Washing Clothes on Board a Sternwheeler, c1941. People; Government; Buildings // Alone and without help

// Alone and without help in the winter of 1897-98 she ran a tent road // house and fed and lodged the wildest and most persistent men // Alaska ever saw and remained as clean morally as the snow that // fell on her tent

The Carnegie Library (now Masonic Temple) is the first large building on the left

Inscription recto: Thos H

Canadian Number 1 was a seven-cubic-foot bucket dredge manufactured by the Marion Steam Shovel Company

There is a boat on the right with advertising for "Hegg Photographic Views

Washing Clothes on Board a Sternwheeler, c1941. People; Government; Buildings // Alone and without helpBlack and white view of a man sitting astride a bucket, washing clothing. The man may be the same featured in 2001. 51. 23 and may be Ivan or Charles Berry.