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|a Consists of a family photograph album containing 160 silver gelatin photographs documenting the lives of Yup’ik and Athabaskan (Kenai Dena’ina) communities in and around Iliamna, Togiak, Quinhagak, Akutan, Wrangell Narrows, and along the Kuskokwim River in Alaska in the early 20th century. The album documents the large extended family of Frederick Johann Roehl (1859-1924), a German American settler, and Mary A. Wassalie (1882-1923), a Yup’ik woman from the Athabaskan village of Iliamna in Alaska. They operated a grocery store in Iliamna Portage (later called Williamsport) at the head of Iliamna Bay on Cook Inlet. The album may have been assembled by Charles Frederick Roehl (1903-1979) and Marie Ann Roehl Millett (born 1902), two of the Roehls’ children. The album includes photographs taken at the Quinhagak School, including a “baby class” of small children with husky puppies, and at the Kanakanak Orphanage, where Aleut, Yup’ik, Athabaskan, and settler children whose parents died during the 1918 influenza pandemic were gathered. A few images show Dr. Linus Hiram French, including one with Dorothy and Robert Glass in the tuberculosis quarantine quarters at Kanakanak Hospital. Other images show Togiak village girls, possibly at the Inuit villages Togiagamute (Togiagamiut) and Togiak Station on Togiak Bay, as well as another village on Ingelichoak River. Children mentioned by name include Wassili Nounachthluh, Andrew Aghuhbuktah, Anecia Aguvuluk, Lulu, Sasa, Mamie, Mumuli, Robert, Peter, Mike, and Sam. Other family members, friends, and neighbors whose names are listed in captions throughout the album include Evan Powghiak and his father, Nicholas Henry, a medicine man; Julia Agnes Millett (1928-2015), daughter of Marie Ann Roehl and Hugh H. Millett; Frederick Roehl III; Old Big Chief and Old Sophie (Togiak); the Kinney family; and a funeral procession for William Richteroff. One photograph also likely shows the older children of Frederick Johann Roehl, including Mary, Charles, Sofia, Fred, and Henry. Other images show Alaska Native women cutting and drying salmon and weaving baskets, whaling operations, reindeer herds, huskies, walrus heads, the M.S. Discoverer, the Harding Glacier, a family potato garden, and a bush plane. While most of the images were taken in Alaska, there are also photographs of Washington state, including a hand-coloured image of a ship at a dock in Vaugh, Washington, and family members at Ruby Beach on the Olympic Peninsula
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