Item 1: Black and white albumen photograph of “Interior of Capt. Jakes house, Killisnoo,” by Frank La Roche, circa 1900. Photo shows the interior of the house which displays Tlingit regalia and American military uniforms. 5 x 7.5 inches.
Item 2: Black and white albumen print photograph of Cape Fox Village, Alaska, circa 1900, photographer unknown. Reverse of the photo reads in pen “The Cape Fox Village. A former home of some of the Saxman people.” 5 x 7 inches.
Item 3: Cabinet card photograph of “Indian Church at Kiagan, Alaska,” produced by photographer I. G. Davidson, circa 1883 (photographer unknown). Image shows Haida village with clan houses, totems, canoes, and a church bell in front of the village. 5 x 8 inches.
Item 4: Cabinet card photograph of “Chief Shakes House, Ft. Wrangle,” by Edward Partridge, 1887. Image shows the interior of Chief Shakes’ Clan House at Wrangell, with display of regalia, such as clan hats, tunics, staffs, house posts, and other. 5 x 8 inches.
Item 5: Cabinet card photograph showing an “Indian wedding” or what appears to be a Rev. Sheldon Jackson performing a marriage for Tlingit named “Donald and Alice Austin,” produced by B. C. Towne, circa 1880s. Image shows a wedding scene, with a Tlingit couple under a bow or wreath of cedar branches inside a church, with Sheldon Jackson holding a book speaking to the couple.
Item 6: Albumen print photograph showing “Indian huts near Juneau,” by William Partridge, 1886. # 7319. Image shows an Auk village with houses, canoes, tents, and people on the beach, possibly near present day Willoughby Ave. 4.5 x 7 inches.
Item 7: Black and white photograph showing “Kadeshan Totems, Wrangell, Alaska,” photo by Worden, circa 1900. 4 x 10 inches.
Item 8: Black and white photograph showing a “Totem, Wrangell, Alaska,” by Worden, circa 1900. Image shows a young Caucasian girl in Victorian dress standing next to a large killer whale totem near the Chief Shakes Clan House. 4 x 10 inches.
Item 9: Black and white photograph showing a “Totem, Wrangell, Alaska,” by Worden, circa 1900. Image shows a grave or memorial totem for Kauk-ish, whose tombstone in the image reads “In memory of Kauk-ish, died 1897, age 68 yrs.” 4 x 10 inches.
Item 10: Black and white photograph postcard of “Jan-clet-jah, a Yakutat Native,” by Case & Draper, circa 1900. Image shows Jan-clet-jah in Tlingit dress, with Chilkat blanket and clan headdress.
Item 11: Black and white photograph postcard of a “Totem, Indian Cemetery,” photographer unknown, circa 1910. Image shows a mortuary totem with a hat and crutches attached to it; totem has the moon-face design. A Chilkat blanket hangs in the background.
Item 12: Black and white photograph postcard showing “Metlakatla, Alaska,” photographer unknown, circa 1900. Image shows the Native Metlakatla Brass Band playing in a town square with numerous people watching and marching, possibly for a 4th of July parade.
Item 13: Black and white photograph postcard showing a “Totem, Sitka,” by Elite Studio, # 137, circa 1910. Image shows a wooden totem carving, appearing to be a bear.
Item 14: Black and white photograph postcard showing a view of “Old Kasaan Indian Village, Ketchikan, Alaska,” sold by Anna B. Caspersen, Ketchikan, postmarked from Killisnoo in 1909.
Item 15: Staged studio black and white photograph postcard showing “Native basket weavers,” by Case & Draper, 1906. Image shows a Tlingit woman with child in a mock setting while the woman weaves baskets.
Item 16: Colored photograph postcard showing “Patsy Henderson, Inimitable Lecturer, Carcross [Yukon Territory],” published by Gowen, Sutten Co., circa 1920. Image shows a man dressed in inland Tlingit attire.
Item 17: Colored photograph postcard showing “Alaska Indian Costumes,” photographer unknown, postmarked from Wrangell 1909. Image shows Tlingit men displaying traditional regalia.
Item 18: Colored photograph postcard showing “Japonski [Island], where the potlatchers were met and feasted by Sitka Natives,” published by Lowman & Handord Co., circa 1904. Image shows a view from the 1904 potlatch at Sitka often referred to as the ‘Last Potlatch.”
Item 19: Oversized cabinet card of “Camp of Auk Indians, Alaska,” by Winter & Pond, 1896. Image shows an Auk fishing camp with tents, gear, and Tlingit people. 10 x 12 inches.
Item 20: Oversized photograph mounted on matt-board showing “Totem poles, Chief Shake’s House, Fort Wrangel, Alaska,” by Winter & Pond, 1895. Image show six children displaying Tlingit regalia on the front steps of the Chief Shakes Clan House, Wrangell. Photo measures 7 x 9 inches.
