Archive for November 2023
Listen to Louis A. Thompson: New Kasaan Residents c. 1900s
New Kasaan residents, circa 1900s. Standing from left: Nick Baronovich, Walter Young, Mrs. Joe Young, Lydia Charles, Karry [sic] Young, Louis Peel [sic], Mrs. Bernard, Henry (first name illegible), Peter…
Read MoreListen to Louis A. Thompson: Julia Coburn and Caroline Hendrixson
Original Shareholders Julia Jones Coburn and Caroline Young Hendrixson; clan sisters, second cousins and best pals, taken in Kasaan, circa 1938.The old schoolhouse is in the background and beyond that…
Read MoreListen to Louis A. Thompson: Kasaan Cornet Band
Top row left to right: Joe Jones, Louis Jones, unidentified man, Bill Irvine, unidentified man, Felix Young, unidentified man, Robert Jones, Nick Baronovich, unidentified man, George Holdane, unidentified man. Middle…
Read MoreListen to Louis A. Thompson: New Kasaan 1908
New Kasaan in 1908. Photo courtesy of Kavilco Archives.
Read MoreListen to Louis A. Thompson: Kasaan 1929
Aerial of Kasaan in 1929, showing the entire village and the cannery. The boardwalks, which were removed in 1938, are clearly visible throughout Kasaan. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Forest…
Read MoreListen to Louis A. Thompson: Kasaan c.1914-15
Kasaan circa 1914-15. According to Louis A. Thompson, the white boat in the foreground is the cannery superintendent’s yacht. The superintendent’s house is in the middle background behind the large…
Read MoreListen to Louis A. Thompson: Kasaan Cannery 1914
Anacortes Fisheries, circa 1914, according to Louis A. Thompson. The Pike, a tender for the cannery, belonging to Felix and Walter Young is the first boat on the right. Photo…
Read MoreListen to Louis A. Thompson: Kasaan Cannery 1929
Kasaan cannery, 1929. The Blackstad house is the first small structure on the left, with the store next to it. The Filipino bunkhouse is the first large structure on the…
Read MoreListen to Louis A. Thompson: Sea Elephant 1939
This elephant seal carcass washed up on the beach in 1939. It became an object of curiosity in Kasaan where Louis A. Thompson remembers it as causing quite a stink.…
Read MoreListen to Louis A. Thompson: Sheldon Jackson Students 1929
Students at Sheldon Jackson School in Sitka, Alaska in 1929. Back row left to right: first girl unknown, Mona Frank Jackson, Martha Skillie Charles, Gladys Edenson Morrison. Middle row left:…
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