Alaska views 1911-1913 James Geoghegan
This album is photographs taken by J.T. Geoghegan and postcards purchased by him during his time in Alaska. Jim went to Alaska in 1897 as a prospector in the Yukon gold rush. He learned early on that he could make more money supplying the gold camps than he could prospecting. He lost all of his prop...
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ftwashingtonrh:oai:www.washingtonruralheritage.org:orcas/5264 2023-05-15T18:48:19+02:00 Alaska views 1911-1913 James Geoghegan Geoghegan, James T., 1869-1953 Alaska 1910s (1910-1919) image/jpeg http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org:2012/u?/orcas,5264 unknown Washington State Library Washington Rural Heritage Orcas Island Heritage -- James T. Geoghegan Collection; The materials in this collection are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Rights may be reserved; responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish or reproduce rests with the user. For additional information, please contact the Orcas Island Historical Museum. Privately owned holding institution: private collection of Steve Geoghegan; extent and medium: Album cover; dimensions: 13 in. x 10.24 in.; other physical details: Some fading has occurred Albums; Photograph albums; Photographic postcards; Photographic prints; Photographs; Transportation & Travel; Agriculture & Natural Resources; Immigration & American Expansion; Still Image ftwashingtonrh 2017-01-22T16:37:18Z This album is photographs taken by J.T. Geoghegan and postcards purchased by him during his time in Alaska. Jim went to Alaska in 1897 as a prospector in the Yukon gold rush. He learned early on that he could make more money supplying the gold camps than he could prospecting. He lost all of his property to a cabin fire in 1906, and the photographs he had left back home in Eastsound were destroyed when the home he and his brother Fred had built in 1889 for their mother and siblings burned to the ground in 1904. Jim returned to Eastsound in January 1914, having made his way back to Seattle just as the New Year was being rung in. No doubt he had several other albums of his earlier period in Alaska, but these, like the early views of Eastsound in the last decade of the nineteenth century, have not survived. The typed label on the cover of this album says 1911-1916. The ink above is indeed difficult to read, but should say 1913. Still Image Alaska Yukon Washington Rural Heritage (Washington State Library) Yukon |
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This album is photographs taken by J.T. Geoghegan and postcards purchased by him during his time in Alaska. Jim went to Alaska in 1897 as a prospector in the Yukon gold rush. He learned early on that he could make more money supplying the gold camps than he could prospecting. He lost all of his property to a cabin fire in 1906, and the photographs he had left back home in Eastsound were destroyed when the home he and his brother Fred had built in 1889 for their mother and siblings burned to the ground in 1904. Jim returned to Eastsound in January 1914, having made his way back to Seattle just as the New Year was being rung in. No doubt he had several other albums of his earlier period in Alaska, but these, like the early views of Eastsound in the last decade of the nineteenth century, have not survived. The typed label on the cover of this album says 1911-1916. The ink above is indeed difficult to read, but should say 1913. |
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Geoghegan, James T., 1869-1953 |
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Geoghegan, James T., 1869-1953 |
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Geoghegan, James T., 1869-1953 |
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Alaska views 1911-1913 James Geoghegan |
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Alaska views 1911-1913 James Geoghegan |
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Alaska views 1911-1913 James Geoghegan |
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Alaska views 1911-1913 James Geoghegan |
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Alaska views 1911-1913 James Geoghegan |
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alaska views 1911-1913 james geoghegan |
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Washington State Library |
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http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org:2012/u?/orcas,5264 |
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Alaska 1910s (1910-1919) |
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Yukon |
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Alaska Yukon |
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Alaska Yukon |
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Privately owned holding institution: private collection of Steve Geoghegan; extent and medium: Album cover; dimensions: 13 in. x 10.24 in.; other physical details: Some fading has occurred |
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Washington Rural Heritage Orcas Island Heritage -- James T. Geoghegan Collection; |
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The materials in this collection are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Rights may be reserved; responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish or reproduce rests with the user. For additional information, please contact the Orcas Island Historical Museum. |
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