Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2004.58.002 A—F
Accession#:
2004.58
Credit Line:
Donated by Brian Wallace.
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Title:
Photograph album of tideland fill, c. 1940
Photographer:
Wallace, Amos
Place:
Juneau
Date:
11/01/1940
Description:
A is album page. B—F are black and white photographs, 2.75 inches by 4.5 inches. All photos horizontally oriented unless otherwise noted.

A — Black paper album page with two holes proper right side. Printed in white ink: "January 1941"; "CCC Rock Fill Juneau Indian Village / Alaska Native Brotherhood — Juneau Camp / Land Protective Committee / William L. Paul Jr — Attorney / Negotiated October 1940". Two photos affixed to front, two photos missing. On reverse: two photos affixed, one loose, two missing. "McGinty" printed in white ink, lower proper right corner.

B — Photograph, winter cityscape, Willoughby Ave. & part of Village. Fosby Apartments on hill (white multi—story building, upper proper left quadrant). Old school (BIA) in foreground, bottom center, with hip roof and row of windows visible on wall closest to proper right side of photograph. Channel and Douglas Bridge in background.

C — Photograph, winter cityscape, houses in Native Village with long wharf in background. House in foreground has steeply—pitched snow—covered roof with ladder built onto it. Long building with curved roof on proper right side of photo was the old ANB Hall. White building w/dark roof in upper pl quadrant (large building in front with smaller building attached behind) was Salvation Army, burned down c. 1985.

D — Photograph, rear view of houses in Native Village. In the background, approximately. 7 houses on pilings are visible. Snowbank in lower proper right corner of photo, with several snow—covered logs and a skiff lying on the rocky ground.

E — Photograph, vertical orientation (loose from album). Rocks and logs on beach in lower third of photo, pilings in center, and houses on pilings and on hillside in background are depicted in upper third. A dark, 3—story gabled house is prominent in background, next to another house in top proper right corner that is noticeably faded.

F — Photograph, houses in background with numerous rotten & broken pilings scattered on snow—covered rocks throughout foreground. Closest house to photographer is two—story white house, almost entirely visible (top of roof cut off by edge of photo) in top center, next to dark house with two windows in upper proper left corner.
Notes:
B — As per Marie Olson, first house entirely visible on proper left side of Willoughby Ave., closest to photographer (white w/dark roof, car driving down Willoughby is passing directly in front of it), belonged to Joe Wilson's mother.

C — Willette Janes wrote "(Femmer's?)" after describing long wharf in background of photo.

D — As per Marie Olson, dark house almost immediately under Salvation Army (slightly to proper left of Salvation Army, white trim around windows) is the Cropley house.

F — As per Marie Olson, dark building in upper proper left corner is the Cropley house.
People:
Paul, William L. Jr.
McGinty
Wallace, Brian
Wallace, Amos
Wilson, Joe
Cropley
Search Terms:
Archival
Photograph
Cityscape
Native
Ethnographic
Tlingit
Auke
Architecture
Transportation
Douglas
ANB
Federal
School
Landscape
Skiff
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