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: Eugene Tetinek Album

COLLECTION NUMBER: B2012.016

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Dates: 1932-1944

Extent: 391 items, 1.25 linear feet

Language and Scripts: The collection is in English.

Name of creator(s): Eugene Tetinek

Administrative/Biographical History:
Eugene Tetinek was born June 27, 1905, in Bern, Switzerland. He emigrated to Ohio in 1912,
and in 1932 he traveled to Alaska in search of work. He spent two years in Fort Yukon, then
moved to the Marshall area to work in the mining industry. He briefly lived in Mountain
Village, and worked as a janitor at the hospital there. From 1946-1956 he lived in Russian
Mission. During World War II, he served with the 11th
/ Air Force Rescue Squadron. In 1956, he
again moved to Marshall where he operated a grocery store. In 1980, he relocated to
Anchorage. Tetinek died March 8, 1996.

Scope and Content Description:
The collection consists of one photo album, measuring 15 x 11 inches, containing 391 black-
and-white photographs of Interior Alaska, primarily towns along the Yukon River, taken
between 1932 and 1940. Also included are photos from Tetinek’s service with the 11th
/ Air
Force Rescue Squadron during World War II, during which time he participated in the recovery
of a downed C-47 near Mt. McKinley.

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, though paper is brittle.

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:
Eugene Tetinek Album, Anchorage Museum, B2012.016

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Acquisition and Appraisal Information
Donated by Susan Chan and Phillip Johnson in July 2012.

Processing Notes
One photo removed from album before receipt. One page loose at time of receipt, and several
cracking. Tape repairs made by family before donation.

RELATED MATERIALS
B1995.014 Eugene Tetinek Collection

SUBJECTS
Tetinek, Eugene, 1905-1996
Crosson, Joe, 1903-1949
Beach, Rex, 1877-1949—Homes and haunts
Marsh, George, 1876-1945
Pilcher, George M., 1864-
Browne, Nathan C., 1895-1979
Dayville Cannery
United States. Army Air Forces--Search and rescue operations
Alice (River steamer)
Mildred (River steamer)
Discoverer (Ship)

Kasilof (Ship)
Yukon (Steamboat)
Nenana (Ship)
Aircraft accidents—Alaska
World War, 1939-1945--Search and rescue operations—Alaska
Gwich’in Indians
Yupik Eskimos—Alaska
Log cabins
Rural health services—Alaska
Tuberculosis--Treatment--Alaska
Frontier and pioneer life—Alaska
Gold mines and mining—Alaska
Aeronautics—Alaska
Airplanes—Alaska
Air mail service—Alaska
Fort Yukon (Alaska)
Circle (Alaska)
Beaver (Alaska)
Purgatory (Alaska)
Rampart (Alaska)
Tanana (Alaska)
Nulato (Alaska)
Nenana (Alaska)
Kaltag (Alaska)
Mountain Village (Alaska)
Marshall (Alaska)
Seward (Alaska)
Hoonah (Alaska)
Wrangell (Alaska)
Knik Glacier (Alaska)
Eagle Glacier (Anchorage, Alaska)
Muldrow Glacier (Alaska)
Eldridge Glacier (Alaska)
McKinley, Mount (Alaska)
Denali National Park and Preserve (Alaska)
Iliamna Lake (Alaska)
Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska)
Porcupine River (Yukon and Alaska)
Little Black River (Alaska)
Tanana River (Alaska)
McNeil Creek (Alaska)
Willow Creek (Alaska)
Innoko River (Alaska)
Eagle River (Anchorage, Alaska)

Knik River (Alaska)
Eklutna River (Alaska)
Ship Creek (Anchorage, Alaska)
Tazimina River (Alaska)

