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1898WRCAM32668Washington: United States Geological Survey 1898. 244pp. plus folding colored map. Original printed wrappers detached. Map with four neat closed tears. Text bright and clean. Very good. Report issued by the United States Geological Survey for the use of prospectors and miners including descriptions of routes to the Klondike and notes on the probable extent of gold-bearing deposits. The large folding map of Alaska is particularly fine and has some of the gold region shaded in bright yellow. WICKERSHAM 8223. United States Geological Survey unknown books
19542016Seward 1954. Near fine. 32pp. Original green printed wrappers stapled. An ephemeral telephone directory for the city of Seward Alaska population around 2000 people. With combined retail and personal listings the text also includes advertisements for local businesses including an Avon lady. unknown books
196020114Pomona California: Frashers Photo 1960. A glossy real photo postcard of the crowned happy beauty contest winner seated on her throne of ice; approx. 3 1/2"" x 5 1/2" size; with photographic studio name of Frashers Photo of Pomona California and identifiers on front no. F. 9099; postally unused; with some later pencil notes on back; light wear and in very good condition; an interesting beauty contest photograph from the Alaska entry at the middle part of the 20th century. Very Good. Frashers Photo unknown books
1976100116Fairbanks: the Grand Lodge 1976. 36p. 8.5x11 inch program book illus. with photos wraps. the Grand Lodge unknown books
5124ALAKSA ARCHIVE. Archive. 10 pieces. 1921-1922. Fort Liscum Alaska Territory. An archive of four letters signed “Alice†and written by Alice Donaldson in Alaska to her mother and aunt in Massachusetts. Donaldson her husband and their children lived on the Fort Liscum Army base from 1921 until the base’s closure in 1922. Written during the year that the Donaldsons lived on the base Alice talks about adjusting to life in Alaska and then having to move again within a year. Along with her letters are six small photographs of Alaska. a ALS. June 10 1921. Fort Liscum Alaska. “Dear Mother:- It is almost time for the brat to come back after mail for the south so I will tell you all we have been doing this week. Sunday was a wonderful day we took our lunch and walked out on the…Coming back we gathered seven kinds of wild flowers daisies buttercups violets wild sweet pea a light purple flower similar to our columbine only smaller a dark purple flower almost like our snap dragon and salmon berry blossoms. There are quantities of ferns everywhere. I have a centerpiece for my dining table made of a tin can cut down to two inches…With much love for father and yourself Aliceâ€. b ALS. June 30 1921. Fort Liscum Alaska. “Dear Mother :- If you could look in and see us I think you would say we have a very pretty and comfortable home. Out things arrived early Tuesday morning and they were all uncrated and mostly in place Tuesday night. The things which I ordered from Sears-Roebuck came at the same time…â€. c ALS. March 13 1922. Fort Liscum Alaska. “Dear Mother:- Can you image what it would be like to have a March wind blowing a gale with about three feet of loose snow on top of a crust That is what we have had for twenty-four hours sometimes we couldn’t see the nearest houses there are drifts every where the most bothersome one is in front of our dining room windows…We were all very much excited yesterday the order came confirming the rumor that Liscum is to be abandoned and asking how long it will take to get everything ready to be moved to Ft. Seward with about nine ft of snow on the ground we replied at least two months. George has asked for a Transport June tenth. As the order reads we go to Ft. Seward but George is still hoping to be brought back to the States and go to Benning. I rather dislike the idea of packing everything again in just one year!†d ALS. May 21 1922. Fort Liscum Alaska. “Dear Aunt Laura:- This is George’s birthday and we have been celebrating by having our first picnic of the season in a rocky cove down at the end of Swansport. We took frying pans and built a fire so as to cook beefsteak fry potatoes and make coffee. It certainly does taste good out of doors. In order to get to the camping place we had to walk quite a distance over…a short play in which Donald made his first appearance on the stage he did better than I expected and looked quite grown up in a long trouser suit. All the children were promoted with an average of about 90. We have all had bad colds but are feeling fine today. We were very sorry to hear that Uncle Perl has been so miserable and hope he will improve a lot and enjoy the summer he usually feels better when he can get out doors more. When I wrote you after Christmas I thought I spoke about Helen’s Sash it is perfectly stunning with her blue corduroy dress and she was so pleased with it. Much love to you both Aliceâ€. unknown books
