Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
89.50.001
Accession#:
89.50
Credit Line:
Donated by Mabel Burke.
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Title:
Midsummer Picnic Photograph
Place:
Douglas
Date:
7/1/1914 0:00:00
Description:
Sepia toned photo of large mixed group of people, standing, seated outdoors. Evergreen trees in background, tree stumps left hand side.
Inscription: "Order of VASA Midsummer Picnic Douglas, Alaska 1914"
Inscription: "Order of VASA Midsummer Picnic Douglas, Alaska 1914"
Notes:
Ben, boy on left hand on head of other boy — Ben's dad man on right of 3 men at top of picture, not one standing alone. Family left Treadwell around 1916. Boy being pointed at may have been Clifford Anderson. See 90.02.01 for more information. Maimi Jensen said that this photograph must have been taken by Lawson Creek before the pavillion. The women who is circled (on the photocopy) was Mrs. Carson, a housewife.
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Landscape
Picnic
Recreation
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Scandanavian
Picnic
Recreation
Ethnic Diversity
Scandanavian
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Midsummer Picnic Photograph
Midsummer Picnic Photograph
Midsummer Picnic Photograph
Midsummer Picnic Photograph