Detailed Description of the Collection
 1 — Sept. 15, 1932 drifting down the river with Bill
 2 — Bill O’Conner & the moose I killed near Fort Yukon
 3 — Drying salmon at Circle Sept. 15, 1932
 4 — 4 days work [cut timber]
 5 — 7 days work [cut timber]
 6 — steam boat wood
 7 — this is how the wood looks before it is cut
 8 —.10 - Break-up on the Yukon May 17, 1933
 11 —.13 – The hole [sic] country is flooded at this time of the year because the ice jams
 14 — Cabin where I stayed during break-up
 15 — Stuff on top of cabin during flood
 16 — Marooned for the day on top of the cabin
 17 —.18 – Water around the cabin
 19 — Wash day on the Yukon
 20 — Neils Peterson & his garden
 21 — Cabbage June 24, 1933
 22 — His horse
 23 — Same cabbage July 1
 24 — Same again July 23
 25 — Freighting on the Porcupine R. the rate is 5 [cents] a lb. from Fort Yukon to Old Crow
 26 — Captain Healy Old Crow trader
 27 — Making a mulligan
 28 — Bluffs on the Porcupine River
 29 — Rufuss [sic; Gwich’in boy]
 30 — Porcupine River [Page heading:] Old Crow, Yukon Territory, Canada Aug. 1933
 31 — R.C.M.P. Barracks
 32 — Teepee
 33 — Indian women doing beadwork
 34 — New dance hall
 35 —.36 – Old Crow natives
 37 — Part of Fort Yukon
 38 — Diging [sic] cellar & putting [sic] dirt on roof
 39 — Old buffalo [sic] head
 40 — Camping
 41 —.42 – The Hudson’s Bay Co. was at Fort Yukon from 1840 to 1860 [grave markers of Antoine Hoole and Eric Wards]
 43 — Camping
 44 — Joe Peter [prisoner]
 45 — The guard
 46 — Ezious James [prisoner]
 47 — Mending his shoes [man behind bars]
 48 — Prisoners on the wood pile
 49 — Thinking it over [man behind bars]
50 — [three Native women in front of log cabin with small sled, possibly holding child; at AFN 2013, woman at left identified as Julia Peter; sled identified as moose hide and wood toboggan with Hudson Bay blanket; location identified as Fort Yukon. At AFN 2016, woman in center identified as Lena Albert]
 51 — Julia Lulu
 52 — Owl
53 — Fort Yukon natives [two men outdoors, one holding child, second child in sled with elaborate sled bag, dog tied at right; at AFN 2013, man at right tentatively identified as Clifton Carroll; in 2016, Fort Yukon residents denied this was Clifton. At AFN 2016, man tentatively identified as Clarence Alexander]
 54 — Bob Stasy
 55 — Loon
 56 — Winters meat supply
 57 — Cabin where I spent the winter of 33 & 34 on Little Black River
 58 — 20 caribou in each pile
 59 — Sept. 1st 1933 [man wielding hatchet over pile of caribou carcasses]
 60 — [log cabin in winter]
 61 — Little Black River
 62 — Trappers outfit
 63 — Jerry Jones
 64 — Just a pup
 65 — Pete Howe leaving for his trap line
 66 — Mail plane Ft. Yukon
 67 — Julius Martin
 68 — March 1934 [man in fur parka]
 69 — Ha! I just got a new camera [man from .68, with two Native women]
 70 — Trail through the woods
 71 — Egil Salversten
 72 — His cabin
 73 — Pinky [boy standing in front of ski plane]
 74 — Going to the Porcupine River
 75 — Waiting for the mail plane
 76 — My trail to Little Black R.
 77 — Mail plane
 78 —.80 – Pete Howe’s dogs
 81 — Last mail before break-up
 82 — Tough going May, 1934 [man with dog sled]
 83 — Breakup on the Yukon R. May 19, 1934
 84 — Breakup on the Porcupine River May 26, 1934
 85 — The Howes
 86 — Fred’s cabin July 1st
 87 — Fred Bohmer
