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| Title | Nome, Alaska, looking west with the Bering Sea and Front St. at left, ca. 1907 |
| Photographer | Goetze, Otto Daniel |
| Date | ca. 1907 |
| Notes | This photograph is made of three panels. The John J. Sesnon Co. and the North American Transportation & Trading Co. can be seen in lower left. The steeple of Old St. Joseph's Church can be seen in the center of the far right panel.
Caption on image: The City of Nome Alaska. Goetze.
PH Coll 304 |
| Contextual Notes | The John J. Sesnon Co. and North American Transportation and Trading Co. were mainly involved in lightering, the process of transferring cargo between vessels of different sizes, usually between a barge and a bulker or oil tanker. Lightering is undertaken to reduce a vessel's draft in order to enter port facilities which cannot accept very large ocean-going vessels. Sesnon's cableway for landing freight at Nome was, at the time, the largest cable way of its kind in the world.
Originally a Catholic Church, St. Joseph's is the only remaining example of large churches from the gold rush days. It was built in 1901 and its electrically lit cross was used as a beacon for travelers approaching Nome. It was closed in 1945 due to high heating costs and a declining population, and today is used as a multipurpose public building. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Nome (Alaska); Cities & towns--Alaska; Wooden buildings--Alaska--Nome |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Nome |
| Digital Collection | Panoramic Photographs
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| Order Number | PPC063 |
| Ordering Information | Restrictions apply to the ordering of this image. Please contact photos@u.washington.edu for more information. |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | O.D. Goetze photographs. PH Coll 304 |
| Object Type | Panoramic photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b&w; 7 1/2 x 27 1/4 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photograph at 400 dpi in TIFF format using a Graphtec CSX300-09, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2010. |
