Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 6
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
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. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Davis, Jefferson Columbus,--1828-1879--Homes and haunts--Alaska--Sitka.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 7
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
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. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska)--Pictorial works.
On the reverse side of print: "One of Prof. Thoms earliest prints. The Medical School on York Street. To the left is the former Dispensary. To the right and in the rear the Laboratory Building." Signed in pencil.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist.
Call Number:
24 17 791P Copy 5
Collection Title:
Castle of Otranto.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Portrait of Lady Mary Coke, bust length, in profile to the left; wearing a plain headdress, a ruffled choker, and a low-cut gown.
Description:
Date of production based on artist's death date., Former owners include R.S. Holford and J.O. Jardine Binnie. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from E. Mathews, February 1939., Inlaid opposite page xiii in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791]., Title devised by curator., and Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card.
Subject (Name):
Binnie, J. O. Jardine--Ownership., Coke, Mary,--Lady,--1726-1811--Portraits., and Holford, Robert Stayner,--1808-1892--Ownership.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 2
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
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. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.