Wrangell History
By Pat Roppel and the Friends of the Library
Prohibition Recipe
Prohibition- when it was illegal to sell, make, smuggle or drink alcoholic beverages-
came to Alaska in January 1, 1918. British Columbia went dry in July 1917. In May 1917, it became illegal in the United States to serve liquor to a serviceman. Alaska had its own Bone Dry Law in addition to the federal amendment law.
Ingenious Alaskans found ways to make “bathtub gin”, “home brew”, and “white lightening”, as well as other fermented products. The strangest one I have heard of is this account in 1922:
“Eat a piece of raisin pie and a cake of yeast, drink a pint of water, and then pull your chair up to a hot stove. In ten minutes, to test the kick, get up and try to walk around the chair."
Waitresses in cafes say numerous patrons have standard order for raisin pie and a cake of yeast. None have been arrested for having liquor on the hip and none of the restaurants have been locked up as bootleggers.
Wrangell Island Non-Indigenous species
Most of us know elk were transplanted to Etolin Island in the 1980’s and they have migrated onto Wrangell Island. Elk were not our first non-indigenous species. Pheasants and rabbits were brought to the island. Mongolian pheasants were planted in 1941 by the Alaska Game Commission. A year later the birds were reported to be doing well, so a plan was made to plant Kaleege pheasants, native to the Himalayas of Asia. I haven’t found if the latter were imported and released. Eventually the original transplanted birds vanished, undoubtedly with the help of local dogs and hunters.
Wrangell Fire Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stocked rabbits from Whidbey Island and Washington in the summer of 1951. People were asked not to hunt the animals until they multiplied and moved around the island. Apparently the transplant was not successful.
Wrangell: 1902
(Other Newspapers editors liked to write about various towns in southeast. A Juneau editor visited Wrangell and wrote the following description in 1902)
“Wrangell is putting on metropolitan airs and if the independent and progressive element, assisted be a well –edited newspaper, are not handicapped by a small but determined moss-back element, it will land a municipal organization and place Wrangell upon the same basis as its neighboring towns in Southeast.
“Wrangell has its general merchandise stores, saloons, butcher shops, barbershops, and hotel, and native population of 200, and is rapidly reaching the 1,000 population mark.
“The old sloppy, ill-smelling and un-presentable main thoroughfare has been converted into wooden-paved boulevard, and to the founders of the town thanks can be given for laying out a street of fully 75 feet wide. A remarkable feature of the town is the total lack of fire protection, there being absolutely no facilities outside of the “bucket brigade” to protect eleven mercantile stores from fires.
“Wrangell needs municipal government and a water system and is destined to rank among the solid cities of Alaska. But it is up to her citizens to secure theses advantages.
In reply, the Wrangell editor wrote that he did not believe “that Wrangell is yet quite ready for municipal government. The reason is there are many expenses connected with municipal organization that would be a burden for our citizens to meet under a charter such as is granted to Alaskan town.
“Could we have a charter,” he asked “that would give the town ALL the saloon licenses, and then the town could live without being a burden upon the people. This would help maintain schools, pay officials and meet other necessary expenses that people would have to dig into their pockets to support.
Licenses? “The only reason I drink so much is to support the school.” More than one tippler gave that excuse after 1900, and there was a reason to the rational. The federal government started a liquor license fee in 1899. – A minimum of $500 in small towns like Wrangell. Licenses were imposed on merchandise stores and other businesses. In 1900, when towns where permitted to incorporate, half the license fees collected within a town would be refunded to support the schools. The editor wanted ALL the license fees. In Wrangell, the duties an incorporated town normally managed were by the Chamber of Commerce. The schools were run by missionaries and about the same the of the Juneau editor’s visit, the people of Wrangell asked the Presbyterian mission for a school building. The saloon licenses reaped funds for the federal government. There will be no public utilities and, as we will see in the next story, a franchise ended up providing the first electricity.
