Street scene in Nome, Alaska showing the Behring Saloon, circa 1910

• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division
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• Subjects: Business enterprises > Alaska > Nome; Streets > Alaska > Nome; Wooden buildings > Alaska > Nome; Behring Saloon (Nome; Alaska); Bars (Drinking establishments) > Alaska > Nome; Nome (Alaska) > Buildings; structures; etc; Norway; Saloon; St Michael; The Beaches; eskimo*; Inupiaq; Ketchikan; Nome; Alaska; Lapland
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PH Coll 1154.22 The Behring Saloon was owned by Alfred Laurence Schow, who was born August 2, 1875, in Minnesota. In 1898, Schow was a volunteer from Minnesota in the Spanish American War. He was living in Nome in 1910, but by 1917, he had moved to Ketchikan. In 1920, he was single and working as a...