St. James Mission, Tenana, Alaska, circa 1900

St. James Mission was an Episcopal mission established in Alaska, near the confluence of the Tanana and Yukon Rivers. The point of land between the rivers had been a historic trading place for Athabascan peoples. Built over the years between 1887 and 1900, the site grew to include a school, hospital...

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Main Author: Nowell, Frank H.
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: 1900
Subjects:
Missions > Alaska > Tenana
Yukon
Athabascan
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/12963
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spelling ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/12963 2023-05-15T15:26:09+02:00 St. James Mission, Tenana, Alaska, circa 1900 Nowell, Frank H. United States--Alaska--Tenana circa 1900 Photographed from original photograph using Nikon D800 D-SLR camera as a 7360 x 4912 TIFF image in Adobe RBG color, then cropped and resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CC, JPEG quality measurement 5. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/12963 unknown Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection SHS2020 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/12963 http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en MOHAI, [image number] Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Missions--Alaska--Tenana photograph; image Stillimage 1900 ftuwashingtonlib 2019-03-16T23:37:26Z St. James Mission was an Episcopal mission established in Alaska, near the confluence of the Tanana and Yukon Rivers. The point of land between the rivers had been a historic trading place for Athabascan peoples. Built over the years between 1887 and 1900, the site grew to include a school, hospital, and sawmill, as well as the reading room and bell tower shown here. Initially there were two worship places at the mission: St. James Mission, for whites, and the Mission of Our Savior for native people. Handwritten on image: Photo by F. H. Nowell Handwritten beneath image: St. James Mission, Tanana, Alaska Caption information sources: Tananachiefs.org website; LitSite Alaska website. 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: b&w; 19.75 x 15.5 in. Still Image Athabascan Alaska Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Yukon
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topic Missions--Alaska--Tenana
spellingShingle Missions--Alaska--Tenana
Nowell, Frank H.
St. James Mission, Tenana, Alaska, circa 1900
topic_facet Missions--Alaska--Tenana
description St. James Mission was an Episcopal mission established in Alaska, near the confluence of the Tanana and Yukon Rivers. The point of land between the rivers had been a historic trading place for Athabascan peoples. Built over the years between 1887 and 1900, the site grew to include a school, hospital, and sawmill, as well as the reading room and bell tower shown here. Initially there were two worship places at the mission: St. James Mission, for whites, and the Mission of Our Savior for native people. Handwritten on image: Photo by F. H. Nowell Handwritten beneath image: St. James Mission, Tanana, Alaska Caption information sources: Tananachiefs.org website; LitSite Alaska website. 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: b&w; 19.75 x 15.5 in.
format Still Image
author Nowell, Frank H.
author_facet Nowell, Frank H.
author_sort Nowell, Frank H.
title St. James Mission, Tenana, Alaska, circa 1900
title_short St. James Mission, Tenana, Alaska, circa 1900
title_full St. James Mission, Tenana, Alaska, circa 1900
title_fullStr St. James Mission, Tenana, Alaska, circa 1900
title_full_unstemmed St. James Mission, Tenana, Alaska, circa 1900
title_sort st. james mission, tenana, alaska, circa 1900
publishDate 1900
url http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/12963
op_coverage United States--Alaska--Tenana
geographic Yukon
geographic_facet Yukon
genre Athabascan
Alaska
Yukon
genre_facet Athabascan
Alaska
Yukon
op_source Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI)
op_relation Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection
SHS2020
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