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English: Nushagak from the water, ca. 1912   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
John E. Thwaites  (1863–1940)  wikidata:Q46211791
 
Alternative names
John Edward Thwaites
Description American postal worker and photographer
– was employed in Alaska by the US federal government as a postal clerk for the Railway Mail Service during the early part of the 20th century, and he traveled the route from Valdez to Unalaska onboard a wood hulled mailboat delivering mail to the coastal communities; he was also an amateur photographer.
Date of birth/death 1863 Edit this at Wikidata 1940 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Eastwood, Ontario, Canada Mercer Island
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creator QS:P170,Q46211791
Title
English: Nushagak from the water, ca. 1912
Description
English: Caption on image: Nushagak, Alaska PH Coll 247.283
Nushagak Bay in northern Bristol Bay, at the confluence of the Wood and Nushagak Rivers. It lies 327 miles southwest of Anchorage. The area was inhabited by both Eskimos and Athabascans and became a trade center when Russians erected the Alexandrovski Redoubt (Post) in 1818. Local Native groups and Natives from the Kuskokwim Region, the Alaska Peninsula and Cook Inlet mixed together as they came to visit or live at the post. The community was known as Nushagak by 1837, when a Russian Orthodox mission was established. In 1881 the U.S. Signal Corps established a meteorological station at Nushagak. In 1884 the first salmon cannery in the Bristol Bay region was constructed by Arctic Packing Co. The city of Dillingham is now located at the extreme northern end of Nushagak Bay.
  • Subjects (LCTGM): Nushagak (Alaska); Nushagak Bay (Alaska); Waterfronts--Alaska--Nushagak; Piers & wharves--Alaska--Nushagak; Boats--Alaska--Nushagak; Bays (Bodies of water)--Alaska
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English: United States--Alaska--Nushagak
Date circa 1912
date QS:P571,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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182
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English: John E. Thwaites Photographs of Alaska
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The author died in 1940, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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