1900WRCAM54627Seattle; Skagway 1900. Twelve photographs each approximately 4 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Overall very good. A collection of photographs taken by Seattle photographer Frank La Roche. La Roche 1853- 1934 a Philadelphia native transplanted to the Northwest established a photography studio in Seattle in 1889. He undertook many trips to Alaska documenting the Klondike Gold Rush at length from 1897 to 1899. This group contains images of Juneau Sitka Fort Wrangell here spelled Wrangle and Taku Glacier. Two images are of Chilkat Tlingit Indians and one photo of the Seymour Rapids in British Columbia is also included. Each is numbered and captioned in manuscript or in print within the negative. Exemplary images from this noted landscape photographer of Alaska and the West. unknown books
1939286138Seattle: Farwest Lithograph and Printing Co 1939. Map. Color Lithograph. 21" x 28".<br/><br/> This beautifully colored map of Alaska and the Gulf of Alaska shows the Alaskan boat lines from Seattle and was first drawn by Edward Camy for the Alaska Steamship Company in 1934. A great pictographic map includes an inset showing the Alaska Railways route from Seward to Fairbanks and the Richardson Automobile Highway. The bottom of the map shows a series of cartoons of events on the ship. In good condition a great example of Alaska.<br/><br/> Farwest Lithograph and Printing Co unknown books
1920328Chicago: Poole Brothers 1920. Very good. 55pp. Oblong 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Light wear. A nice copy of this photographically illustrated promotional for sights along rail and steamer lines in Alaska and Yukon owned by the White Pass and Yukon Route. With plenty of illustrations and information about points of interest between Skagway and Whitehorse. Poole Brothers unknown books
1910100825Pamphlet 3 1/2 x 6 pictorial wrappers stapled illustrated 55 pp. Slight wear and slight bend to some pages but very good to near fine. This little guide book to Alaska contains an amazing amount of information on the vast territory and its towns and cities as well as how to travel around it. Contains a couple of small maps to help the reader get around and even includes a rail schedule too. Additionally there are a number of small black and white photos that illustrate Alaska at the turn of the last century. books
1937220690n.p. White pass and Yukon Railway 1937. 1937. Oblong small 8vo. Three maps; b/w illustrations. 56 pages. Original pictorial wrappers. Very good. Soft cover. [n.p.] White pass and Yukon Railway [1937]. paperback books
1875WRCAM18480San Francisco 1875. 43pp. Original front wrapper bound into later half morocco. Very good. A propagandistic appeal by the unsuccessful bidders for a fur seal contract for the repeal of the so-called monopoly of the Alaska Commercial Company. Claims to present only the "facts" and calls on the people and press of America to petition Congress for the repeal the government granted to the Company for a monopoly in the fur seal trade. Includes a brief historical sketch of Alaska focusing on how her natural riches came into the hands of a few money-hungry robber barons and paints a dismal picture of the "serfdom" of the civilized natives on the fur seal islands of St. George and St. Paul. TOURVILLE 269. RICKS p.26. WICKERSHAM 1793. unknown books
1891243722Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Company 1891. First edition. Frontispiece maps and illustrations throughout. 418 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial gray-blue cloth. Bookplate. About fine and rare thus. First edition. Frontispiece maps and illustrations throughout. 418 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bruns S80 John Y. Huber Company unknown books
189029341New York: Cassell Publishing Company 1890. 2nd edition cf. Soliday II 232; Wickersham 2008. INSCRIBED presentation copy. Red cloth spine with light blue cloth boards; gilt spine lettering professionally recased. TEG. A square & tight VG copy. 194 pp. Profusely illustrated with some in color. Portrait. Map. Fold-out color plate of Muir Glacier. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 6" <br/><br/> Cassell Publishing Company hardcover books
9510SEATTLE MCCAFFREY CA 1936. TWO FOLDING BROCHURES VERY GOOD. SEATTLE, MCCAFFREY, CA 1936 unknown books
1885WRCAM18270Madison Wi 1885. 16pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Very fine. Advice for the emigrant and traveller to Alaska: how to get there and what to expect; plus the Organic Act of the Territory approved in 1884. Cowles was the commissioner for Alaska at the World's Cotton Exposition in New Orleans in 1885. Not in Ricks. TOURVILLE 1101. WICKERSHAM 3911. SMITH 2025. unknown books
1898300586Chicago: Poole Bros 1898. hardcover. very good. Large colored folding map laid in. 61 page pamphlet slim oblong 12mo stiff pictorial wrappers. Internally near fine covers are lightly soiled and corners and top of spine chipped. Chicago: Poole Bros. 1898. First Edition. Scarce. Very good.<br/><br/> Poole Bros unknown books
