Racism in Valdez, Alaska Racist "bigheads" leather postcard from Valdez, Alaska. Postmarked October 29, 1907. It has the picture of an African-American eating watermelon on the front and states "Just Mah Size." [shelf locator: Ephemera Notebook: Valdez] $75 plus $4.00 postage & packing & insurance (international orders extra). for info email dick@AlaskaWanted.com |
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The Calder & Tokeen
marble quarry.
We have a very large collection of rare Calder & Tokeen marble
quarry "real photo postcards"(and photographs), Prince of Wales Island,
Southeast Alaska, for sale. These postcards and photographs were owned
by the owners of the quarry. They show all aspects of the marble
quarrying operation, from the mining operation to the boats that took
the marble blocks away from the island. Many of them carry the rare
postmarks from that location, and annotations by the Vermont owners.
One postcard of a crane collapse has an X on the front and says "this
is where Joe was standing when the crane collapsed". We don't know his
fate. Another shows a man and a boy attempting to play golf at the
camp, and they are dressed in golfing duds! I find this marble mine
more interesting than any Alaska gold mine. We would prefer to keep
them together as a collection because of their historical importance.
The price of this collection is $7500.00 for info email
dick@AlaskaWanted.com |