Electric Lights for Wrangell
When did the residents and businesses first have electricity during the long winter hours? Electricity supplied to everyone who could afford it from a generating plant?
The first mention I have found comes from a Ketchikan newspaper in mid-summer 1904: "The ancient town of Wrangell will have electric lights." The story went on to say a franchise has been or will be given to a party” so it could put in a plant “large enough for all practical purposes." The party had to furnish 16-candle lights at a maximum price of a dollar per month for midnight service and $1.25 for an all-night service.
These lights, producing equivalent to 16 candles, were incandescent lamps. Electric current passes through a thin line filament, heating it and causing the filament to get white hot. The enclosing glass bulb prevented oxygen from reaching the filament that it would soon destroy. Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp in 1880 although he was not the only person to experiment with the concept. Today’s regular light bulbs work on the same theory. In 1904, when electricity became available to Wrangellites, other small towns were obtaining lights. Many of the bigger towns had electrical utilities companies before 1900: Anaheim, California – 1895; Seattle – 1886; New Orleans – 1892, for example. A few examples of turn of the century small towns are New Bern, North Carolina that had its first light plant in 1901 as did El Paso, Texas, and Santa Fe,
New Mexico. At the later, 1 to 5 lights in a residence cost 20 cents each; In 1903 Brocton, MA receives its first municipal electric lighting plant and charged 45 cents per light.
After Wrangell, two examples are Ashland, Oregon in 1908 and Port Orchard, WA in 1912.
At the latter, subscribers paid $1 a month for each 16- candle light.
It was not unusual for producers of the electricity to have different classes of use.
In Wrangell, lights could stay on until midnight or all night. Did someone click switches on an electric panel at midnight? What time did the lights come back on?Was the midnight/ all night rates for street lights only? Or could you have it all at home for “night owl” activities?
The editor of 1904 Ketchikan newspaper expressed how smart Wrangell was to put in the franchise agreement so that the town in lieu of taxes, would receive five percent of all gross receipts in excess of $ 3,000.
In October of 1904, the COTTAGE CITY steamship brought all the machinery and materials for the electric light plant except the boiler and dynamo, and that was coming on the next trip of the HUMBOLDT. E.H. Lyons, the manager, told the Ketchikan reporter that he hoped to have everything in readiness in flood the “ancient, but none the less active and enterprising berg” with the light in or before December 1. : “A dynamo was the first electrical generator capable of delivering power for industry. The plant did not provide electricity on December 1st, but in late January or early February, 1905. We weren't’t far behind Ketchikan. In January 1905 the first street lamps in that community were lit. The next information I find is in the first issue of the Wrangell Newspaper in 1905. Wrangell electric Light and power was started with E.H. Lyons elected as manager, L.J. Cole treasurer and Lauros Milligan as secretary. The paper reports that legal steps had been taken to incorporate, and these were expected to be “perfect at an early date.”
This company incorporated for $5,000 capital. There were 200 shares at $25 and over half of these by the first of 1905 had been sold. The remainders were for sale with a quarter cash at time of purchases and 3 monthly installments, (Equal payments of $6.25). The readers were assured that “cost to operate the plant will reduce to one man until demands of business make it absolutely necessary that “ cost to operate the plant will be reduced to one man until demands of business make it absolutely necessary for more help. “ One man had agreed to do all electrical and emergency work. More assurances were given: watering down stock by splitting it was prohibited by franchise. The sales pitch ends with “There is no reason why this shock should not be a gilt edged investment. “ Then in what we might consider a rather casual statement, we learn “your subscription can be handed to any officer.”
The Newspaper goes on to say “the plant is located where fuel may be had at least possible cost.” In late March in 1905, the company built a shed for housing the fuel.
The electric light plant was shut down on the 1st of June 1905 during those long days, and all the machinery was torn up and a new foundation was put in. In its first five months, business was satisfactory and more than paid for expenses.
