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: W. K. Winterhalter Portrait

COLLECTION NUMBER: B2012.009

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Dates: 1896

Extent: 1 item

Language and Scripts: The collection is in English.

Name of creator(s): unknown

Administrative/Biographical History:
Wilhelm Karl Winterhalter was born in Germany in 1868 and emigrated to California in 1893.
He traveled to Alaska in September of 1893, wound up on Wood Island, spent a couple of
months employed with the North American Commercial Co., then headed south on a hunting
trip with locals to Unalaska. He took a steamer all the way up and down the Yukon and then
around to Pt Barrow. He returned to San Francisco in August 1894. In 1896, he was working as
a secretary for Eugene W. Hilgard at University of California, Berkeley.¹

This photograph was published in the book, Unpacking culture: art and commodity in colonial
and postcolonial worlds, where the caption reads: “N. Winterhalter, a special-access collector,
showing off his Alaska Native artifacts after returning home to Berkeley, California, 1896. The
collection includes Northwest Coast, Aleut, and Eskimo objects.”
²

Scope and Content Description:

¹ Los Angeles examiner (Los Angeles, Calif.). 1912. Press reference library (Southwest ed.) ... being the portraits
and biographies of progressive men of the Southwest. Los Angeles, Cal: The Los Angeles Examiner.
² Phillips, Ruth B., and Christopher Burghard Steiner. 1999. Unpacking culture art and commodity in colonial and
postcolonial worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press.

One portrait photograph, 23.5 x 18 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.), signed on verso: “A breath of Arctic
air at home. Winterhalter. Berkeley, October ’96.”

Arrangement: Not applicable


CONDITIONS GOVERNING ACCESS AND USE

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

Physical Access: Original item 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:
W. K. Winterhalter Portrait, Anchorage Museum, B2012.009

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Acquisition and Appraisal Information
Joint purchase, the Anchorage Museum Association and the Anchorage Municipal Acquisition
Fund, December 1988. Transferred from Collections to archives in May 2012.

Separated Materials
Drawings and photographs of drawings purchased in lot are housed in Collections.

RELATED MATERIALS
1988.061

SUBJECTS
Winterhalter, Wilhelm Karl, b. 1868


Guide written: May 29, 2012