Scrapbook made by Libbie Maltbie following a vacation trip to Alaska in August, 1909. Maltbie and her husband, Arthur L. Maltbie, and two friends, Hiland P. and Mary Lockwood, travelled to Alaska on the steamship City of Seattle, leaving Seattle, Washington, on August 4, 1909, passing among the islands of southeastern Alaska to Skagway, and returning on the Pacific side, stopping at Sitka, and reaching Seattle on August 15. The scrapbook contains mostly postcards, printed illustrations, and photographs taken by Arthur L. Maltbie, showing towns visited, buildings, natural features, and Indian totem poles and other aspects of Indian life. Photographs, some with the travelers pictured, are captioned in holograph by Libbie Maltbie. Also present are a printed map showing steamship routes, published by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company; a few printed items relating to the City of Seattle; and a narrative written by Maltbie, holograph, 15 p., briefly describing the trip.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
City of Seattle (Ship), Lockwood, Hiland P, Lockwood, Mary, Maltbie, Albert L.,--b. 1866, Maltbie, Libbie, and Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Subject (Topic):
Alaska--History--Pictorial works and Postcards--Alaska--History--20th century
Title from text within woodcut illustration; remainder of title from letterpress text beneath illustration., Woodcut illustration of a hot air ballloon with two flag-waving gentlemen seated in the basket. The flag to the left reads "No blanks"; the flag to the right, "All money.", Printed in red and blue ink., and Mounted to: 25 x 18 cm. With a sticker in upper left corner with blue crayon annotation "11-". For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom of plate., On leaf 117 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates., and "Iovry Bookes" written in the blank space, in brown ink in a contemporary hand.
Title from item., Title continues: Likewise variety of country shoes as cheap and good as at any warehouse in town. Lady's who chuse [sic] their own patterns may depend on being neatly fitted. [...]and others may be supply'd for exportation., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 12 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
All sorts of figures and ornaments in plaister of Paris, made & sold by David Crashlay, figure maker, at Sr. Jsaac [sic] Newton's Head in Longacre, London
Description:
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet multilated along bottom edge with loss of lower portion of design and partial loss of printmaker's signature., and On leaf 126 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
