Lot 14
Frank Hamilton Nowell (1864-1950)
Lot 14 Details
Frank Hamilton Nowell (1864-1950), American
SIBERIAN ESKIMO AND MAZINKA HOUSE, WHALEN, SIBERIA (NOME, ALASKA)
Collodion print mounted on card; signed “Nowell Photo. Nome, Alaska.” and titled along the bottom in the negative. Matted and unframed.
Sheet 7.75" x 9.8" — 19.7 x 25 cm.
Estimate $300-$500
Note:
Nowell spent a portion of his career in Nome, Alaska documenting the events after the gold rush of 1900. He also chronicled the local native populations with special focus on native life and customs as he did in this photograph of eight Siberian women and children beside a large skin house. This photograph was also published as a postcard by the Portland Post Card Company.