Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2013.29.001
Accession#:
2013.29
Credit Line:
Donated by Romer and Laraine Derr.
Object Name:
Book
Title:
Occidental Hotel Guest Register 1901—1903
Year Range from:
1901
Year Range to:
1903
Scope & Content:
Large, bound book with leather cover. Text on the spine of the book identifies it as the guest register for the Occidental Hotel. The pages inside are either guest log pages or blotter pages. The guest log pages have "THE OCCIDENTAL HOTEL, JUNEAU, ALASKA", the date, and proprietor information at the top. The proprietor is identified as John Olds. The rest of the page is divided into six columns: Date, Name, Residence, Room, Time, and Remarks. The "Time" is indicated with a "B", "L", "D" or "S", probably indicating the meal time of breakfast, lunch, dinner or supper. The pages account for September 17, 1901 through September 1, 1903. The blotter pages contain advertisements for the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, B.M. Behrends Banker and General Merchant, C.W. Young Hardware, Alaska Transfer Company, Pacific Meat Company, Winter and Pond Photo Supplies, Decker Brothers. General Merchandise, California Bakery, Alaska News Company Ford and Own Post Office and Barber Shop, First National Bank of Juneau, the Louvre Theatre and the Alaska Daily Dispatch. A yellow sticker inside the front cover identifies the maker of the book as H.S. Crocker Company of San Francisco (printers, stationers, bookbinders, lithographer and engravers). The book was given number 40999 and the note "WHEN ORDERING DUPLICATE OF THIS WORK PLEASE SEND ABOVE NUMBER.".
Dates of Creation:
1901—1903
Notes:
The donor, Laraine Derr, made note of a few signatures/guests of consequence.:
July 20,1902 — Theo Roosevelt from Washington D.C.
November 26, 1902 — George Kastriminoff of Sitka (Room 21) (priest in Sitka)
March 2, 1903 —— James Wickersham of Valdez (room 38).
July 20,1902 — Theo Roosevelt from Washington D.C.
November 26, 1902 — George Kastriminoff of Sitka (Room 21) (priest in Sitka)
March 2, 1903 —— James Wickersham of Valdez (room 38).
People:
Derr, Romer
Derr, Laraine
Olds, John
Derr, Laraine
Olds, John
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