Alaska photograph album circa 1922-1946 : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brady, Golden Olive, 1875 or 1876-1946.

Alaska--Photographs.

Alaska.

Akiak (Alaska)--Photographs.

Akiak (Alaska).

Kotzebue (Alaska)--Photographs.

Kotzebue (Alaska).

Nome (Alaska)--Photographs.

Nome (Alaska).

Alaska Natives.

Public hospitals.

Local Subjects:

Brady, Golden Olive, 1875 or 1876-1946.

Genre:

photograph albums.

Photographs.

Manuscripts, English -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Schimmel purchased the album from Michael Lang in 2004.

Physical Description:

1 volume (16 leaves) : chiefly illustrations ; 29 x 40 cm + 1 clipping + 1 hand-decorated portrait

Production:

Alaska, 1946.

Other Title:

cover title : Olive Golden Brady [sic]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Biography/History:

No compiler or photographer indicated on item. Clippings are mostly about Mrs. Golden Olive Brady, a government nurse who served the people of remote western Alaska for about twenty years. She retired in 1938. Clipping announcing her adoption of an Indigenous boy named Johnny Dimoska, age 6, laid in leaf 16 recto. Brady's obituary is tipped in leaf 16 recto. She died in 1946.

Summary:

Photograph album with approximately 170 photographs and photo postcards and approximately ten newspaper clippings tipped and laid in. Inscribed captions on some pages. Clippings focus on events in the life of Golden Olive Brady. Some photographs are of prominent people including Knud Rasmussen, Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Howard Taft, aviator/explorer George Hubert Wilkins, polar pilot Carl Ben Elison, pilot Joe Crawson and his plane Swallow, Richard Byrd, Chief Thomas and Chief Esmialka. Photographs include views of Bethel, Kotzebue, Point Barrow, Tanana, and Akiak, Alaska; the SS Victoria; Point Hope cemetery; the Rex Beach cabin; sled dogs; fishing; portraits of Indigenous people and families; whale butchering; the Nalukataq dance (in which people are flung high into the air on nets or skins); ivory carvers; hospitals and government buildings; the church; totem poles; and two time-lapse photographs of the sun's movement near the horizon in winter.

Notes:

Bookseller's description tipped in upside down front cover verso. Binding not original; seller's description describes the item as being 16 disbound leaves. 1922 is the earliest dated caption; 1946 is the year of Golden Olive Brady's death.

Cited as:

Alaska photograph album circa 1922-1946 (Ms. Coll. 1684). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1533176960