Photo Catalog Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Front Street looking towards the Stedman Hotel, circa 1913 |
Image # |
2012.2.11.1 |
Object Name |
Negative, Sheet Film |
Date |
1913 circa |
Photographer |
Hillard, Frederick |
Location |
Ketchikan, Alaska |
Description |
Front Street looking towards the Stedman Hotel, circa 1913 |
Provenance |
Note: totem pole on the left is in front of the Kubley's store. There are at least two mentions of the store in relation to a totem pole outside the business: Notation from City Council minutes: July 2 1913 W. H Gilman and Geo Irving appeared to protest the location of a totem pole in front of Kubley's store on Front Street. Daily Progressive Miner, March 22, 1916 Hoisting totem pole in front of Kubley's store. Note: images 2012.2.11.1 & 75.6.10.272 are taken on the same day, from the same rooftop, by different photographers. Both images were likely taken on the Fourth of July in 1913 based on the presence of the Tongass Trading concrete building (1913). The building interior still appears to be under construction. Also appears images 2012.2.11.1-.3 are taken on the same day. 09/19/2020 ERB Dating note: Tongass Trading concrete building opened in 1913 |
Search Terms |
Celebration Dentist Flag Front Street Ketchikan Kubley's Parade Stedman Hotel Stedman Hotel Tongass Trading Company Totem Pole |
Relation |
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Notes on Related Objects |
75.6.10.272 & 2012.2.11.1 images taken on the same day and from the same rooftop. 2012.2.11.1 - .3 images taken on the same day in sequence along Front Street. |
Credit line |
Ketchikan Museums, KM 2012.2.11.1 |