Alaska Postcard Collectors: I've Started A New Group Just For You.

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The group will feature, primarily, rare RPPC. I started this group in memory of two great Alaska postcard collectors, Candy Waugaman, a close friend of mine for 40 years who passed away last month, and John H. Grainger, author of Collecting Alaska Postcards, as a place to share old Alaska postcards in your collection. We are going to try to keep it to pre-1940 postcards unless you have a great, later, one. Thanks.

I'm not specifically an Alaska card collector, but here's one of my faves:

I have a few early real photo postcards of Alaska which I am happy to share here...The first one is from the 1930s I believe, showing the steamer Tutshi at the Taku Landing. Today the Taku area is a great tourist destination with float planes providing the quickest way to get there. Those same planes often take their passengers out to see the Taku glacier which feeds into the Taku river. The second postcard is a bit later, late 1950s, showing a Kotzebue kayak race. This small town is around 26 miles from the arctic circle, and occupied by the Inupiat Eskimos who have been there since the 1500s.

Thanks for reviving this thread. I have a few more I can add.

Here are two of the dozens of postcards sold at the 1909 Seattle World's Fair depicting members of various native populations from Alaska, Yukon, and regions up there. The official card from the exhibition identifies them as Eskimos. The term Eskimo refers to the indigenous people groups of far northern North America, but is widely viewed as offensive or inappropriate today. The term was imposed by non-Indigenous colonizers. The variation "Skimo: is likewise not encouraged today.
The second card taken near their "snow capped tent structure" is a strange mix also, with an assemblage of mariachi band players posing with the native group. The middle group in this card looks like they are from an Asian country, perhaps Tibet? Someone more knowledgeable might let us know here.
Thanks Scotty

I was hoping more members would post on this topic because I really like these old territorial scenes from very remote spots.

Here are a few others I've picked up. The last one holds special interest to me because the two mines on Douglas Island were part of the huge Treadwell complex. This was eventually abandoned in the 1930s, after a massive cave-in and flood in 1917. The whole area is now a historical park, with lots of old remains of the mining operation just lying about.

Here's a card that I found really interesting after studying it. Look back at the photo I posted of rusting wheels, then look at this card depicting the hundreds of stamp mills at the Treadwell Mine. I think these are the wheels!

I always find the cards with people are the most interesting.

Taku Glacier is not far from Juneau and still has day cruises for tourists.

The shot of the Jefferson at Taku Glacier is great. I enjoy seeing the old watercraft, especially with a backdrop like that.