Electricity came to Wrangell.
Private Electric Systems 1902
City Electric light systems were not the only ones available at the turn of the century. Before the town of Wrangell as mentioned in the last newsletter, had a electric plant, I have found one business that put in electricity.
Are you surprised that the first business in town with electric lights was a BAR! In the early winter months of 1902, Bruno Grief decided to light up his establishment, the Brewery Sample rooms. The local newspaper advertisement said of his business “First Class House in all Particulars.”
He chose an acetylene gas plant to produce a bright arc light. The tank and pipes arrived in the early spring and someone installed them in the building. Grief was innovated using acetylene at the time in southeast Alaska. Two lighthouses, five finger and sentinel Island, both built in 1902, used acetylene arc lights. It wasn't’t until the 1930s that most of Southeast’s lighthouses quit using acetylene lights to warn ships and boats of navigational hazards. Today we hear about acetylene, an artificial gas, because of its use in welding and for cutting metal. Miner’s carbide lamps run on much the same principle.
Troubles! Grief could not get the carbon necessary to form the gas. The raw products of acetylene are limestone (calcium carbonate) and coal. Which is made into coke and hat was what Grief needed.
His light plant, which he didn’t need during the long summer hours, sat idle. Finally in December of 1902, the steamship AL-KI brought Grief the necessary carbon. He told the newspaper that by the first of 1903, he would have the “finest lighted place of business in Wrangell, if not all of Alaska” Unfortunately the surviving 1903 newspapers, don’t celebrate the occasion when his bar burst with light!
Canoe Passage, History of Land use
Canoe Passage, nine and a half miles long between Brownstone and Etolin Islands, is on the northern side of Ernest Sound south of Wrangell, a place most of us haven’t been to nor know much about. This is partially due to its narrowness that doesn’t allow many boaters to feel comfortable navigating it. Lt. Comdr. A. W. Snow, a Navy officer commanding a survey boat in 1886, Chose this name because “it is the best suited for small boats and canoes.”
Such protected waters wee suited to the Native people and Dick stokes grandfather told him that there had been, long ago, a permanent Native village somewhere along the shores. Harry Sundborg remembers looking for remains of a cannery he heard was located in canoe Pass. “ We found a few stubs of pilling, but nothing else” The reason there was so little evidence of a cannery was because it lasted only a year and several years later much, if all, was removed.
The Portland Oregon- based Canoe Pass Canning Company sent crews in spring 1912 to build the complex. Unfortunately not much information has survived about this operation. We do know this was a year when many new canneries were constructed in Southeast to cash in on a good market and good runs of salmon. I learned that in July 1912, the 75 foot HAZEL ROFF was built in Ketchikan as a fish tender by Matthew Burkovich. That year she came to Canoe Pas as a tender undoubtedly to haul salmon from Prince of Wales sites and from Anan Creek. On august 30th, she anchored in a bight behind Grindall Island, at the mouth of Kassan Bay. My husband Frank was anchored there when a storm came up. It is NOT a secure anchorage! The HAZEL ROFF sank but was re floated. After that time, I have lost track of her.
That year of 1912, the cannery packed 37,000 cases, not a bad size, given by officials to the newspapers, nor to the fishery trade magazines. The next year packers outfitted for a lighter pack than the previous year because of expectations of big runs in the Puget Sound. Perhaps this influenced the owners not to return. So far I have not found what Canoe Pass Canning Company
did during 1913 and 1914. There was a big pink run in Southeast the latter year so that you would expect the company to profit from and make some return on investment. Then in 1915, the company’s officials decided to move its plant to Cordova at Shepard Point. The company sent men to dismantle the Southeast Alaska cannery and prepare machinery for transport north.
