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CHARLES E. CLAYPOOL (1861-1944). (Ak. Hist. Soc. Col.). Photographs; n.d., ca. 1905-1908, 1940. .2 cu. ft.
Charles E. Claypool was a judge in the Fairbanks area of Alaska from 1901 to 1909. He later moved to Seattle and served as a Superior Court Judge and Justice of the Peace there until his death in 1944. Claypool's family members included his wife, Annie Belle Cowles Claypool, his children, Katherine and Jack, and his relatives, James Tod Cowles (Claypool's his law clerk) and Helen Cowles.
The collection consists of photographs relating to Charles Claypool and his family in Alaska. There are fifty-seven black and white photographs (fifty-one in a family album and six other mounted or loose prints). The album photographs in depict Claypool and Cowles family members; their friends and business associates; a mining operation near Fairbanks; and homes, offices, horses, and dogs. They were taken in Fairbanks, Tanana, and Circle City. The loose and mounted photos depict Rampart City, Circle City, Eagle City, Fairbanks or Tanana during spring breakup, and Judge Claypool in his court chambers in Seattle.
The collection was presented to the Alaska Historical Society in 1991 by Tor Claypool Torland, son of Katherine Claypool Torland. The society deposited it in the archives in 1995.
HMC-1023-AHS
JAS (12/1995)
Photographs list:
Photograph Album; ca. 1905-1908 (51 b&w prints on 45 pages, 2 X 3 to 3.75 X 4.5 inch, mounted on 5.5 X 7 inch album pages).
1. Katherine
Claypool (far left) with four girl friends in winter apparel,
Fairbanks; ca. 1906
(3 X 4 inch).
2. Katherine Claypool (left) with friend and baby in horse-drawn
shay, Tanana street; n.d. (3.5 X 3.5 inch).
3. Log cabin, Fairbanks; Side of house and garden, Fairbanks;
n.d. (2 prints, 2 X 3 inch).
4. Katherine Claypool (left, age 14) and two young friends,
Fairbanks; n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
5. Ladder, side of house, picket fence, and garden, Fairbanks;
n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
6. Man and horse in front of cabin, Fairbanks; n.d. (3
X 4.5 inch).
7. Building containing MacArthur's Drug Store (right),
Fairbanks Banking Co. (left), and the law offices of Claypool,
Kellum, and Cowles (second floor), Fairbanks; n.d. (3.75
X 4.5 inch).
8. Attorney Kellum sitting at desk in office; n.d. (3.75
X 4.5 inch).
9. Jack Claypool (left) and boy playing catch with baseball;
Katherine Claypool mounted on horse "Teddy"; people
in wagon; n.d. (3 prints, approx. 2 X 3 inch).
10. Katherine Claypool (age 14) sitting sideways on horse
"Teddy" in yard, Fairbanks; n.d. (3.25 X 4 inch).
11. Katherine Claypool and dog "Buddy" in front
of cabin, Tanana?; Jack Claypool and dog "Buddy" in
front of cabin, Tanana?; n.d. (2 prints, 2.25 X 3.25).
12. Mine tailings and sluice, Fairbanks area; n.d. (3.75
X 4.5 inch).
13. Fourth of July ride, horse draped in American flag
pulling boys on small cart, Tanana area?; n.d. (3.75 X 4.5
inch).
14. Mrs. Charles E. Claypool inspects "her"
mine, standing atop mine tailings, Fairbanks area; n.d. (3.75
X 4.5 inch).
15. Katherine Claypool at the keyboard (house interior),
Fairbanks; n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
16. Katherine and Jack Claypool at mine, Fairbanks area;
n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
17. Jack Claypool splitting firewood in back of house,
Fairbanks; n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
18. Mrs. Charles E. Claypool at mine, standing behind
sluice section, Fairbanks area; n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
19. The Claypools' horse, "Buddy", with rear
of house in background, Fairbanks; n.d. (3.75 X 4.5
inch).
20. Mrs. Charles E. Claypool and miner at mine, Fairbanks
area; n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
21. Charles E. Claypool's house with woman driving horse
and shay in foreground, Fairbanks; n.d. (3.75 X 4.5
inch).
22. Mr. Charles E. Claypool and miner, standing behind
section of sluice, Fairbanks area; n.d. (3.75 X 4.5
inch).
23. Two men and two women standing in front of picket
fence, left to right: J. Tod Cowles, attorney, unknown man, Mrs.
