Alaskan Eskimos to priceless historical photographs 1903 - 1930 years

• The Eskimos of Alaska on the priceless historical photographs 1903 - 1930

Loman family moved from Minnesota to the city of Nome in 1903, at a time when thousands of prospectors rushed to Alaska in search of gold. However, Loman wondered not gold, and the opportunity to benefit from the rapidly developing economies of the region. After a few years of ownership Loman was a men's clothing store, a pharmacy, office supply store, transport company, studio and company Lomen Reindeer Corporation, engaged in the production of reindeer meat and fur.

Eskimo woman, 1903 - 1930.

The head of the family Gatbrand Loman was a lawyer and served as Vice-Consul of Norway. One of his sons, Ralph, served as chief of police. The second son, Henry, ran photographic studio, and the third, Alfred, was a photographer.

Eskimo in waterproof clothing with a boat, which he had fashioned for her son, 1903 - 1930.

In Nome Loman family acquired a local photo studio. In his studio Loman brothers photographed portraits of local people and sold souvenirs. On most of the souvenir photo cards were depicted the indigenous Yupik Eskimo people or visitors miners.

Eskimo, 1903.

In 1934, after three decades of prosperity Loman studio burned down during the great fire in Nome. More than 30,000 negatives and about 50,000 prints have been irretrievably lost. Of all the huge heritage Loman brothers survived only about 3 thousand negatives.

Eskimo dance of the wolf, about 1914.

The surviving negatives Loman brothers - a priceless historical artifacts documenting the life and customs of the Yupik and prospectors who flocked to Alaska to try their luck.

berry pickers, 1903 - 1930.

Around the same time, when a fire broke out in Nome, the company Loman Lomen Reindeer Corporation went bankrupt in connection with the adoption by the Congress resolution on the return of control over all the reindeer in Alaska under the control of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Eskimo woman, engaged in fur trade, 1903 - 1930.

By 1940, the Loman family moved to Seattle, Washington in search of new opportunities.

Eskimo dance around 1914.

Eskimo children, 1903 - 1930.

Eskimo woman, about 1915.

Gold Mine Envik Creek, 1916.

Portrait of an Eskimo, 1903.

Portrait of an Eskimo woman, 1907.

Gold miners 1903 - 1927 years.

The child in furs, 1903 - 1930.

Gold Miner on the coast in Nome, 1903 - 1930.

with Eskimo Diomede Islands, 1904.

Gold, mined in one day, in 1915.

Mother and Child, 1905.

1,250,000 dollars in gold equivalent in the bank Miners and Merchants Bank, 1906.

The child of the coast, 1906.

Tomb Eskimo, 1903 - 1930.