PCA 25-13 Joseph F Bernard Photograph Collection, 1901-1923.docVIP

Alaska State Historical Collections Guide to Collection Guide to Collection Bernard, Joseph-Fide?le, 1878-1972 Joseph-Fide?le Bernard Photograph Collection, 1901-1923 PCA 425-13 4 Folders Processed by: Ken Nail, Jr., LAM 200 photographic images Revised by: Alea Oien, 3/2009 Anastasia Tarmann, 2011 ACQUISITION: This Joseph F. Bernard collection of 200 photographs was donated by Robert N. DeArmond in 2001. Accessioned October 1, 2001. Accession number 2001-081. In addition, according to correspondence in the master file, a Joseph F. Bernard Photograph Collection of 135 photographs was sent to the Alaska State Library Historical Collections in May or June of 1970 by Augusta B. Perry of Conway New Hampshire, daughter of Peter T. Bernard, uncle of Joseph F. Bernard. Historical Collections agreed to make copies and then sent the originals to the Nome Museum and Library. There is no other record of the copies. ACCESS: The collection is unrestricted. COPYRIGHT: Request for permission to publish or reproduce material from the collection should be discussed with the Librarian. Photocopying does not constitute permission to publish. PROCESSING: This collection has been described at the item level. Smaller photographs have been placed in mylar and all items placed into pH-neutral folders. Folder four contains enlarged duplicates. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Taken from Joseph F. Bernard Typescript: I was born in Tiginish, Prince Edward Island, on the 23d of December 1878; coming to the United States in 1900 and shipped on a fishing boat out of Portland, Maine. In 1901 I came to Alaska and landed at Nome in June of that year. Engaging in coastwise trade and in company with my uncle, Peter Bernard, we built a schooner “August C” in 1903 and traded along the coast of Alaska and the coast of Siberia. In 1908 I went to Seattle and built a trading schooner the “Teddy Bear” and sailed her up the Alaska Coast and on to Siberia. In 1909 I sailed up the