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| Title | Blix's Road House, with Mount Wrangle in the background, Copper Center, ca. 1910 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1910 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Blix's Road House, Mt. Wrangle in Background, Copper Center, Alaska
Filed in Alaska--Cities--Copper Center |
| Contextual Notes | Ringwald Blix and his wife Frances ran a road house in Copper Center in the early 1900s. Ringwald was born in Norway in 1872, and Frances was born in Missouri in 1872. By 1920, Ringwald and Frances were living in Seattle, living on 15th Avenue Northwest in Ballard. Ringwald Blix died in 1948 in Seattle.
Copper Center is a village on the Klutina River, 1 mile west of its junction with Cooper Creek and 66 miles northeast of Valdez. A trading post was located here about 1896. The village was established as a mining camp when about 300 prospectors wintered here in 1898-99. With the establishment of a telegraph station by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about 1901, and being on the Fairbanks-Valdez trail, the village became the principal settlement and supply center in the Nelchina-Susitna Region. [Source: Donald Orth. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1967.] |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Log buildings--Alaska--Copper Center |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Roadhouses--Alaska--CopperCenter; Copper Center (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Wrangell, Mount (Alaska) |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Copper Center |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC1003
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| Negative Number | UW8055 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Alaska Photograph Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004. |
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