Item 21: Cabinet card photograph of “Chief Kawee and tribe, Juneau,” by Winter & Brown, circa 1870s. View shows approximately twenty native men posing in front of a dead brown bear, at what appears to the old Juneau Indian Village. Background shows some native women and children amidst Tlingit homes.
Item 22: Cabinet card photograph of the Yakutat Tlingit village, circa 1880s, by Edward de Groff. Photograph captures a view looking at the front of four main Tlingit homes. People and canoes are visible.
Item 23: Cabinet card photograph of the Tlingit homes at Sitka, Alaska, circa 1880s, by Edward de Groff. Photo shows houses along the waterfront at Sitka.
Item 24: Cabinet card photograph showing a Tlingit canoe with sails on an unknown river, circa 1880s, by Miller-Chase. Photo has seven or eight men in canoe, with sails up and American flag waiving. Photo is labeled as “Miners on the Yukon, Alaska.”
Item 25: Cabinet card photograph of a Tlingit women posing in a Western-styled dress, by Partridge, circa 1890s. Listed as # 7894 by Partridge, and labeled by Partridge as “Matilda the Indian Belle of Wrangell.”
Item 26: Black and white albumen print photograph of two Tlingit or Haida women sitting in a canoe on the water, original image attributed as E.W. Merrill, circa 1900. Location unknown, but possibly near Juneau. Reverse of the photo contains a partially visible stamp of photographer, with studio at Sitka.
Item 27: Black and white albumen print photograph of a Tsimshian woman and her daughter selling basketry and other Native art items at Metlakatla, Alaska, by Merl. La Voy, circa 1900. View shows women sitting on steps of boardwalk with approximately twenty baskets for sale, some baskets read ‘Metlakatla’.
Item 28: Black and white albumen print photograph of a “Taku chief and wife,” dated 1900, photographer listed as H.C. Barley. View shows a Tlingit women in regalia standing in front of a tent while a man wearing a hat that reads Taku Chief stands to the side.
Item 29: Stereoview photograph of “Alaskan Deities, Kasa An Village,” produced by Underwood & Underwood, circa 1900. Photo shows houses and totems of the Kasaan village.
Item 30: Postcard photograph of “Native jeweler making bracelets, Wrangell, Alaska,” postmarked 1910. Photo shows jeweler at work in his shop; appears to be Haida carver John Wallace (1861-1950), but others have stated this could be either Charles Gunnuck or Johnny Kassunk (see B. Demerjian, 2011: 111).
Item 31: Postcard showing Alaska Native art and curios produced in P.E. Kern’s Skagway jewelry store, circa 1910. Postcard shows many Tlingit and Haida designed art pieces, many featuring the swastika design on art, before the swastika became a negative symbol.
Item 32: Postcard photograph capturing a view of Tlingit shaman Scundoo or “Skan-Doo, a Kak-Von-Ton (Eagle Clan).” Dated 1907 by photographer W.H. Case.
Item 33: Postcard photograph of “Patsy Henderson, Yukon Lecturer,” circa 1920. Henderson was an inland-Tlingit lecturer.
Item 34: Postcard photograph of “Chief Shake’s House, Shakes in Costume, Wrangell, Alaska,” circa 1900, photographer unknown. Photo shows a Shakes and possible son of Shakes in front of the Chief Shakes Tribal House, both are wearing button tunics and holding headdresses.
Item 35: Postcard photograph of “Chief Johnson – Head of the one mighty tribe – the Thlingets,” circa 1890s, photographer unknown. Photo shows Johnson wearing clan regalia, with arranged display of regalia and American flag in background. Also written on image is “Otto S.”
Item 36: Postcard photograph of Tlingit and Haida art taken at Ketchikan, circa 1900. Image shows carved art, masks, beaded blankets, weaved art, and other.
Item 37: Postcard photograph of “Indians in Dancing Costume, Wrangell, Alaska,” postmarked 1911. Image shows three Wrangell Tlingit in dancing regalia.
Item 38: Colored postcard photograph of “Chilkat Indian Dancer,” showing a Tlingit man in a Chilkat tunic, circa 1900.
Item 39: Postcard photograph of Tlingit or Haida Indians photographed in front of a Tlingit or Haida home, with non-Natives standing alongside, possibly non-Natives from a ship, circa 1900.
Item 40: Black and white photograph of personal library showing a Chilkat blanket hanging on the wall with carved totems, circa 1938.
Item 41: Tlingit dance program for a dance performance held in Juneau at D. Martini’s circa 1888. Program mentions Chief Kowee and Yash Noosh. [view of front and back]
Item 41: Tlingit dance program for a dance performance held in Juneau at D. Martini’s circa 1888. Program mentions Chief Kowee and Yash Noosh. [inside view]
Item 42: Stereoview of a non-Native dressed as a Tlingit shaman at Klinkwan village, circa 1900.
