Album, 7.5 x 11.5 in., containing 62 photographs ranging in size from 6 x 9 in. to 2.75 x 4 in., most about 3.25 x 5.5 in. First page pasted with a piece of birch bark upon which is inked, "Photos from the Land of the Midnight Sun/ F.H.G. Gibson/ Nome, Alaska." F.H.G. Gibson was the clerk to Alaska Division 2 US Attorney J.H. Hart, based in Nome (the judge of Division 2 was G.J. Lomen). The first ten pages all have one photograph and one photographic print of eight lines of the poem "The Kobuk Maiden." These are followed by many more photographs of Alaska Natives, including their methods of fishing, seal hunting and catching king crab. One photograph shows a reindeer draped in the American flag, pulling a sled with two women and several other US flags. Another shows an African-American child in a fur parka. The final 20 photographs are all 6 x 9 in. prints by Lomen Brothers, Nome, with titles in the negatives. Scenes include a view of the town from the Bering Sea; a single photograph showing the transit of the sun, at five different positions, barely cresting the horizon on Dec. 28, 1910; a large floating mining rig; "Leonhard Seppala and His Siberians," who won the 1915 and 1916 All-Alaska Sweepstakes "Ruby Derby"; Fox Ramsay and his team, who won second prize in the 1910 All-Alaska Sweepstakes; a herd of reindeer; a reindeer-drawn US Mail sled on the Teller Route; a hunter with his kayak and, spear, and dead seal; an "Eskimo Dance"; walrus sleeping on an ice floe; cod drying; native berry pickers; the midnight sun; and more.
Album, 7.5 x 11.5 in., containing 62 photographs ranging in size from 6 x 9 in. to 2.75 x 4 in., most about 3.25 x 5.5 in. First page pasted with a piece of birch bark upon which is inked, "Photos from the Land of the Midnight Sun/ F.H.G. Gibson/ Nome, Alaska." F.H.G. Gibson was the clerk to Alaska Division 2 US Attorney J.H. Hart, based in Nome (the judge of Division 2 was G.J. Lomen). The first ten pages all have one photograph and one photographic print of eight lines of the poem "The Kobuk Maiden." These are followed by many more photographs of Alaska Natives, including their methods of fishing, seal hunting and catching king crab. One photograph shows a reindeer draped in the American flag, pulling a sled with two women and several other US flags. Another shows an African-American child in a fur parka. The final 20 photographs are all 6 x 9 in. prints by Lomen Brothers, Nome, with titles in the negatives. Scenes include a view of the town from the Bering Sea; a single photograph showing the transit of the sun, at five different positions, barely cresting the horizon on Dec. 28, 1910; a large floating mining rig; "Leonhard Seppala and His Siberians," who won the 1915 and 1916 All-Alaska Sweepstakes "Ruby Derby"; Fox Ramsay and his team, who won second prize in the 1910 All-Alaska Sweepstakes; a herd of reindeer; a reindeer-drawn US Mail sled on the Teller Route; a hunter with his kayak and, spear, and dead seal; an "Eskimo Dance"; walrus sleeping on an ice floe; cod drying; native berry pickers; the midnight sun; and more.
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