2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Early albumen photograph of the town of Valdez, Alaska, 5-1/4” x 4-1/4,” mounted, circa 1900, fine. In the foreground is a painted sign on a large building, “A.L. Levy & Co. General Merchandise,” an example of early Alaskain Jewish mercantile. Because the Port of Valdez was an ice-free port, a town developed there in 1898. Some steamship companies promoted the Valdez Glacier Trail as a better way to reach the Klondike gold fields or as a better way to find new gold fields in Alaska than the route from Skagway.
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