 88 — Mid-night sun on the Porcupine R.
 89 — Near Fort Yukon
 90 — Young camp robbers [gray jays]
 91 — A wood road
 92 — Young & old [gray jays]
 93 — [group of adults, possibly at auction, one woman carrying a baby in a sling on her back]
 94 — Bill O’Brion at the auction sale
 95 — [group of adults and children, possibly at auction]
 96 — Steamer Yukon
97 — Joe Crosson gassing up
 98 — Ft. Y. Mission – hospital in the background
 99 — [Fort Yukon church]
 100 — [Fort Yukon Roadhouse]
 101 — Part of Ft. Y.
 102 — Fort Yukon
 103 — Two darn good dogs
 104 — Doc. La Rue pulling out
 105 — [dog]
 106 — Just loafing
 107 — [four men standing in middle distance, with buildings behind]
 108 — Leaving Ft. Y. in my canvas canoe July 24, 1934
 109 — Black bear
 110 — Merrily paddling [sic] along
111 — Joe Develin
112 — Natives at Beaver
 113 — Purgatory
 114 — Rex Beach’s cabin at Rampart
 115 — Devil at Purgatory
 116 — Tanana
 117 — [scenery, Yukon River?]
 118 — Nulato cemetery there are about 300 of these graves
 119 — Nulato
 120 — Fish wheel for catching salmon
 121 —.122 – Evening on the Yukon
 123 — Holy Cross Mission
 124 — Mission kids
 125 — Russian Mission church
 126 — Inside [of church]
 127 — Cut banks
 128 — Going from Marshal [sic] to Menana [sic] on the Alice Sept. 29, 1934
 129 — Roy Hunter & part of his family
 130 —.132 – Part of McKinley Park Oct. 1934
 133 — Going down the Yukon on the Mildred May 27, 1935
134 — Getting ready for summer [Steamship Nenana]
135 — The Alice sliding down the ways
 136 — Nenana
 137 —.138 – Dip netting at the mouth of the Tanana River
 139 — Ice at Kaltag June 1st 1935
140 — Jim Douglas
 141 — Reindeer
 142 — Axel Rude toting his stuff to camp
 143 —.144 – Two ways of doing the wash
 145 —.146 – Boxes & giants ready to start sluicing
 147 — Sluicing
 148 — Picking rocks
 149 — A hard graft
 150 — There they go [rocks being dumped from scraper]
 151 — L. Carlston
 152 — Scraper coming out of the sump
 153 — Dumping
 154 — Mosquitos
 155 — Arrastra
 156 — Ronold Johnston
 157 — Bill Amovak
 158 — Prospect hole
 159 — June 1936 [man operating hose at hydraulic mining operation]
 160 — Porcupine
 161 — Cabin where I spent the winter of 1935 & 36 – McNiel [sic] Creek
 162 — Alaskan water system two standard oil can a yoke & a strong back
 163 — Soda Spring
 164 — Axel Johnson & his pups
165 — Axel making a fish net
 166 — Doc. Corthell operating
 167 — Mountain Village hospital
 168 — Ready to sever the appendix
 169 — He had his eye taken out
 170 —.174 – All of these kids have T.B. of the bone they are all in plaster casts
 175 — Monument on hill
 176 — Mountain Village Jan. 1937
 177 — Eskimo bath house
 178 — Mrs. Joe Jean from Goodnews Bay
 179 — Eskimo kids
180 — His [Native minister’s] wife [woman wearing print parka with fur ruff standing outdoors; cf. .184. same woman identified as “Mrs. Wilson” in B1995.014.56.6; location and date given as Mountain Village, 1935, in B1995.014.59.4. At AFN 2015, identified as Minnie Gonagnan, wife of Wilson Gonagnan]
 181 — Pilot call
 182 — March 1937 [man on skis]
 183 — George Marsh the commissioner at Marshall
184 — Native minister [Wilson, Mountain Village, 1935; cf. .180; at AFN 2015, identified as Wilson Gonagnan]
 185 — Climbing up [man ascending snowy hill]
