Annotated guide to Alaska State Library’s collection of historic photos of the Echo Cove by turn-of-the-century miners Percy Pond and John Davies. Originally assembled as promotional material for prospective investors, these photographs and their captions give an unusually intimate portrait of daily life at a mom-&-pop scale mine. Even the much better known images in Winter and Pond’s archives were rarely labeled in such detail..
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Sample spread from my compilation of Percy’s annotated Echo Cove photographs.