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: Natalie Brother Album

COLLECTION NUMBER: B2009.004

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Dates: circa 1913

Extent: 174 images, .25 linear feet

Language and Scripts: The collection is in English.

Name of creator(s): Natalie Brother Henton, Louis H. Pedersen

Administrative/Biographical History:
Natalie Brother Henton (1897-1983) lived in Versailles, Kentucky, circa 1913.

Scope and Content Description:
The collection consists of one photograph album containing 174 images from a circa 1913 trip
to Alaska.

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. Some fading of images.

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:
Natalie Brother Album, Anchorage Museum, B2009.004

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Acquisition and Appraisal Information
Donated to the Anchorage Museum by the Alaska Travel Industry Association. The ATIA
received the album from Hampton Henton, son of Natalie Brother.

Processing Notes
Album completely disbound at time of receipt, with only front cover extant. Cover discarded.

RELATED MATERIALS


SUBJECTS
White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm)
Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company
Princess Sophia (Steamboat)
Princess Alice (Steamboat)
Casca (Ship)
Whitehorse (Ship)
Selkirk (Ship)
Gold mines and mining—Alaska
Glaciers
Kwakiutl art
Kwakiutl Indians – British Columbia
Fish canneries – British Columbia
Inside Passage
Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska)
Whitehorse (Yukon)
Prince Rupert (B.C.)
Ketchikan (Alaska)
Skagway (Alaska)
Juneau (Alaska)
Alert Bay (B.C.)
Wrangell Narrows (Alaska)
Klondike River (Yukon)
Dawson (Yukon)
Carcross (Yukon)

Atlin Lake (British Columbia)
Tagish Lake (Yukon)
Glacier National Park (Mont.)