190423751Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1904. 47 Colored & black and white maps some double-page. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in quarter calf and pebbled black cloth spine split. Ex Libris of James Wickersham. 47 Colored & black and white maps some double-page. 1 vols. Folio. Government Printing Office unknown books
4499KODIAK ALASKA HUNTING PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE. An archive of nearly 100 black and white photographs emanating from a men’s hunting trip to Kodiak Alaska about 1950. There are images of men with fishing rods and rifles and dead bears crabs fish moose and seals. Some photographs show the men inside the cabin relaxing reading sleeping and cooking. There are also photographs of the early planes that brought tourists Alaskan scenery and small Alaskan towns. The images are in three sizes 5†x 7†5†x 3†and 2 ½†x 4 and all are in fine condition with minor faults such as chipped corners. A fine frontier photography archive. unknown books
194714430Alaska various: np nd ca. 1947. Very good. Oblong folio commercial hardcover album made by The Burkhardt Company Detroit model X 89500 13.5” x 10.75” x 2.5”. Screw binding 74 black paper pages with a single black and white gelatin print mounted recto only to each most measuring approximately 7.5" x 9” with brief typed captions mounted below. Additional print mounted to front cover; 75 photographs total. Album exterior moderately worn cloth dry and flaking. Three sections of material loss at outer edge of covers and to upper rear likely mouse-bitten similar loss to edges of final two pages not effecting photos. Two images missing captions. Photographs well preserved occasional mild wear. About very good. <br/><br/>An impressive collection of 75 well-annotated predominantly aerial photographs of pre-statehood Alaska likely compiled by a U.S. Army Officer stationed at Fort Richardson near Anchorage just after WWII. 49 images captured from aircraft of some of the most spectacular unspoiled environments anywhere. Cities settlements and geographical locations include Galena Ketchikan Port Alexander Sitka Port Althrop Skagway Juneau Fort Seward Valdez Anchorage Barrow Nome the Taku Glacier Mount McKinley Mount St. Elias and Mt. Moffet. The remaining 26 prints equally as beautiful though taken at ground level display the cultural and trade aspects present around 1947. Highlights include an Eskimo mother and daughter on Nelson Island fishing boats in Ketchikan totem poles on Wrangell Island a midnight baseball game and a full salmon scowl at a cannery in southeast Alaska. Five prints with lettering in the negative though none with clear evidence as to the purpose behind their creation. Clearly the work of a skilled photographer an immediately engaging collection of images. NOTE: High resolution scans of this complete album are available. np hardcover books
1959WRCAM23364N.p. 1959. Various paginations. Folding map. Tall folio. Later buckram. Original red wrappers bound in. Cancelled library stamps on titlepage. Else very good. Extensive collection of vital data on Alaskan counties place names boundaries and the like. hardcover books
1930WRCAM56103Various locations in Oregon and Alaska 1930. Approximately 325 photographs twenty postcards and real photo postcards a linen- backed map of Alaska and a few assorted ephemeral items all housed in a contemporary leather satchel. Generally minor wear some chipping to about twenty photographs. Overall very good. A treasure house of silent cinema photography from the Pacific Northwest and Alaska featuring over 300 images from THE CHECHAHCOS and other films produced in the orbit of the film's director Lewis H. Moomaw all retained by one of his crewmen Guerney William Hays. <br> <br> THE CHECHAHCOS released in 1924 was the first feature film shot in Alaska. "Cheechako" is a native word referring to a "greenhorn" or someone newly arrived in the mining districts of Alaska or northwestern Canada. A melodramatic tale of the Klondike Gold Rush the was directed by Lewis H. Moomaw of the Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation. The story was based in part on the experiences of the film's producer Austin E. Lathrop known as "Alaska's first home-grown millionaire." The film has been preserved in the National Film Registry and can easily be viewed on the internet. Offered here is a large collection of photographs and other ephemera once belonging to a CHECHAHCOS crew member named Guerney William Hays 1880-1952 including film stills snapshots from the set and other images of Alaska scenery. Many of the images match up with scenes from the completed film. The subject matter includes all that might be expected from a film produced in and about Alaska: glaciers dogsleds saloons archvillains and damsels in distress along with shots of the crew and technology that made the film possible. <br> <br> The largest and most professionally-produced photographs in the collection are eighty 8-x- 10-inch prints almost all of them clearly from the CHECHAHCOS shoot with twenty-one stamped on the verso by the Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation and with either a printed or manuscript title written along with the stamp reading "The Chechakos" the