In December, the steamer LATOUCHE called at the cannery and loaded some of the machinery. There was no one at the cannery. I wish i knew more about what happened to the watchman and his gas boat, the JACK: both vanished. After the company took what it wanted, the rest was abandoned. Usually when that happened, people scrounged everything that was usable. Probably Wrangellites found this a great source of free lumber! As for the Canoe Pass Canning Company, it consolidated in 1924 with Alaska Sea Food Co under the name Shepard Point Packing Company.
GOOD - BYE HAMLIN and ELWOOD
Ever wonder what happened to all those river boats that we see pictures of and hear about going up the Stikine during the Klondike? Two of the boats sat at the head of today’s Reliance Harbor when out of service. In 1903 both the HAMLIN and the ELWOOD were sold and steamed south in February and March respectively.
When HAMLIN arrived in Wrangell in 1898, she was a new Canadian Pacific freight steamer built in Vancouver, BC for the Stikine River trade. She was 140 feet long, with a 30 foot beam and carried between 150 and 180 tons of cargo. When loaded she drew 26 inches. Here maiden upriver voyage took place on Thursday May 5th, with A. Insley as master. After that trip, she cleared customs in Wrangell every Thursday in May, there Thursdays in June and on the 4th of July. The customs records are not available in Wrangell, so I do not know when she ceased to be used on the river.
In early February 1903, she changed ownership. G.W. Sproat came to Wrangell from Victoria to make arrangements for her leave- taking. Four local men, D.S. Reeder, J.H. Barnes, William Callum, and B.D. Frankforth repaired the HAMLIN so she could make her way south under her own steam. Captain Reeder and his crew coaled her on Sunday and Monday, and she set out on the 17th of February.
The local Newspaper said “the old Stern wheel river boat HAMLIN, that has laid at the head of the bay so long is there no more. The HAMLIN was one of the familiar objects in the east end of town and her absence will be noticed.” The “bay” is today’s Wrangell Harbor. As for the paddle wheeler steamer ELWOOD, of Portland, Oregon, she had been built by the Cassiar Central Railroad Company and arrived in Wrangell from Victoria in early May 1989. She started upriver five days after the HAMLIN on her maiden voyage to Gelnora. She ran once a week that spring and early summer.
She was laid up in the harbor after that first year, resting in a cradle; In January 1903; the Cassiar Central Railroad Company transferred the ownership of the sternwheeler to Captain H.H. McDonald of Seattle. The ELWOOD was in a good state of preservation because H.D. Campbell cared for her the nearly 4 year’s she was in the cradle. McDonald was able to take her to the Pudget Sound under her own power where she was operated in connection with another of McDonald’s boats on the Skagit River.
A GLIMPSE OF FORT WRANGEL in MARCH 1989
[This is from a handwritten letter to Joe Cunningham (with some punctuation added) that Michael Nore sent to include in the newsletter. At that time, people were heading to the Klondike and landing in Fort Wrangel. Here they prepared to go up the Stikine River on the ice or waited until the ice went out.]
Fort Wrangell, March 13, 1898
Dear Joe!
Thank god we are here after a voyage of 55 days. We landed here last night. We had an awful trip; what the storm did not do, the men did to make the trip unpleasant. I have been with all kinds of men but never with such. The old BALTIC stood it well. We sprung a leak. I dug down inside and repaired it. A gale took a block of our fore rigging. We bailed her with buckets out of the cabins.
This place is booming. It is the route of the Stikine River. They are at work on the R. Ry [Stikineen and Teslin Railway, Navigation, and Colonization Company] they are going to build from Telegraph Creek [Glenora] to Dawson City. They can’t get lumber fast enough to put up buildings. There must be between 10 and 12,000 people here. All Canadian boats run here, the only place to land big steamers. A man that has money is a fool to stay in Fairhaven [Bellingham] and fool away his time. You can make money in any business you may go into.
Tell Mike [Not our Michael Nore] I will write him in a few days. They will sell their lumber here. Lumber sells rough $20.00; dressed $35.00 or $40. Hoping that you are well. The same as I am at this present.