 186 — Eddy [Yup’ik boy]
 187 — Tough going May 6, 1937
 188 — Bert Niely [sic] the marshall [sic]
 189 — His team
 190 — Young porcupine
 191 — R. Hunter & Mauranzy
 192 — May 29, 1937 [porcupine]
 193 —.195 – The 1937 way of picking & washing rocks
 196 — Pushing up dirt
 197 — Dragline
 198 — [bulldozer]
 199 — Clean-up day
 200 — Taking out the riffles
 201 — Stirring it up
 202 — Scooping it up
 203 — Disgusted only 9,000 [ounces?]
204 —.206 – Jim Douglas placer mining without machinery
 207 — Just paning [sic]
 208 — Tony
 209 — Squeak [man panning]
 210 — Sam Gulick
 211 —.212 – Stripping the muck off for next year
 213 — Harry Lander
 214 — Hewing logs
 215 — George Pilcher
 216 — Pilcher Mountain
 217 — One of the first men at Marshall [George Pilcher]
 218 —.220 – Willow Creek
 221 —.222 – Bill Rielys [sic] kids
 223 — John Fizhugh [sic]
 224 —.225 – Peter the mad Russian
 226 —.227 – [toddler]
 228 — Robin eggs
 229 — Young robins at Willow Creek June 1937
 230 — Gassing up
 231 —.232 – Flying with Nat Brown [sic] from Marshall to Anchorage 1937
 233 — Crossing the mountains
 234 —.235 – [Flight from Marshall to Anchorage; men in biplane]
236 — Going out on the M.S. Discoverer a 90 ft. boat from Anchorage to Seattle 1937
 237 — Seward
 238 —.239 – Seward gateway [marine channel]
 240 —.243 – The M.S. Kasilof sister ship to the M.S. Discoverer
 244 — With the greatest of ease [albatross]
 245 — Scooting along [albatross]
 246 — Three deep [albatrosses]
 247 — A seasick pup
 248 — Hoona [sic] a fishing town
 249 — [coastal view]
 250 — Leaveing [sic] Seattle May 1938
 251 — [ship’s flag]
 252 — S.S. Yukon
 253 — Steerage pasengers [sic]
 254 —.255 – Trolling [sic] for salmon at Wrangle [sic]
 256 — Power house
 257 — Dayvile [sic] canery [sic]
 258 — Gasing [sic] up at Flat [military aircraft?]
 259 — Marshall
 260 — Innoko River
 261 — Grenold Collins 1938
262 — Bashful [Native child hiding behind mother]
263 — Patsy and family [at AFN 2014, respondent noted presence of Patsy families on lower Yukon, at Marshall and Pilot Station]
 264 — Bill Amovak
265 — Marshall Native women [at AFN 2015, location suggested as Tukchuk area]
 266 —.269 – Marshall reindeer herd
 270 —.273 – Ragweeds on Pilcher Mountain
 274 —.276 – Drilling Nov. 1939
 277 — My cabin on Willow Creek 40 [degrees] below
 278 —.279 – Prospecting
 280 — Spring [cabins buried in snow]
 281 — [Prospecting]
 282 — Ski trail
 283 — Birch tree
 284 — Home brew
 285 — Jim and Ronald
 286 — Jim Johnston
 287 — Axel Rude
 288 — Erick Johnson
 289 — Placer mining Willow Creek 1940
 290 — Working nights
 291 — [scraper]
 292 — Bulldozer and rooter [Page heading:] 11th Air Force Rescue Sq.
 293 — P.F.C. Hartly
 294 — Pike – Lake Iliamna 1943
 295 — P.F.C. Gully
 296 — Lt. Bear
 297 — Around the camp fire
 298 — P.F.C. Larson
 299 — Rescue Sq. Sept. 1943
 300 — Cooking
 301 — Indian Creek
 302 — Lake Eklutna
 303 — Cutting trial [sic]
 304 — Redoubt Bay
 305 — A.A.F. crash boat
 306 — Knik River
307 — Eagle River
 308 — Eklutna River
 309 — Knik Glacier July 1943
 310 —.312 – Up on Knik Glacier
 313 — Eagle Glacier
 314 — Knik Glacier
 315 — Lake s. fork of Eagle R.
 316 — Mt. Redoubt
 317 — [log cabin and cache]
 318 — Head of Ship C[reek]
 319 — Cpl. Tetinek
 320 — Bear killed one [sic] Ship Creek