spelling of which was later tweaked to its release title. One of the stills shows the entire company of the Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation about 150 people in the snow beside their Pullman cars; two banners for the film company hang outside the rail cars. A separate shot of the film company shows their train at the entrance to McKinley Park with a banner hanging on the train reading "Private Car Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation Entrance to McKinley Park on the Alaska Railroad." Other stills show scenes from the film shots of the cast and crew preparing to start scenes posed scenes clearly intended for use as publicity stills cast group pictures behind-the-scenes shots of the cameramen and other crew with various equipment photographs of empty interiors perhaps to be used for continuity a few featuring the dog sled teams and more. In addition to documenting the production these images also present a rare view of Alaska in the early-20th century. <br> <br> The remaining 240 images most of which measure approximately 3 x 5 inches were likely not formally produced by the film company for use as publicity but are in fact production photographs and still stand as valuable visual documentation of the early filmmaking process. While some of these photos are more of the vernacular sort the great majority of the images show a mixture of preproduction production and set-related photographs from the film company's time in Alaska shooting THE CHECHAHCOS and from other production's attached to the career of Lewis H. Moomaw the film's director. A great number of these images were likely produced as working production photographs - executed for the use of the company during the shooting process scouting for locations documenting costumes set continuity set construction what might today be called craft services suggesting or documenting potential camera set-ups or as studies for potential publicity stills and more. While not created as traditional publicity products these images capture the early filmmaking process both in front of and behind the camera presenting a quite uncommon slice of film production history. The fact that they were produced during the production of a film in Alaska make them an even more valuable source of information on the filmmaking process in the 1920s in a most unusual place. Production stills are produced in very small quantities compared to publicity stills are often unique or close to unique records of a production have a much lower survival rate and are keenly sought after as historical records of the filmmaking process. <br> <br> One of the few captioned photographs shows four wives of the CHECHAHCOS cast and crew on a fishing expedition including Moomaw's wife and Mrs. Guerney Hays. A few other photographs show an actress posing with crude dummies that were apparently about to be sent to their doom in a canoe scene in the Alaskan wilderness. Other production photographs from Alaska feature scenes on glaciers one of which shows the exact spot from a moment in the opening minute of the film a young girl with a giant Alaskan crab who is also pictured in the larger professional images and is in the film film crews poised on icy ground dog sled teams identified locations in Skagway and more. <br> <br> One of the other films pictured here is likely CALL OF THE ROCKIES 1929. This western was filmed in Oregon the usual home of the filmmakers involved in the Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation with Moomaw as supervising producer. CALL OF THE ROCKIES was directed by Raymond K. Johnson one of the cinematographers on THE CHECHAHCOS and features two actors identified in pencil captions on the verso of photographs present here: Russell Simpson and Jim Mason. There are numerous photographs featuring a western wagon train and other images of the traditional western which either appeared in CALL OF THE ROCKIES or perhaps one of Moomaw's other films produced in Oregon in the 1920s - UNDER THE ROUGE 1925 or FLAMES 1926 the latter of which climaxed in a raging forest fire and featured an early screen appearance by Boris Karloff. <br> <br> All of the postcards feature Alaskan scenes or subjects and were most likely acquired while the film company was shooting in Alaska or produced for them while they were there. This is the case for at least one of the postcards - a Christmas greeting with the banner at bottom reading "Compliments of the Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation." The final item of note here is a folding linen- backed map of Alaska issued by the Alaska Steamship Company. The map measures about 21 x 30 inches and was issued in 1917. It was almost certainly taken along to Alaska by Hays for the filming of THE CHECHAHCOS linen- backed either before-hand or while in Alaska to prevent damage from over-use. The entire collection of photographs and ephemera is housed in a period leather satchel. <br> <br> These photographs were collected and retained by Guerney or Gernie William Hays 1880-1952 who spent a career in the early film industry mostly in