From your Friend,
M. D. Weber
[There is more correspondence addressed to Cunningham. By June 1898, his address is in Fort Wrangel. Patricia Neal, a Wrangell historian, found that a man named Cunningham returned from Seattle to Wrangell in mid September 1899 to become the new school teacher. School will open, she writes, on Monday and “it is to hope that all parents will avail themselves of this opportunity of giving their children an education.” Later correspondence in Nore’s collection shows Cunningham in Rossland, British Columbia. Neither Patricia nor I have found anything about Weber.]
UPRIVER WITH W.H. PRICE: 1879
[Walter H. Price was on of the earlier prospectors and miners of Alaska. He came north in 1877 trying his luck on the east Prince of Wales Island. He then went up the Stikine River to the Cassiar.
Returning over the boundary, he canoed to Windham Bay and Sitka. Pierce was among the first to arrive at Gastineau Channel when gold was discovered at what is now Juneau. Eventually he wrote a little book called “13 Years of Travel & Exploration in Alaska.” From it, we learned of his Stikine River adventures in Feb. 1879]
Returning to Fort Wrangel, I prepared to sled up the Stickeen River on the ice, for late in the fall a new gold bearing creek had been discovered in the Cassiar district, and I wanted to try my luck on it. All things being ready I started with one companion up the river. We were taking considerable supplies with us, which, in that country in winter or early spring, are always conveyed on hand –sleds; some times with dogs, but often the miners, not having dogs, who pull themselves.
My partner and I not having dogs, were doing our own pulling. We had too much freight to take it all at one load and were obliged to take two trips.
Thus, supposed we had a thousand pounds, we would take five hundred and haul it on half days journey, and then go back in the afternoon. The next day we would haul u the rear load, and so on until the journey was finished. A good many parties were ahead of us. Thus the road was broken and very good, though the weather was cold. All went smoothly enough, until one stormy morning we had a longer journey than usual to make. The snow was drifting down , which delayed us, as it made the sleds harder to pull, and it was almost dark before we got started back to campo where our beds were. The storm increased, and adding to our discomfort it was bitter cold and blowing in our faces. It became very dark , and in many places the trail was drifted full, as the wind having blown the snow all clean from the glare river ice left us no guide to go by.
In all those northern river that are frozen in the winter, there are air holes or places that do not freeze . I thought of those places, but had not seen any as we came up in the daylight; but we lost the trail and in the darklness got off course. All of a sudden my footing gave way , and i was floundering in the cold river water. My partner, who was behind, warned by the splash i made, managed to stop, but not before he got partly in,. I had fallen headlong. Fortunately the water was shallow, not over three feet deep. I drifted under the ice and climbed out again on the solid ice. I drifted under the ice and climbed out again on the solid ice, In the moment my clothes froze stiff, and to add the horror, we were lost in the darkness and did not know where to go.
My partner had only gotten his feet and legs wet. To attempt to find camp I knew was almost sure death. SO we headed to a bunch of timber on the bank and penetrated it until we found a sheltered place. We tramped a path in the snow around a large cotton wood tree and kept up a kind of Indian war dance around it. My frozen pants broke through at the knees, and I saw at once that we must do something because the nights up north in Feb..,. are long. As I was wet all over, I had no matches that would burn. Fortunately my partner had some, and we went in search of and at length found a dry stub of a tree and after a great deal of trouble and when our matches were almost gone, we finally got it to burn. It made a good fire and burned all night and saved us from freezing. At daylight we were but a short distance from camp. We went there and made a roaring fire, got a good breakfast and slept all day.
Having recovered from our night of misfortune, we proceeded. We were fortunate the balance of the trip and arrived safely at the diggings. Found the weather cold and everything frozen solid. We went to a new creek, staked off claims, made ourselves comfortable, and waited for the weather to moderate.
[ After working the Cassiar claims, the two sold out “ for the claim would still pay enough to satisfy a China man.” The pair returned to Fort Wrangel in the fall of 1879.]
