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| Title | Public school building, Douglas, ca. 1912 |
| Photographer | Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940 |
| Date | ca. 1912 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Public School, Douglas, Alaska
PH Coll 247.444 |
| Contextual Notes | Douglas lies within the City & Borough of Juneau, on the northeast coast of Douglas Island. The Gastineau Channel is traversed by the Juneau-Douglas Bridge. Locally, the Douglas area refers to the southern end of the Island (population 2,000). The earliest recorded name was Edwardsville, perhaps for H.H. Edwards, a miner and resident. Douglas originated in 1881 to service mining activities, and became an incorporated city in 1902. Also founded in 1881, nearby Treadwell was established 1.2 miles southeast of Douglas. It was a company town, and incorporated as a city from 1901 through 1912. The Treadwell and Ready Bullion mines on Douglas Island became world-scale mines, operating from 1882 to 1917. In 1917, a cave-in and flood closed the Treadwell mine. It produced $66 million in gold in its 35 years of operation. The City of Douglas was unified with the City of Juneau in 1970.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Public schools--Alaska--Juneau; Swings--Alaska--Juneau; Utility poles--Alaska--Juneau; Dwellings--Alaska--Juneau; Douglas (Juneau, Alaska) |
| Subjects (LCSH) | School buildings--Alaska--Juneau |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Douglas |
| Digital Collection | John E. Thwaites Photographs |
| Order Number | THW231 |
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| Negative Number | THWAITES 247.444 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | John E. Thwaites Photograph Collection. PH Coll 247
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| 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 768x512 ppi. 2003. |
