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Photo shows Walter W. Johnson, a mining engineer and designer of gold and tin dredges, who traveled around the Seward Peninsula on the family "pupmobile" and on horseback. Johnson wrote on the back of his copy of the photo, "When it was time to coast, the dogs would jump aboard without command." (Source: Granddaughter Lynn Johnson, 2013)

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item.

Photo by Wheeler.

Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress).

Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

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01/01/1912
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Location

Kasaan (Alaska) ,  55.53889, -132.40083
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.

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