 321 — Packing one out [men carrying body in stretcher]
 322 — Lake Iliamna this lake is 40 x 90 miles long
 323 — Indian Creek Pass
324 —.328 – Tazminna [sic] River Sept. 1944 B-24 crashed here and we packed out six bodies
329 —.332 – Tazminna [sic] River Oct. 1944
 333 — Leaving McKinley Station Oct. 19, 1944
 334 — We got to mile 50 were [sic] our equipment was snowed in so most of us started [...]
 335 — Ranger cabin at Igloo Creek
336 — [...] To walk the other 42 miles to Wonder Lake
 337 — Looking at Mt. McKinley from mile 64
 338 — McGonagle [sic] Pass taken from Muldrow Glacier 5,700 ft. elv. Pass is 22 miles from Wonder L.
339 — Our main camp wass [sic] at this pass Mt. Mather in background a 12,000 ft. mt.
 340 — [airplane flying over mountains as men on ground look on]
 341 — T/S Larson skiing near the camp
342 — Mt. McKinley taken Nov. 1, 1944 20,300 ft. elv.
 343 — McKinley taken from Harper Glacier
 344 — Part of Muldrow Glacier this glacier is 40 miles long
 345 — 2 party meet Muldrow Glacier is 4 miles wide at this point
 346 —.349 – Small parts of Muldrow Glacier take [sic] 2 miles from McGonagle [sic] Pass
 350 —.353 – Still on the same glacier
 354 —.355 – Building an igloo at our camp
 356 — Sgt. Manuell [sic] and myself
 357 — Me again north peak of McKinley in background
 358 — Starting up to plane crash
 359 — Ice was falling from temperature ganges [sic – may mean ‘changes’?]
 360 — Weird looking country. 4 men [pointing out four small figures on mountainside]
 361 — Pvt. Secora taking a rest 9,000 ft. elv.
 362 — Near the top 10,000 ft. elv.
 363 — Top 11,000 ft. 2 men stayed here with a radio the rest of us droped [sic] down a 1,000 ft. to were [sic] plane was. McKinley in background
 364 — Our last camp 10,000 ft.
 365 — Camp taken from were [sic] plane was
 366 — The way plane look when we found
 367 — Plane hit here and slid down mt. Plane, camp [pointing out locations]
 368 — Diging [sic] it out
 369 — Eldridge Glacier taken from edge of camp site
 370 — Starting back up
 371 — Looking down on our camp it took 12 of us 7 hr. to climb the 1,000 ft.
 372 — Where we went up
 373 — Pulling packs hand over hand where the going was steep
 374 — Storm at Basin Camp 6,500 ft. elv.
375 — It slacks off
 376 — So we decide to pull out – 3 tents were blown down during the night
 377 — Packed up
 378 — Mt. Brooks Camp 4,500 ft. elv.
 379 — Packing it up storm is still blowing up in the valley
 380 — Going up Muldrow Glacier to McGonagle [sic] Pass with Jeep [snow machine pulling loaded sleds]
 381 — 33 of the men had gone ahead to Wonder Lake – Army C-60 took them out
 382 — 12 men left some go down McGonagle [sic] Pass to Wonder Lake with snow Jeep
 383 — The rest of us come out the hard way
 384 — Coming down Cashe [sic] Creek and heading for Wonder Lake. Mt. Brooks in background 12,000 ft. elv.
 385 — Going back to McKinley Station with equipment [Page heading:] Nov. 1944 on McKinley Trip
 386 — P.F.C. W. Harvey
 387 — P.F.C. E. Fenn
 388 — P.F.C. R. Huff
 389 — Cpl. E. Tetinek
 390 —.391 – Got into Army July 8, 1942. Picture taken 5 weeks later when I got out of book camp at Fort Richardson Alaska traind [sic] with 4th Inf. [2 blank leaves] - Clipping. “No bodies at C-47 wreck.” November 24, 1944 [no publication title] Guide updated: October 26, 2016