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: Will Streeter Collection

COLLECTION NUMBER: B1985.061

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Dates: circa 1916-1918

Extent: 1 box; 0.2 linear feet

Language and Scripts: The collection is in English.

Name of creator(s): Wilfred Streeter, John E. Thwaites, Winter & Pond

Administrative/Biographical History:
Nothing was known about Wilfred Streeter at the time of processing.

Scope and Content Description:
The collection consists of 120 black-and-white snapshots and postcards of trips made up the
Inside Passage, down the Yukon River, and over several inland trails, in the period 1916-1918.
For more information, see Detailed Description of Collection below.

Arrangement: Loosely arranged by location


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:
Will Streeter Collection, Anchorage Museum, B1985.061

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Acquisition and Appraisal Information
Donated by Wilfred Streeter in October 1985.


SUBJECTS
White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm)
Yukon (Steamer)
Canadian (Steamer)
Northwestern (Ship)
Railroads—Alaska
Ships—Alaska
Transportation—Alaska
Roadhouses—Alaska
Dogsledding—Alaska
Glaciers—Alaska
Agriculture—Alaska
Alaska—Description and travel
Inside Passage
Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska)
Chitina (Alaska)
Circle (Alaska)
Copper Center (Alaska)
Fairbanks (Alaska)
Fort Yukon (Alaska)
Juneau (Alaska)
Ketchikan (Alaska)
Nome (Alaska)
Skagway (Alaska)
Tanana (Alaska)