Charles E. Claypool, and unknown woman, Fairbanks; n.d. (3.75
X 4.5 inch).
24. Katherine Claypool mounted on horse "Buddy"
in front of cabin, Fairbanks; Jack and Katherine Claypool with
dog "Buddy" behind house, Fairbanks; n.d. (2 prints,
2.25 X 3 inch).
25. Charles E. Claypool's house with woman driving shay
and man driving wagon in foreground, Fairbanks; ca. 1907 (3.75
X 4.5 inch).
26. Katherine Claypool sitting in her room beside bed,
Fairbanks; n.d. (3 X 4 inch).
27. Katherine Claypool mounted on horse "Teddy",
Tanana?; n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
28. Katherine Claypool's room, Fairbanks; n.d. (3 X 4
inch).
29. Left to right: Attorney J. Tod Cowles, Jack Claypool,
Katherine Claypool, and dogs "Buddy" and "Hector"
sitting on gravel hill, Fairbanks area; n.d. (3.75 X 4.5).
30. Katherine Claypool riding horse "Teddy"
in yard, Fairbanks; ca. 1906 (3 X 4 inch).
31. Mine tailings and sluice, Fairbanks area; n.d. (3.75
X 4.5 inch).
32. Katherine Claypool in winter apparel, Fairbanks; ca.
1906 (3 X 4 inch).
33. Left to right: Attorney J. Tod Cowles, two unknown
men, and dog "Buddy" standing on front deck of cabin;
n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
34. Jack Claypool aboard horse "Teddy", Fairbanks;
n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
35. Katherine Claypool aboard horse "Buddy";
n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
36. Katherine Claypool (far left) and four girl friends
in winter apparel, Fairbanks; ca. 1906 (3 X 4 inch).
37. Katherine and Jack Claypool and dog "Hector"
at mine, Fairbanks area; n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
38. Mrs. Charles (Annie-Belle) Claypool and son Jack in
sleigh drawn by horse "Teddy", Fairbanks; ca. 1907
(3.75 X 4.5 inch).
39. Mine building, sluice, and tailings, Fairbanks area;
n.d. (3.75 X 4.5 inch).
40. Unknown child wearing hat in fenced yard; dog "Hector"
laying in yard behind house, Fairbanks; n.d. (2 prints, approx.
2.25 X 3 inch).
41. Two shots of unknown child wearing hat on front entrance
of house, Fairbanks; n.d. (2 prints, 2.25 X 3.25 inch).
42. Two shots of Mrs. Charles E. Claypool at cabin door,
Tanana; n.d. (2 prints, 2.25 X 3.25 inch).
43. Claypool family and in-laws in winter apparel in front
of home in Fairbanks, left to right: Judge Charles E. Claypool,
Miss Helen A. Cowles, Katherine C. Claypool, J. Tod Cowles, Jack
Claypool, and Mrs. Charles (Annie-Belle) Claypool (J. Tod and
Helen Cowles were brother and sister of Mrs. Claypool); ca. 1906
(3.5 X 5 inch copy print).
44. Closeup of family in No. 43 in front of house (3.5
X 5 inch copy print).
45. Katherine and Jack Claypool with two dogs and sled
in front of their Uncle Tod Cowles' law office in Circle City
or Tanana; n.d. (3.5 X 5 inch copy print).
Mounted and Loose Photographs; ca. 1905, 1907, early 1940s (6 b&w prints, 4.5 X 6.5 and 3.5 X 10 inch).
46. Rampart
City, Alaska from Yukon River; Meyer Photo, Seattle, No. 293;
ca. 1907 (4.5 X 6.25 inch print on 7 X 9 inch board).
47. Circle City, Alaska from Yukon River; Meyer Photo,
Seattle, No. 287; ca. 1907 (4.5 X 6.5 inch print
on 8 X 10 inch board).
48. Eagle City, Alaska from Yukon River; Meyer Photo,
Seattle, No. 286; ca. 1907 (4.5 X 6.5 inch print
on 8 X 10 inch board).
49. Spring ice breakup on Yukon River, Tanana or Fairbanks
area; ca. 1905 (3.5 X 10 inch). 50. Spring thaw in the
Fairbanks area, two men in rowboat on flooded street; ca. 1905
(3.5 X 10 inch).
51. Judge Charles E. Claypool in his chambers, Seattle;
ca. early 1940s (4.5 X 6.25 inch print on 8 X 10 inch
board).