson, Phyllis Friday, Janice Jackson Johnson, Mary Carlson, Darlene Jackson Billingsley, Carolyn Grant]
 5 — Front street looking south from the quarters, Kake, AK [street scene with houses, utility poles; print date Nov. 59]
 6 — Salvation Army quarters, Kake, AK [house exterior; print date Nov. 59]
 7 — “Old town” from the dock, white building is Bell’s General Store, next to it is the show hall, Kake, AK 1959 [distant view of waterfront; print date Nov. 59. “Quarters” written on left of print]
 8 — Looking down our dock while part of the fleet was in, plane float is at the right (Kake Airport), Kake, AK [view down dock to fishing boats; print date Nov. 59]
9 — Taken on the school porch at noon, Kake, AK [girls posed on porch; print date Nov. 59. At AFN 2013, girls identified as left to right Thelma James, Carolyn Grant, Regina Thomas, Joanne Kadake, ?, Pauline James]
 10 — Looking north up Front Street, at the end is the teacherage where I should have stayed, Kake, AK [street scene with houses, utility poles; print date Nov. 59]
 11 — View from the quarters looking past the decaying old dock to the new dock, Kake, AK [print date Nov. 59]
 12 — Bob Normand, one of the surveyors, and the mallard he had just finished off by slamming it against the log in the background, Kake, AK, 1959 [duck hunter standing outdoors; print date Nov. 59]
 13 — Kake sailing south [distant view of village from water; print date Nov. 59]
 14 — Grave island in Kake harbor where our dead are buried, Kake, AK [view of treed island from water; print date Nov. 59]
 15 — About 3 miles out of town past the canneries, 1-2-60, Kake, AK [view down road in winter]
 16 — Returning in the skiff after hunting in the forest you see, Kake, AK [view of shore from water; print date Nov. 59]
 17 — Joe & Claire Fitzgaireld spent a week in Kake visiting Sam & Shirley Jackson, summer 1967, Kake, AK [view of waterfront from docks at small boat harbor]
 18 — Kake, AK, summer 1967 [boats in small boat harbor, including Eunice, Illinois]
 19 — 1960 [small building on flatbed railcar with sign “Org. Village of Kake, Pt. McCartney, FWS 229”] Guide written: December 8, 2014