Detailed Description of the Collection
 1 — [photographic postcard. Color guard parading down city street in unidentified location, with spectators, automobiles, and businesses including Hotel Williams, Rome Hotel, Boyd’s Cigars, Roedel, not Alaska]
 2 — [photographic postcard. Marching band parading down city street in unidentified location, with spectators, automobiles, and businesses including Hotel Williams, Rome Hotel, Boyd’s Cigars, Roedel, not Alaska]
 3 — [distant view of steamship under way, Inside Passage]
 4 — [distant view of steamship or sailing ship at anchor, Inside Passage?]
 5 — [ship under way in Inside Passage, with large wake]
 6 — [scenic with glacier, Inside Passage]
7 — [distant view of unidentified cannery complex in winter, with docks, buildings, railroad cars in center background, mountains in distance]
 8 — [tourists in summer clothing playing in sand near glacier terminus, possibly Mendenhall Glacier. Cf. .55]
 9 — [view of glacier from water, identified as Grand Plateau Glacier, Lituya Bay]
 10 — Grand Plateau Glacier, Lituya Bay, Alaska [view from water]
 11 — [distant view of Juneau from Gastineau Channel, Alaska Steamship Company docks at right]
 12 — [bird’s eye view of Ketchikan docks, with people parading on docks at right, small boats in harbor]
 13 — [bird’s eye view of Ketchikan buildings in winter, sign for Armory at right, water in background]
 14 — [parade on Juneau street, with man riding automobile in front, passing Seward Building and businesses including Hotel Arctic, Palace Theatre]
 15 — [nuns wearing habits, two with crosses on their chests, parading down Franklin Street in Juneau past spectators and businesses including Butler Mauro Drug Co.]
 16 — Juneau, Alaska. Thwaites 3007 [photographic postcard. View of city waterfront from Gastineau Channel, Pacific Coast Steamship Co. docks at left]
 17 — [view of Juneau waterfront from Gastineau Channel]
 18 — Juneau, Alaska. Thwaites 1795 [photographic postcard. Bird’s eye view of city buildings, waterfront at right]
 19 — “Northwestern”, Juneau, Alaska, Jan. 22, 1916. W.P. Co. [photographic postcard. People on decks of ship covered in ice, other people on dock at right]
20 — [White Pass & Yukon Route train stopped on railroad tracks outside Keller Bros. Drug Co., Skagway]
 21 — [railroad locomotive and cars stopped outside warehouse or work yards in winter, deep snow around buildings, four people at left, mountain in background]
 22 — [view down railroad tracks in winter, train in distance, snow banks on both sides of track, mountains in background]
 23 — [same as .22]
 24 — [man wearing cardigan sweater and driving cap, possibly holding camera, standing on train car in winter, sacks piled at left]
 25 — [Circle, with Principal Saloon, Northern Commercial Co. Missing as of 2014]
26 — [view of Circle from Yukon River, with Northern Commercial Co. Copy neg only as of 2014]
 27 — [view of Fort Yukon from Yukon River, with log buildings, church at left]
 28 — [view of Fort Yukon from Yukon River, with cache and canoes in foreground, driftwood along riverbank, church in distance at right]
 29 — [exterior of St. Stephen’s Hospital in Fort Yukon]
 30 — [St. Stephen’s Hospital as seen from Yukon River, with buildings at right, ladder up riverbank at left, hospital later called Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital]
 31 — [scenic of bluffs along Yukon River]
 32 — [view of shore from Yukon River boat, triangular marker in brush, possibly for gas line]
 33 — [scenic of sunset on Yukon River, with barge in foreground]
 34 — [paddle steamer riverboat with two barges on Yukon River]
 35 — [sternwheeler Yukon with barge on Yukon River]
 36 — [sternwheeler Canadian with barge on Yukon River]
 37 — [same as .36]
 38 — [view of Nenana from Yukon River, passengers lining dock, with buildings and hoisting machinery]
 39 — [exterior of St. James Episcopal Church at Tanana]
 40 — [two men camping in Interior Alaska, one man carrying backpack and rifle and smoking pipe, second man carrying rifle and leading horse, standing with dog next to small tent]
 41 — On the Brooks-Olnes Trail [exterior of Tatalina Roadhouse in winter, with freight pallet on skis parked outside]
 42 — [signs outside the Beaver Roadhouse on the Beaver-Caro Trail, reading “Beaver” and “Winter [?] government road to Chandelar, Caro, Coldfoot & Bettles,” dog yard in front of log building, drying racks at left]
 43 — [two men standing next to stagecoach on skis stopped outside log building, one man wearing necktie, identified as 18 Mile Roadhouse, also called Byler’s or Bergman’s, on Valdez- Fairbanks Trail]
 44 — “Dry Creek” Road House on Valdez Trail [exterior of multi-story roadhouse in winter, mile 21 of Valdez-Fairbanks Trail]
 45 — Willow Creek Roadhouse, Fairbanks Trail, Alaska [photographic postcard. Man posed with automobile outside log buildings]
 46 — Tonsina Roadhouse, Fairbanks Trail, Alaska [photographic postcard. Same automobile as in .45 parked outside lower Tonsina Roadhouse, man and three woman standing behind picket fence in front of two-story log building]
 47 — Kenny Lake Roadhouse, Fairbanks Trail, Aaa. [photographic postcard. Same automobile as in .45-.46 with top down parked outside flat-roofed two-story log building on Chitina- Fairbanks Trail]
 48 — [close-up of Kenny Lake Roadhouse entrance and sign in winter]
 49 — [two men standing next to automobile outside Kenny Lake Roadhouse in winter]
 50 — Copper Center [view down tracks in snow to log buildings and walled tent]
 51 — [view of log buildings and walled tent, two buildings with canvas awnings, same location as .50, identified as Gulkana]
 52 — Leaving Mier’s Road House, 125 miles north of Chitina on the Valdez Trail [Ed S. Orr Stage Co. mail sled stopped outside Meier’s Roadhouse in winter, driver wrapped in fur blankets, passengers in sled, woman standing at right]
 53 — [close-up of same sled as in .52, passengers in sled, two men in fur coats with backs to camera, possibly at Meier’s Roadhouse]
 54 — [woman and man wearing necktie standing in horse traces of Ed S. Orr Stage Co. sled stopped outside roadhouse in winter, sign at left for “Store and Road-House,” possibly Meier’s Roadhouse]
 55 — [passengers and driver posed with automobile with sign for “C.W. Young Company,” possibly Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau. Cf. .8, .67]
 56 — [six horse-drawn sleds pulling passengers and freight on Valdez-Fairbanks Trail in winter]
 57 — [similar to .56]
58 — [close-up of horse pulling sled with freight and passengers on Valdez-Fairbanks Trail in winter]
 59 — “Double-enders” at Yost’s, Valdez Trail [five sleds stopped on winter trail near Yost’s Roadhouse on the Valdez-Fairbanks Trail]