Detailed Description of the Collection
 1 — Whitehorse Rapids
 2 — Miles Canyon from the train
 3 — After passing through the Five Fingers
 4 — [three women and one man on bank, presumably of Yukon River]
 5 — Whitehorse Rapids
 6 — Going through Five Fingers Yukon
 7 — Five Fingers on the Yukon
 8 — Five Fingers, Yukon River
 9 — Course taken in going through Five Fingers
 10 — At Whitehorse Rapids
 11 — Whitehorse Rapids
 12 — Five Fingers
 13 — Five Fingers, Yukon
 14 — Whitehorse Rapids
 15 — On the trail
 16 — Whitehorse wharf
17 — Out for a joy ride [woman in wheeled chair being pushed down boardwalk]
 18 — “The Big 4” at Whitehorse Rapids [four women sit on riverbank]
 19 — Leaving the [rapids?]
 20 — Whitehorse Rapids
 21 — [Whitehorse Rapids]
 22 — Five Fingers
 23 — Post office at Whitehorse
 24 — Riding on the engine [White Pass & Yukon Route]
 25 — “After a very exciting ride” [White Pass & Yukon Route]
 26 — Approaching Prince Rupert
 27 — Princess Alice at Prince Rupert
 28 — [boardwalk and utility pole, Prince Rupert?]
 29 — From heights of Prince Rupert
 30 — Prince Rupert
 31 — Prince Rupert
 32 — From heights of Prince Rupert
 33 — [boardwalk and buildings, Prince Rupert?]
 34 — On the way to the falls, Ketchikan
 35 — Ketchikan residences
36 — Princess Sophia, Skagway [ship]
 37 — Treadwell Mines Juneau
 38 — [Gastineau Channel?]
 39 — Glacier, Alberta
 40 — Glacier, Alberta
 41 — Part of a glacier
 42 — Indian monuments [Tlah-Go-Glass, Nimkessh Chief]
 43 — Totem pole at Alert Bay, Alaska
44 — Indian Monument Maker’s Sign
 45 — Indian Monument
 46 — Totem poles, Alert Bay Alaska [sic]
 47 — Alert Bay
 48 — Alert Bay
 49 — Alert Bay
 50 — [mining operation?]
 51 — Indian children, Alert Bay Alaska [sic]
 52 — Fish cannery, Alert Bay
53 — View of interior of Indian house, Alert Bay
 54 — At Indian cemetery, Alert Bay
 55 — On way to Indian graveyard, Alert B[ay]
 56 — [man and woman at cemetery, Alert Bay]
 57 — [Kwakiutl children outside home]
 58 — [Kwakiutl children outside home]
 59 — Inside Passage
 60 — [Inside Passage]
 61 — [Inside Passage]
 62 — Inside Passage
 63 — Small glaciers along the Alaskan coast
 64 — Fishing boat
 65 — Inside Passage
 66 — Inside Passage
 67 — Wrangle [sic] Narrows
 68 — [steamship at dock]
 69 — Inside Passage
70 — Building concrete light house, Wrangle [sic] Narrows
 71 — Views of small glaciers along the coast
 72 — Mountain scenes along the coast
 73 — Mountain scenes along the coast
 74 — Settlement on one of the coast islands
 75 — Mountain scenes along the coast
 76 — Calm water in Wrangel [sic] Narrows
 77 — Small glaciers along Alaskan coast
 78 — Along the coast
 79 — Inside Passage
 80 — Inside Passage
 81 — Inside Passage, Wrangle [sic] Narrows
 82 — Small glaciers along the Alaskan coast
 83 — Inside Passage
 84 — Clock at Vancouver
 85 — Mrs. Firestone and Long Shorty
 86 — [man and two women standing by log pile]
 87 — Mrs. Mills and the Deserted Hut, Skagway
 88 — Views along the White Pass & Yukon R.R. before reaching the summit
 89 — [unidentified town, high wooden palisade]
 90 — Lake Bennett 28 miles long
 91 — Looking across Lake Bennett
 92 — Three of a kind, Casca [ship]
 93 — [unidentified river with bridge in distance, Yukon River?]
 94 — The Whitehorse on the Yukon above Dawson
 95 — Looking up the Klondyke River from Dawson
 96 — Natural bridge, Yukon
 97 — Log house, Alaska
 98 — General stores and post office, Yukon
 99 — Along the Yukon
 100 — Steamer Selkirk
 101 — Steamer Selkirk, Yukon River
 102 — Loading the Casca on the Yukon
 103 — Yukon River
 104 — Yukon River
 105 — Dogs waiting for food from the boat on Yukon
 106 — Our boat on the Yukon
 107 — Indian Squaws and papoose
 108 — [unidentified waterway]
 109 — [group posed in trees]
 110 — Deserted hut out the Yukon
 111 — On the Yukon River
 112 — Pine trees on the Yukon
 113 — Corduroy road, Alaska
 114 — School building, Dawson
 115 — One million dollar gold dredge, Alaska
 116 — Panning gold by hand
 117 — Shovels on the gold dredge, Dawson
 118 — Gold dredge at work along the Klondyke River
 119 — Hydraulic system of mining
120 — Washing a mountain away, hydraulic system
 121 — Hydraulic system of mining for gold
122 — Gold caught in the long box
 123 — Public school, Dawson
 124 — On the gold dredge, Mr. Craft in center
 125 — Dawson City
 126 — Hotel at Dawson
 127 — English church, Dawson
 128 — Government house, Dawson
 129 — Royal North West Mounted Police Barracks, Dawson
 130 — Athletic Hall
 131 — Bank of British North America, Dawson
 132 — Gold smelting house, Dawson
 133 — [two women sitting next to boardwalk leading to church]
 134 — Bennette [three women and one man standing on train caboose]
 135 — Dogs at Whitehorse
 136 — Indian cemetery, Carcross
 137 — Indian Monument [Dawson Charlie, died Dec. 26, 1908, aged 42 yrs]
 138 — Indian cemetery, Carcross
 139 — [marker, Tagish Charley]
 140 — Llewellen [sic] Glacier, Lake Atlin
 141 — Llewellen [sic] Glacier, Lake Atlin
 142 — Llewellen [sic] Glacier, Lake Atlin
 143 — Lake Atlin
 144 — One of the trains we were on [engine The Duchess]
 145 — Atlin Mountain
 146 — [railroad engine The Duchess]
 147 — Engine picked out of the Panama junk pile
 148 — Glacier National Park, Mont.
 149 — Natalie looking into Engineers Mine, Lake Tagish
 150 — Washing gold ore
 151 — Loading gold ore, Lake Tagish
 152 — Lake Atlin
 153 — Small iceberg
 154 — Small icebergs
 155 — Small icebergs
 156 — Iceberg
 157 — [iceberg]
 158 — Small icebergs
 159 — Icebergs
 160 — Little Indian girl weaving a basket
 161 — Large dogs of Alaska
 162 — [woman with dogs]
163 — Atlin Hotel put up in 30 days cost $50,000
 164 — [postcard] Lake Atlin B.C. 3A384
165 — [totem poles, unidentified village]
166 — [Native cemetery, unidentified village]
 167 — [postcard] Wrangell Narrows, 1435
 168 — [colored postcard] Yukon Dog Team
 169 — [man with two dogs]
 170 — [postcard] Yukon Quartette
 171 — [postcard] U.S. Mail. Seward-Susitna, Alaska 670 copyrighted 1913 L.H. Pedersen
 172 — [postcard] No. 839. The Pride of the Klondyke, Y.T.
 173 — [postcard] A Yukon Trail
 174 — [postcard] H-3. Many-Glacier Hotel, Lake McDermott, Glacier National Park, Montana Guide written: May 1, 2012