Our City Front

Description

Title: Our City Front
Creator: Fuller, John A., 1828-1909
Abstract: Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description: John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California.
Title devised by cataloger.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Drawings
Pencil drawings
Resource Type: Paintings & Drawings
Subject (Geographic): Alaska--Pictorial works.
Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.

Access: Public
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Citation: John A. Fuller, Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.