Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2005.41.004 A—E
Accession#:
2005.41
Credit Line:
Donated by Floyd Dryden Middle School Librarian Pat McLear.
Object Name:
Page, Scrapbook
Title:
Floyd & Nannie Dryden's Alaska Scrapbook
Place:
Juneau, Alaska
Date:
01/01/1935—01/01/1992
Description:
A is album page. B—C are photos affixed to front of page, D—E are photos affixed to back of page. All photos approximately 3.5" x 5.5" with white border unless otherwise noted.

A — Album page, 7" x 11.25" manilla paper , with handwritten captions on front and back.

B — Black and white photo, view of downtown Ketchikan, no border, slight aerial (roof top) view. Street extends from photographer back toward top of photo, with store buildings on either side, and is intersected by perpendicular street near bottom of photo. Streets are lined with cars and people. Sign nearest photographer, in lower proper left quadrant of photo, reads "Taxi Transfer & Storage 14 Phone 14". Snow—capped mountains in background across top third of photo. Printed along bottom edge: "S—107 Mission St. from Steamers Bridge — Ketchikan, Alaska" and, in lower proper left corner, "Schallerer's (c)". Caption reads: "Here is where the boat docked and we went ashore to view the town. Surprised to see so many cars here where there are no highways."

C — Black and white photo, view of downtown Ketchikan, no border. Taken from below roof top level but above street level. Street extends from photographer back toward top of photo, with store buildings on either side and wooden fence running perpendicular to it, along bottom edge of photo. Group of men dressed mainly in dark—colored clothes and hats gathered in lower proper right corner; several more on street facing away from photographer. 16 cars on either side of street. Houses on hill beyond downtown area; snow—capped mountains in background.

D — Black and white photo, aerial view of Wrangell looking down from mountains toward the water. Buildings mostly in lower proper left quadrant of photo; mountains slope up toward proper right side. Hazy whitish streak (smoke?) extends from near center of photo toward upper proper right corner. More mountains visible beyond water in upper proper left quadrant. Caption to proper right of photo reads: "Tuesday morning Aug. 13th"; caption below photo states: "After leaving Ketchikan about eight o'clock in evening, the next morning about five o'clock this little village can [sic] into view."

E — Black and white photo, another aerial view of Wrangell taken from similar angle as D but closer to sea level. Buildings and land fill up bottom half of photo; upper half is mostly water with spits of land in upper proper right corner and bottoms of mountains visible in upper proper left corner. Large steamship docked at center of photo, facing proper right. Label in bottom proper right corner reads "Wrangell Alaska / Where the Stikine Meets the Sea". Caption below photo: "Floyd went ashore but I was to [sic] sleepy to get up but was up in time to view it from deck as boat was leaving, for we did not stay very long here."
People:
Dryden, Floyd
McLear, Pat
Dryden, Nannie
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