Item 43: Stereoview of Tlingit family taken at Sitka, 1878.
Item 44: Stereoview of two Tlingit women taken at Wrangell, 1878.
Item 45: Stereoview photograph showing the Wrangell Tlingit village and Kadashan Totems, 1878.
Item 46: Cabinet card photograph showing a view of Howkan village, circa 1880s.
Item 47: Cabinet card photograph showing a Wrangell Tlingit grave marker, circa 1880s.
Item 48: Cabinet card photograph showing a Strongman totem at Wrangell, circa 1880s.
Item 49: Cabinet card photograph showing a Haida home with totem in front at Howkan Village, circa 1880s.
Item 50: Cabinet card photograph showing Tlingit or Haida graves, circa 1880s. It’s likely that these totems were at Howkan.
Item 51: Cabinet card photograph showing Haida totems at Howkan Village, circa 1880s.
Item 52: Cabinet card photograph showing Haida totems at "Kiagan" or Howkan Village, by I.G. Davison, 1883.
Item 53: Cabinet card photograph showing Tlingit homes at Juneau, by Landerkin & Winter, circa 1880. Photographer's caption reads “Indian Huts near Juneau, Alaska.”
Item 54: Cabinet card photograph of a Tlingit man in regalia and clan hat, produced by B.C. Towne, circa 1880s. Photographer likely Edward DeGroff, Tlingit man in picture attributed by Edward DeGroff as Saginaw Jake.
Item 55: Cabinet card photograph of Haida man standing in front of a Haida home with totem at Howkan Village, wood shavings in foreground, by Edward DeGroff, circa 1880s.
Item 56: Cabinet card photograph showing a Tlingit or Haida family sitting in front of a clan house, by Edward DeGroff, circa 1880s.
Item 57: Cabinet card photograph showing Tlingit women weaving and selling baskets at Sitka, by Edward DeGroff, circa 1880s. Photographer’s caption reads “50. Basket Makers, Sitka, Alaska.”
Item 58: Cabinet card photograph showing a Tlingit women at Sitka in Western dress, by Reuben Albertstone, circa 1880s. Photographer’s handwritten caption reads “Yah-Yicks a civilized Alaskan belle.
Item 59: Cabinet card photograph showing a Sitka Tlingit village, including homes, people, and fish hanging to dry, smoke in foreground near fish, by Reuben Albertstone, circa 1880s.
Item 60: Cabinet card photograph showing “Interior of Indian House, Sitka,” by Partridge, # 7812, circa 1886.
Item 61: Cabinet card photograph showing Tlingit children and youths at the Presbyterian “Sitka Training School,” Sheldon Jackson on right foreground, by E.J. Partridge, # 7982, circa 1887.
Item 62: Cabinet card showing a Tlingit family likely at Sitka, by Partridge, # 7850, circa 1886. Photograph shows the two Tlingit women with short hair and ash-darkened faces.
Item 63: Cabinet card photograph showing a Chilkat blanket and eleven argillite totems, by Partridge, # 7859, circa 1886.
Item 64: Cabinet card photograph showing a Haida family at the Loring Cannery, Alaska, circa 1880s, photographer unknown.
Item 65: Cabinet card photograph showing the Juneau Indian Village and a gathering of Tlingit, photographer unknown, circa 1888.
Item 66: Cabinet card photograph showing three Tlingit men on board a ship, circa 1880s. Left to right; unidentified, Chief Kowee, and Chief Aanyalahaash.
Item 67: Staged studio cabinet card photograph of four Tlingit women posing with Tlingit art at Juneau, by Winter & Pond, circa 1890s.
Item 68: Cabinet card photograph of Chilkat Tlingit at Klukwan posing in regalia for a potlatch or event, by Winter & Pond, 1895.
Item 69: Cabinet card photograph showing Tlingit children gathering herring on a Douglas Island beach, near Juneau, Alaska, by Winter & Pond, 1895.
Item 70: Cabinet card photograph showing the main street in Sitka and Tlingit women selling baskets and art in from of the Sitka Trading Co. store, by F. LaRoche, 1898.
Item 71: Oversized cabinet card photograph showing Tlingit grave markers on Wrangell Island, by I.W. Taber, 1889. Photographer’s caption reads “Indian Graves and Totems, near Fort Wrangle, Alaska.”
Item 72: Oversize cabinet card photograph showing a side view of the front of Chief Shakes house at Wrangell, Alaska, by S.R. Stoddard, 1892. Photographer’s caption reads “Totem Poles at house of Chief Shakes, Ft. Wrangell, Alaska.”
Item 73: Photograph of Fredrica de Laguna, while Curator of U of Pennsylvania Museum, wearing Tlingit regalia and holding a Tlingit clan hat, 11/18/1931. Courtesy of Richard Wood.
