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Egegik in old photos and postcards

Postcards, papers and photographs of Egegik from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.

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From Egegik’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Egegik’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Boom and bustPeaked at 203 in 1900; 39 people lived here in 2020.
★ What stands out · People over time

Egegik, census by census

0100200 18801900192019401960198020002020 Peak: 203

Peaked at 203 in 1900; 39 people lived here in 2020.

14 censuses, 1880–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Egegik’s Wikipedia page.

The story so far

Egegik, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Egegik yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Egegik (Central Yupik: Igyagiiq; Sugpiaq: Igya'iq, Igyagiq) is a city in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city is 39, down from 109 in 2010. It has been home to cannery operations.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 109 to 39 (-64%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Egegik, 1900 to 1951

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1900CensusPopulation peaks at 203
  3. 1917In the archiveAlaska Packers Association cannery at Egegik, Alaska, 1917
  4. 1930Post officeThe Egegik post office opens
  5. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Egegik, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s7 items
Alaska Packers Association cannery at Egegik, Alaska, 19171917Alaska Packers Association cannery at Egegik, Alaska,… Eskimo barabara, or sod hut, Egegik, Alaska, ca. 1917c. 1917Eskimo barabara, or sod hut, Egegik, Alaska, ca. 1917 Eskimo bidarkas (skin covered boats)on the beach at Egegik, Alaska, ca. 1917c. 1917Eskimo bidarkas (skin covered boats)on the beach at E… Eskimo children, Egegik, Alaska, 19171917Eskimo children, Egegik, Alaska, 1917 Eskimo dwellings, Egegik, Alaska, ca. 19171917Eskimo dwellings, Egegik, Alaska, ca. 1917 Eskimo fish traps, Egegik, Alaska, 19171917Eskimo fish traps, Egegik, Alaska, 1917 Hauling in salmon from Eskimo fish trap, Egegik, Alaska, 19171917Hauling in salmon from Eskimo fish trap, Egegik, Alas…
1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Date unknown2 to date
Egegik Village on the Alaska PeninsulaDate?Egegik Village on the Alaska Peninsula Transfiguration of Our Lord Russian Orthodox ChurchDate?Transfiguration of Our Lord Russian Orthodox Church
On the map

Egegik on the map in 1951

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Egegik.

Egegik on the 1951 USGS map 1951Naknek A-5 sheet · 1:63,360

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Egegik.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Alaska Packers Association cannery at Egegik, Alaska, 1917
Retake this viewAlaska Packers Association cannery at Egegik, Alaska, 1917, 1917

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Places that used to be

Places now gone

Egegik’s post office has been open since 1930.

Gone or out of use
Bartletts Airportairport

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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Finish Egegik’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo2 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2 Retake an old viewAlaska Packers Association cannery at E…: stand where they stood+15 Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

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From Wikimedia Commons (8), the Library of Congress (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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