Oregon. Some pieces of ephemera bear his name and some of the larger stills are annotated "Hays" on the verso. His 1918 draft registration lists him as a motion picture operator in Portland and his obituary lists him as a member of the International Alliance of Stage Employees. His only film credit in the Internet Movie Database is for THE CHECHAHCOS for which he is credited with "sets and lighting" and also an uncredited supporting role on screen. One of the larger-format photographs features a crew member in a cramped equipment room with dozens of lights and mounds of cables; this is almost certainly Hays himself or perhaps one of his assistants. One of the photo developer's envelopes bears the name of Hobart H. Brownell the cinematographer of THE CHECHAHCOS. Two of the photographs here are inscribed to Hays - one from the actor Bert Sprotte in 1919 and the other from banjo player Eddie Peabody who has inscribed his portrait to Hays writing that "No finer stage manager I ever worked with." Another photograph shows Peabody's elaborate stage show. <br> <br> THE CHECHAHCOS remains an important early film for its authentic depiction of Alaskan life. Movies about the great white north were popular with early film audiences but were usually filmed in California. When Lewis H. Moomaw proposed to shoot a film entirely in Alaska about the days of the Klondike Gold Rush in the territory locals in Alaska jumped at the chance to find him funding. Upon arrival in Anchorage fully half of the town showed up to greet the film company. The cast and crew would spend three months filming in and around Anchorage the small mining town of Girdwood on Childs Glacier Abercrombie Rapids and Eyak Lake. The film premiered in the Empress Theatre in Anchorage on December 11 1923 and played to packed houses across Alaska the next year. Sadly the film never found a large audience in the continental United States playing occasionally over the next two years before falling into obscurity. The film was essentially lost until the year 2000 when a print was restored by archivists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Three years later the film was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. <br> <br> The Library of Congress's press release when they selected THE CHECHAHCOS to the National Film Registry describes the film as such: "This independent regional film was the first feature film produced in Alaska and is renowned for its spectacular location footage of the lonely and unfathomable Alaskan wilderness frenzied dogsled pursuits and life-and-death struggles on the glaciers." <br> <br> A wonderful collection of great historical interest for early film scholars and of the history of Alaskan cinema. hardcover books
19341007At sea 1934. Very good. Five issues of The Morning Alaskan each 4pp. Also four leaves of manuscript four mimeo news sheets two passenger lists thirteen menus and related material. Light wear and chipping to edges of newsletters and news sheets heavier to news sheets. Light wear overall. A nice archive of ephemera collected during a voyage from Seattle to Alaska aboard the S.S. Alaska. Founded in 1894 the Alaska Steamship Company ran cargo and passenger service to Alaska from Seattle through the mid-1950s at which point it became a freight-only company until its demise in 1971. The materials here likely saved from a voyage in June 1934 provide a glimpse into Alaskan cruise tourism during the height of the Great Depression. There are four daily mimeo "news sheets" titled "Sense and Nonsense" which are filled with one-liner inside jokes about the goings-on about the ship: "Mr Sullivan his own is still holding against all comers and how!!" and "Who was the boyfriend in Ketchikan Rose The flowers at least were beautiful." Additionally thirteen menus for breakfast lunch and dinner meals. The shipboard newspaper The Morning Alaskan features ads and a vignette of the ship on the first page followed by a mixture of news and tidbits from locales across the globe. One issue includes news about the dock strike in San Francisco the reappearance of a missing Japanese Vice Consul in Shanghai and sports news. It was a fairly sophisticated production presumably with the first page pre-printed and then the interior mimeographed aboard ship. The manuscript leaves contain brief notes about the voyage. Upon leaving Seattle on June 13 the author made the following notes providing an insight into the other passengers on the ship: "Six mo. truce made. First boat in 6 mo. why Eng. boats no help to Alaskans. Heavy cargo interesting loading - autos personal Bride soldiers lecturer natives Alaskans going home prospectors old men going back missionaries teachers natives contractors for school projects "nails counted." Orchestra steward. News Daily - ship personals sight seeing paper. Food number of meals & type." He notes stops at Juneau and Hawkes Inlet: "Juneau again. Hawkes Inlet at 9:30 p.m. light. Beautiful. Private homes at most canneries Gov. visiting Hawkes Inlet came on board." Though brief his notes do provide interesting details about the voyage. Notably this archive also highlights possible Chinese migration to Alaska perhaps for the cannery industry based on the passenger lists. The northbound passenger list from Seattle to Skagway on June 14 lists eighty roundtrip passengers as well as 107 passengers with destinations at various ports along the way such as Ketchikan Wrangell Petersburg Juneau and Skagway. It also lists among the passengers sixty "Orientals" and forty-six passengers traveling "Oriental Steerage." At Hawk Inlet thirty-one "Orientals" disembarked -- no white passengers -- twenty-nine of them traveling steerage. An interesting group of ephemera made even more interesting by the addition of the Asian-American component in the passenger lists. unknown books
