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Haida whale totem at Wrangell, ca. 1913
Haida whale totem at Wrangell, ca. 1913
TitleHaida whale totem at Wrangell, ca. 1913
PhotographerThwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940
Dateca. 1913
NotesCaption on image: Totum at Fort Wrangel, Alaska

PH Coll 247.450
Contextual NotesFollowing Alaska's purchase in 1867, the Americans built Fort Wrangel in 1868 (abandoned in 1877), named for Russian-American Company manager Ferdinand von Wrangel. The post office added the extra "l" later.

Subjects (LCTGM)Wrangell (Alaska); Men--Alaska--Wrangell; Dwellings--Alaska--Wrangell
Subjects (LCSH)Totems--Alaska--Wrangell; Haida sculpture--Alaska--Wrangell; Whales in art
Location DepictedUnited States--Alaska--Wrangell
Digital CollectionJohn E. Thwaites Photographs
Order NumberTHW235
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Negative NumberTHWAITES 247.450
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
Repository CollectionJohn E. Thwaites Photograph Collection. PH Coll 247
Object TypePhotograph
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned 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.
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