Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2006.38.020
Accession#:
2006.38
Credit Line:
Donated by Robert J. Freeman.
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Title:
Group of miners, Juneau, Alaska
Place:
Juneau
Date:
1891
Year Range from:
1891
Description:
Cabinet card photo of four miners, including Juneau, "Knowels."
Image of four men posing on proper right. Two men on proper left in background. There are wooden structures on the proper right behind the men, and they are standing on a wooden boardwalk.
The men are labeled (from left to right): Joe Farnsworth, J.M. Davis, Thos. Knowles (correctly spelled Nowell), and Joe Juneau.
On back: "group of miners, Juneau Alaska."
Image of four men posing on proper right. Two men on proper left in background. There are wooden structures on the proper right behind the men, and they are standing on a wooden boardwalk.
The men are labeled (from left to right): Joe Farnsworth, J.M. Davis, Thos. Knowles (correctly spelled Nowell), and Joe Juneau.
On back: "group of miners, Juneau Alaska."
Notes:
"Knowles" is almost certainly "Nowell" spelled wrong. Jim Geraghty believes this image is taken at the Red Mill? Redman says it wasn't used until 1900?
People:
Juneau, Joe
Nowell
Nowell, Thomas Sheppard
Davis, John Montgomery
Farnsworth, Joe
Nowell
Nowell, Thomas Sheppard
Davis, John Montgomery
Farnsworth, Joe
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Four miners
Four miners