Buildings and building construction at Coppermount, Prince of Wales Island, circa 1903

On verso of image: Copper-Mount. Dated: about 1903-04. H.E. Hunt, Photographer, Ketchikan, Alaska PH Coll 334.Hunt.1 Coppermount was a village on the southwest coast of Prince of Wales Island, at the head of Copper Harbor, east of Hetta Inlet. The Coppermount post office was established here in 1900...

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Main Author: Hunt, H. E.
Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
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Wooden buildings > Alaska > Coppermount
Building construction > Alaska > Coppermount
Scaffolding > Alaska > Coppermount
Coppermount (Alaska) > Buildings
structures
etc
Hetta
Prince of Wales Island
Ketchikan
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/79
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Summary:On verso of image: Copper-Mount. Dated: about 1903-04. H.E. Hunt, Photographer, Ketchikan, Alaska PH Coll 334.Hunt.1 Coppermount was a village on the southwest coast of Prince of Wales Island, at the head of Copper Harbor, east of Hetta Inlet. The Coppermount post office was established here in 1900 and transferred to Sulzer in 1907. This former mining setttlement is shown as abandoned on current sources. [Source: Donald Orth. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1967.]

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