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| Title | Man with malamute dog and puppy, Libbyville (now Naknek), ca. 1912 |
| Photographer | Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940 |
| Date | ca. 1912 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Alaskan Thoroughbreds. Libbyville, Bristol Bay
PH Coll 247.817 |
| Contextual Notes | Naknek is a village in southern Alaska, near the head of Alaska Peninsula, on Kvichak Bay of Bristol Bay at mouth of the Naknek River. The population in 1990 was 575. Primary industries are fishing and fish processing. Naknek was formerly known as Libbyville, Pawik, Suwarof, or Suworof.
These dogs are powerful looking, have thick dense double coats called weather coats. They have erect ears, magnificently bushy tails carried over their backs like waving plumes, tough feet, colors varying from white, gray to black with white. The dogs have remarkable endurance and fortitude.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Men--Alaska--Naknek; Dwellings--Alaska--Naknek |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Alaskan Malamute--Alaska--Naknek; Puppies--Alaska--Naknek; Sled dogs--Alaska--Nakned |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Naknek |
| Digital Collection | John E. Thwaites Photographs |
| Order Number | THW357 |
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| Negative Number | THWAITES 247.817 |
| 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. |
