Location on shelf: CS 29, A1
Completed by JD; 2/12/2009
COCHRAN COLLECTION. Photos. .33 cu. ft. 1914 - 1927.
B81.164. Inventory.
Commodore Claude S. Cochran was born on October 28, 1865. He was listed as an officer in the
Revenue Cutter Service in 1891. Cochran was the Commanding Officer of U.S.R.C. Bear from
1914 to 1916, 1921 to 1924, and 1926 to 1927. In 1925, Cochran was in charge of chasing rum-
runners at the San Francisco Base. The Bear was used as a mail boat, supply ship, hospital,
police department and court for the isolated northern settlements. Cochran retired as
Commodore on October 28, 1929. At that point, all officers had to retire on their 64th
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birthday.
Cochrane died in January 1935.
The collection consists of 126 photographs and 41 negatives. The subjects of the photographs
include portraits of Claude Cochran, Cochran’s wife and dogs, Tak-puk (a Barrow chief), Tog-
ar-uk, Seg-a-vun, Jim and Eleanor Allen and their two children Alice and Kate, Russell N.
Hendee, Alfred M. Bailey, Jawn Peter, Arthur Nagozruk, and rescued members of the Karluk.
Other images include the U.S.R.C. Bear at sea and among ice, Emma Harbor in Siberia, Marshall
City, Wainwright, Cross Island, reindeer herding, the Diomede Islands, Demarkation Point, Cape
Prince of Wales, and Cape Lisborne. The collection is arranged in number order in one album.
This collection was purchased by the Anchorage Museum in 1981.
Location on shelf: CS 29, A1
Completed by JD; 2/12/2009
COCHRAN COLLECTION. Photos. .33 cu. ft. 1914 - 1927.
B81.164. Inventory.
INVENTORY
BOX 1
Series 1: Photographs
Album 1
B81.164.1 – 126