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- Creator:
- Fuller, John A., 1828-1909
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2595
- Collection Title:
- Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 5
- 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.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A Ruined Saw Mill, Believed to [be] haunted by the late Emperor Nicholas of Russia