File:Fort William H Seward near Haines, Alaska, circa 1905 (AL+CA 5999).jpg

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English: Fort William H. Seward near Haines, Alaska, circa 1905   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Fort William H. Seward near Haines, Alaska, circa 1905
Description
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Handwritten on verso: Fort William H. Seward, about a mile from Haines at the upper end of the Inside Passage. Later named Chilkoot Barracks. PH Coll 413.Album 2.20a

The name of the fort, Fort William H. Seward, honored the man who had negotiated the purchase of Alaska from the Russians, but the peninsula in Northwest Alaska on which Nome was located had already been named for him, as well as the city of Seward on the Kenai Peninsula. This caused confusion in the Post Office and other agencies for many years until the Post was renamed Chilkoot Barracks in 1922. (After the purchase of the fort in 1947 it was renamed “Port Chilkoot.” It resumed its original name when it was declared a Historic Landmark in 1972.)

  • Subjects (LCSH): Port Chilkoot (Haines, Alaska)
Depicted place
English: United States--Alaska--Fort Seward
Date circa 1905
date QS:P571,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: Silver gelatin; b&w
Dimensions height: 6 in (15.2 cm); width: 4 in (10.1 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,6U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,4U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
5999
Source
English: Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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