1907WRCAM54859Racine Wi.: W.D. Harney Photogravure Co. 1907. Nine parts each bound separately and uniformly complete with titlepage in first volume. 26pp. of text printed rectos only and eighty photogravure plates. Folio. Publisher's rosewood cloth backstrip and burgundy wrappers front covers gilt. Mild fraying to spine cloth some wear mild chipping and light soiling to covers. Top corner of first few leaves of first volume creased. Internally clean. Overall very good. A substantial production providing a rich photographic tapestry of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska in the early twentieth century. Each volume contains nine photogravure plates with only eight in the eighth volume most full-page but some with more than one image per plate. Each part contains two or three text leaves printed rectos only. Altogether the work is comprised of eighty photogravure plates with tissue guards containing over 100 distinct photographic images. <br> <br> Numerous photogravures depict indigenous Eskimos and other people along with stunning views of rivers mountains mining agriculture landscapes dogsled teams totem poles ships and various aspects of life in the Pacific Northwest. Highlights include the "Largest Fir in Washington" "Bird's-Eye of Nome Alaska" "An Arctic Musher" and the "Eskimo Salmon Dance." The photogravures were taken by a number of prominent western photographers including Frank H. Nowell W.P. Romans Thomas W. Tolman Wylie T. Dennison and Asahel Curtis estranged brother of Edward S. Curtis. The gravures are printed in sepia blue or green tints and retain their clarity and power more than a century after their printing. <br> <br> "A magnificent work relating mostly to Alaska with many fine full-page tinted plates" - Decker. "Contains fine plates of scenery in Seattle and Alaska" - Soliday. DECKER 26:6. SOLIDAY I:1032. WICKERSHAM 412. W.D. Harney Photogravure Co. hardcover books
1899249256Washington D.C. 1899. 4 pp. 4to. Old folds else fine. 4 pp. 4to. The letter traces the diplomatic claims of Great Britain in Alaska and goes into detail about the 2 contested parts the "Portland Channel" and the parallel 50 degrees to Mt. St. Elias. <br/>He is grandfather of John Foster and Allen Dulles. He was also TR's head commissioner in the negotiations on Alaska-Canadian boundaries in 1903. unknown books
1931313016Brockton Mass: Harold C. Keith 1931. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Text in two columns. 28 pp. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 7 inches. Wood grain wrappers with pictorial onlay text gathered with cord. Cover onlay creased with a few old tape ghosts ink notation to front blank Goodspeed sales receipt 1957 bookplate of Stephen Ellsworth Clow and Ruth Hazen Clow. Green half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Text in two columns. 28 pp. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 7 inches. ONLY COPY. Well written and nicely illustrated privately printed account of an Alaska hunting expedition. The party of four organized by H. Wendell Endicott comprised Endicott George Perry Latham Reed and Harold C. Keith whose diary for 14 August to 7 October 1930 is printed here. Latham Reed Sr. and Gen. R. E. Wood joined the party for the first stage of the journey to Big Delta. <br/>The hunting began on 24 August when a herd of caribou passed across the road in front of their car. Mr. Collins assistant district attorney at Fairbanks" stepped out and showed us how to shoot by dropping a big caribou on the first shot."<br/><br/>Twenty-one miles up the road from Big Delta the party left Mr. Collins' car and joined their crew of 8 and 24 horses and began their trip. They hunted bear and moose and caribou and sheep near the Gerstle River and Elting Creek and Jarvis encountered heavy snow saw the northern lights and completed a large loop back to Twenty-Six Mile Cabin during their stay.<br/><br/>Endicott 1880-1954 was author of Adventures with Rod and Harpoon in the Florida Keys. Harold C. Keith Amherst class of 1908 and Endicott were both shoe manufacturers in Massachusetts. Keith was president of the George E. Keith Co. in Brockton<br/><br/>The only other copy of this book recorded is a photocopy in the Candace Waugaman Collection at the Rasmuson Library University of Alaska Fairbanks<br/><br/>RARE. Not in OCLC not in Heller Biscotti Harold C. Keith unknown books