GOOD LUCK AT SEA
There are many superstitions about seas and boats, undoubtedly brought on by fear of the waters over which no one has control. Never whistle on a boat because it calls the wind is on familiar saying.
Many Sea superstitions are Christian based: It is unlucky to leave port of Friday, the day Christ was crucified. Never start a voyage on the first Monday in April, the day Cain slew Abel. Often the reasons for these superstitions have been forgotten. I have heard people say “We can’t leave Friday,” and when I ask “Why?” “I don’t know, my dad always said not to go on Friday.”
Then there are the good luck charms: A stolen piece of wood mortised into the keel will make the ship go faster. A silver coin placed under the masthead ensured a successful voyage. Pouring wine on the deck, a libation to the sea gods will bring good luck on a long voyage.
But my favorite charm comes from a 1907 Alaskan newspaper: A shark’s fin nailed to the lee side of the pilot house is considered a good luck omen of the seas, treasured by the sailor. Any sailor, in the early days would have told you that a shark’s fin was as guarantee of prosperous voyages, just as a rabbits foot was on shore. Ands like a rabbit’s foot, a shark’s fin had to be obtained under peculiar conditions. A rabbit’s foot, with the proper credentials, must be from the left hind leg of a buck (male), two years old, caught at midnight in the dark of the moon with a southeast wind and with a whippoorwill crying.
The truly valuable shark’s fin must have equally restricted characteristics. It must come from a 12 foot shark caught with hook bated with ten pounds of salt pork, with barometric pressure 29.28, in a chop sea with the wind southwest, hauled in over the port quarter and slain by the second mate with a brass belaying pin, the ship sailing full and by a northeasterly quarter.
No wonder lucky shark fins don’t grace any of our boats!
Wrangell's Chamber of Commerce Building History
DIEHL/NEYMAN
NEYMAN SUPPLY
224 FRONT STREET
THE DIEHL/NEYMAN BUILDING IS ONE OF THE FEW FALSE FRONTED BUILDINGS
ON FRONT STREET IN ALMOST IN ALMOST UNALTERED CONDITIONS.
THE BUILDING WAS CONSTRUCTED BY R.C. DIEHL IN 1898.
LITTLE IS KNOWN OF THE USE OF THE BUILDING, ALTHOUGH A MENTION
ON THE STICKEEN RIVER JOURNAL NEWSPAPER FOR 1989 NOTED THAT DIEHLWAS OPENING A GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORE.
HOWEVER, NO ADVERTISMENTS CAN BE FOUND IN LATER EDITIONS
OF THE NEWSPAPERS SUPPORTING THIS VENTURE.
DIEHL WAS FROM MONTROSE, COLORADO AND MOED TO
WRANGELL IN 1898.HE HAD BEEN ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF MONTROSE, AND HAD BEEN A BUSINESSMAN AND AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THAT COMMUNITY. THE LURE OF GOLD BROUGHT DIEHL,HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER, AS WELL AS A BROTHER TO ALASKA.
HE LEFT FORT WRNAGELL FOR THE GOLD FIELDS OF THE NORTH.
HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER RETURNED TO MONTROSE WHILE DIEHL FOLLOWED THE QUEST FOR GOLD.HE IS ALSO REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN A PARTNER IN A MERCHANDISE STORE IN DAWSON CITY. HE IS ALSO A REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN A PARTNER IN A MERCHANDISE STORE IN DAWSON CITY. HE RETURNED TO COLORADO DURING THE EARLY 1900’S. NO FURTHER DOCUMENTATION OF THE BUILDING IS AVAILABLE.
THE BUILDING WAS MOVED BACK FROM THE STREET IN 1928. GEORGE HATTON, NES LEMIEUX AND GEORGE CASE MOVED THE BUILDING NORTHEAST ELEVEN FEET ON THE LOT TO LINE UP WITH OTHER BUILDINGS AND STRAIGHTEN FRONT STREET.