Item 74: Oversized cabinet card showing a group photograph of the Tlingit baseball team “Alaskans” in their baseball uniforms, undated, photography by E. Andrews of Douglas, Alaska. Note: Research by Richard Wood uncovered mention of how Tlingit culture-bearer J. B. Fawcett (1889-1983) (Tseexwaa) was a baseball “player and manager for the Hoonah baseball team called the ‘Alaskans.’” (Dauenhauer and Dauenhauer, 1994).
Item 75: Postcard photograph of four Tlingit women in regalia at Wrangell, Alaska, postmarked 1907, photo by E. Matheson. Label for photograph reads “Indian women in dancing costume, Wrangell, Alaska.” One individual in the picture was identified by the postcard sender as Kalton, and then Kalton’s daughter, but this has been contested. A publication (B. Demerjian, 2011: 101) identifies three of the women in the photo; left to right; Mrs. Barney Williams, Suzie Jones (wife if Charlie Jones/Chief Shakes VII), and Tahltan Jennie (d. 1921).
Item 76: Postcard photograph showing a Tlingit man in a Chilkat blanket, undated, by Schallevers. Photograph is labeled as being “Chief Jim Takgook of Juneau, AK.”
Item 77: Photograph of unidentified Tlingit man in Chilkat robe, with raven rattle, and clan hat, undated, photographer unknown.
Item 78: Stereoview photograph of George Schwatka (Ind-A-Yanek) on a horse at Haines, Alaska circa 1900. Ind-A-Yanek (later known as George Schwatka) was often photographed by early photographers of Alaska, though this image is quite rare--in part because it’s the only known image of a Tlingit on a horse during this period. Ind-A-Yanek of Klukwan is sometimes remembered as a guide to non-Natives who traveled inland during the gold rush era and exploration period, slightly before and after the turn of the century. In 1883 the federal government sent 1st Lt. Frederick Gustavus Schwatka (1849-1892) to Alaska to do a survey of routes from Haines to Fort Selkirk, Yukon. Lt. Schwatka hired Ind-A-Yanek to guide his party for the survey. Ind-A-Yanek did so, but Schwatka refused to pay him after his work concluded. Ind-A-Yanek told Schwatka that he would take his last name for the rest of Ind-A-Yanek's life as a ridicule payment, and thereafter Ind-A-Yanek was known as George Schwatka.
Item 78: Reverse of stereoview photograph of George Schwatka (Ind-A-Yanek) on a horse at Haines, Alaska circa 1900.
Item 79: Postcard photograph of “Natives on dock at Yakutat, Alaska selling moccasins,” circa 1920, photographer unknown.
Item 80: Postcard photograph of five Tlingit men in regalia, photograph taken at Sitka, circa 1904, photographer unknown. Postmarked 1952 from Sitka. [Alaska State Library Historical Collections owns a copy of the same photograph, which as of 2011 was titled/labeled; “Raven Coho Tribe; Dat-woo doo oo of Sitka lived at Klukwan most of his life. Wife eek-thla.” Call # ASL-P297-096.
Item 81: Postcard photograph of “Street scene, Tenakee,” circa 1900, photograph by Blankenberg. Image shows a street scene of Tenakee Spring, a Tlingit village, with some Tlingit children on the streets. Postmarked from Tenakee Springs.
Item 82: Colored photograph postcard of “Indian house and totem pole, Ketchikan, Alaska,” postmarked 1910, photographer unknown but postcard was created for “On Line Pacific Coast Steamship Co. Totem Pole Route.”
Item 83: Photograph postcard of “Indian totem poles, northern British Columbia,” undated, photographer unknown. Shows possible Haida village.
Item 84: Cabinet card of an unidentified Tlingit man in a suit, top hat, and holding a cane at Sitka, circa 1880s, photograph by Edward DeGroff.
Item 85: Cabinet card of Tlingit men standing on the beach at Douglas Island (Juneau in the background) with Tlingit women seated in a Tlingit canoe, circa 1886, photograph by Partridge.
Item 86: Cabinet card of “Fort Wrangle [Wrangell]” showing a totem and part of the Wrangell Tlingit village, circa 1886, photograph by Partridge.
Item 87: Cabinet card of studio portrait photograph of [L to R] William A. Kelly, Sheldon Jackson [seated], and A.E. Austin, Presbyterian mission leadership at Sitka, dated April 18, 1869, photograph by the Reuben Alberstone & Co.
Item 88: Photograph mounted on backing showing “Sitka – Indian canoes and salmon drying racks on beach,” photograph likely by Partridge, circa 1886.
Item 89: Photograph showing Tlingit dancers at Port Chilkoot performing for tourists, dated September 16, 1964, photograph by Horace Sutton.