 60 — Mts. Sanford and Drum [winter scenic]
 61 — Along the Gulkana River, somewhere in Alaska [winter scenic]
 62 — Gulkana River, just below Copper Center [winter scenic, with cabin and caches in foreground]
 63 — [winter scenic of frozen river, possibly along Valdez-Fairbanks Trail]
 64 — [log building nearly buried in snow, identified as Yost’s Roadhouse]
 65 — [winter scenic, possibly along Valdez-Fairbanks Trail]
 66 — [man standing in grain field next to log cabin, possibly Copper Center area]
 67 — [Mendenhall Glacier, automobile parked in left foreground. cf. .55]
 68 — [building with bell on roof in cultivated field, possibly schoolhouse or church, low hills in distance]
 69 — [large barn or warehouse with wire-fenced pen at left, cut wood piled in front, other buildings in background]
 70 — [cut hay or other grain in field]
 71 — [man wearing driving cap, lace-up boots, and parka with fur trim standing outside building with large plate glass windows in winter, Hotel Chitina?]
 72 — [color guard and marching band on parade passing businesses and telegraph poles; identified by Mike Blackwell in 2011 as South Franklin Street in Juneau]
 73 — [men wearing badges, many wearing fur coats, parading past Fairview Hotel in winter, Nome]
74 — [Alaska Native men with drums and women wearing fur parkas performing for spectators near G.P. Goggin General Store in Nome; at AFN 2014, identified as King Islanders performing “bench dancing”]
 75 — [men on barge or fish scow, two preparing to deploy net, skiff on deck at right, log booms in water in background, forested hills in distance]
 76 — [musher with seven-dog team pulling sled with passenger in basket on winter trail. Cf. .78, .104]
 77 — [musher with five-dog team pulling sled with passenger in basket on winter trail, tripods along trail at left]
 78 — [same team as in .76]
 79 — [white woman wearing eyeglasses, knit cap, fur parka, and mittens standing outdoors in winter next to dog yard with three chained dogs, buildings in background, Fairbanks? cf. .117]
 80 — [men and women gathered on Cushman Street Bridge over Chena River for bridge dedication, Nordale Hotel in background at right, Fairbanks, 1917]
 81 — [automobile racing, blurred vehicle on track in foreground, spectators in automobiles and standing in field, man near track holding hand-lettered sign, Weeks Field, Fairbanks]
 82 — [similar to .81]
 83 — [close-up of Model T racing automobiles numbered 4 and 2 parked at Weeks Field, Fairbanks]
 84 — [exterior of log cabin, ladder to roof at left, caribou horns and American flag over door, wood pile at right]
85 — [fish camp on water, wooden boat on beach in front of drying racks, both open and covered, man standing next to covered rack or fish wheel at left, pine trees at right, low hills in distance]
86 — [bird’s eye view from riverboat of supplies being offloaded at village along river, conveyor belt at right, men gathered near piles of goods, buildings in background]
 87 — [two young Alaska Native boys near river dock. Cf. .88]
 88 — [young Alaska Native boys leaning on oil barrels near river dock. Cf. .87]
89 — [Athapascan woman standing next to smokehouse with spruce bark siding, small dog sitting up on wooden crate; at AFN 2016, location tentatively identified as Nulato area]
 90 — [close-up of dog on crate]
 91 — [dogs chained in dog yard on riverbank]
 92 — [woman kneeling down near Arctic fox in pen at fox farm. Cf. .109]
 93 — [distant view of three Arctic foxes in large enclosure at fox farm]
 94 — New Orleans, La., 6/14/16 [photographic postcard. Studio portrait of man wearing summer suit, bow tie, and straw boater hat. Possibly same man appears in .94-.106]
 95 — [man leaning against sign reading “White Pass & Yukon Route, Denver, Alaska, elevation 400 ft., trail from this point leads to Denver Glacier 3 ½ miles”]
 96 — On board SS Northwestern, en route from Cordova to Juneau, 2-18-18 [two men and two women standing on ship deck, life boat in background]
 97 — [same as .96]
 98 — Skagway, 7/17/18. F.K. Andrews, 130 S 7th St. [?] South, N. N. Mrs. Gunther scene [man smoking cigar posed leaning against decorative wooden fence in front of house]
 99 — W.T. Snowden, Timber Cruiser, G.L.O., Jackson, Mississippi, October 1916 [photographic postcard. Studio portrait of two men, one wearing suit, driving cap and bow tie, one wearing three-piece suit, necktie, and fedora hat]
 100 — [man standing in field, carrying backpack, rifle, and hatchet]
 101 — [white man wearing fur parka, mukluks, and mittens posed next to cabin in winter. Cf. .108, .112]
 102 — [white man wearing reindeer parka with walrus-tusk gussets, mukluks, mittens, and fur hat, posed next to fence and building in winter]
 103 — [man wearing coat, lace-up boots, and hat, possibly holding fur parka, posed next to log cabins in winter]
 104 — [man and woman posed with sled on winter trail, same woman as in .76, .78]
 105 — [man and woman ice skating on path shoveled out on frozen lake or river]
 106 — [man wearing fur coat standing next to double-ended sled carrying two passengers]
 107 — [man and three women posed outdoors in winter, women all holding fur muffs, picket fence in background]
 108 — [white man wearing fur parka, fur hat, mukluks, and mittens posed outdoors in winter, same parka and mukluks as in .101, .112]
 109 — [woman holding Arctic fox at fox farm. Cf. .92]
 110 — [young woman holding gold pan sitting on sluice box at mining operation]
 111 — [same as .110]
 112 — [white woman wearing fur parka, fur hat, mukluks, and mittens posed outdoors in winter, same parka and mukluks as in .101, .108, .115]
 113 — [woman wearing long coat, high-heeled shoes and shawl posed on ship deck next to life boat, possibly the S.S. Northwestern]
 114 — [woman wearing sailor dress and holding camera posed outside log cabin]
 115 — [white woman wearing fur parka, fur hat, mukluks, and mittens posed outdoors in winter, picket fences and buildings in background, same parka and mukluks as in .112]
 116 — [white woman wearing knit cap and fur parka standing outdoors in winter next to dog yard with chained dogs, buildings in background, Fairbanks?
 117 — [white woman wearing eyeglasses, knit cap, fur parka, and mittens standing outdoors in winter next to dog yard with chained dogs, buildings in background, Fairbanks? cf. .79]
 118 — [several buildings along a boardwalk including two two-story log buildings, flag pole in center, wood pile in foreground, low hills in distance, identified as WAMCATS station at Fort Gibbon. Original print damaged]
 119 — [view of Tanana from Yukon River, with barges along riverbank, church at center]
 120 — [view of Circle. Missing as of 2014] Guide updated: October 25, 2016