THE PATENAUDE FAMILY OWNED THE BUILDING UNTIL 1947 WHEN IT WAS SOLD TO WILLIAM GUNN, KNOWN LOCALLY AS BROTHER GUNN.
GUNN, AN EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY, TOOK OVER THE SHOE REPAIR SHOP
AND OVER SAW THE MISSIONARY LOCATED DOWN THE STREET.
THE BUILDING HAS HOUSED VARIUOSE RETIAL STORES THROUGHOUT THE YEARS,WITH THE OWNERS OFTEN LIVING UPSTAIRS.
IT WAS USED AS A RESIDENCE AND BUSINESS IN 1914. A SMALL GROCERY STORE OWNED BYGEORGE COWAN OPERATED HERE IN 1927.
THE BUILDING HOUSED A SHOE REPAIR SHOP AND RAILWAY EXPRESS
OFFICE OPERATED BY THE NEYMAN FAMILY IN 1947.
THE BUILDING BECAME NEYMAN SUPPLY AFTER THE FIRE OF 1952.
THE FIRE BURNED MOST OF THE WEST SIDE OF FRONT STREET, INCLUDING NEYMAN’S GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORE.
AFTER THE FIRE, GUNN ASSISTED THE NEYMANS WHO SUFFERED SEVERAL LOSSES. HE ALLOWED THEM TO MOVE WHAT WAS LEFT OF THEIR STOCK INTO HALF OF THE BUILDING. THE NEYMAN FAMILY PURCHASED THE BUILDING IN 1954 AND OPENED AN AUTO PARTS STORE. AFTTER MR. NEYMAN’S DEATH IN 1959, DOROTHY NEYMAN CONTINUED TO OPERATE THE STORE KNOWN AS NEYMAN SUPPLY. SHE CLOSED THE SHOP IN MARCH 1983.
Wrangell's History in Photos
Photos taken by Tony Nazar
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Japanese lumber ships at Wrangell circa 1970
Wrangell, Alaska
Wrangell, Alaska circa 1969
Wrangell, Alaska circa 1969
Alaska Airlines Twin Otter at Wrangell
Alaska Airlines Grumman Goose at Wrangell
Alaska Airlines Grumman Goose at Wrangell
Alaska Airlines Grumman Goose at Wrangell
Ferry Terminal
M/V Malaspina- an Alaskan Marine Highway Ferry.
These vessels provide transportation between the island towns and
cities in Southeast Alaska. Alaskans refer to these vessels as blue canoes.
M/V Malaspina
She was not US built, but received a special exemption from
the Jones Act to ply the inside passage while a new ferry was being built.
Campbell towboats Rambler and Gwylan
at the company floats in Wrangell Harbor
Front Street from vicinity of City Building Supply, note the ANB Hall next door
From Totem Bar & Stella's Bakery looking south
New (c.1970) construction on Front St. The building had retail and office space.
Hospital Under Construction
Primary school building under construction
The Angerman brothers Totem Bar and Lee Stella's bakery.
Star Cab was owned by Bob Burrill
Fred & Leonard Angerman's Totem Bar
Front Street
Two Kadashan totems, Crane on the left and Red Snapper on the right.
These are located on Shakes Island in Wrangell's inner harbor.
Kicksetti Totem in Wrangell
Sea Serpent and Bear Up Mountain on Shakes Island, Wrangell
Shakes House on Shakes Island
Ed Callbreath's Margaret Rose
Margaret Rose headed toward (?) Telegraph Creek.
He may have been arriving, not departing.
Foreground: Stikine River boat Margaret Rose.
Background: CP cruise ship Princess Patricia
CP tour boat Princess Patricia at Wrangell
Princess Pat
Campbell Towing tug Rambler working the log pond at Wrangell Lumber Co
Wrangell Lumber Rambler
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