Postcards, papers and photographs of Sand Point from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
From Wikipedia’s history of Sand Point.
Sand Point was founded by a San Francisco fishing company in 1898 as a cod fishing station and trading post. Aleuts and Scandinavians were among the early residents. Gold mining was briefly a part of the economy during the early 1900s. Fishing remains an important industry, as Sand Point is home to one of the largest fishing fleets in the Aleutian Chain.
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Woven from the archive, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveFMIB 48357 Portion of the Pelagic Sealing Fleet at Sand Point, Shumagin Islands, June, 18…
In the archiveHunter's collection of brown bear pelts near Sand Point, ca. 1912
In the archiveHalloween 1967 Alaska3 decades in the archive, from the 1890s to the 1960s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Sand Point’s page.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
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From Wikimedia Commons (5), the Library of Congress (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia and Wikidata for famous people. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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