Alaska
This small group of postcards and photos are an important record of the life of Edith Child (sister to Helen Kegie’s mother) who settled in Alaska with her husband Bernard McMullan. Edith emigrated in 1909 and the couple lived in Seattle (1909), Valdez (1910), Seward from 1911 and were back in Seattle in 1919. The couple later settled at San Pedro in California. These images offer a brief glimpse into the world they experienced in their early years in North America.
Figure 1: Seward, 4th Avenue – a postcard of about 1911
Figure 2: Seward, 4th Avenue – a postcard of about 1911
Figure 3: Valdez – a postcard from 1911 sent to Edith Child/McMullan in Seward
Figure 4: Ketchican – a photo card sent by the McMulland to Stewart Child at Christmas 1911
Figure 5: The last of the S. S. Edith (Bernard McMullan’s ship) on 30th August 1915
Figure 6: The foundering of the S. S. Edith, Alaska Coast (in 1915)