Thank you for your interest in the Pratt’s Historic Photo Collections! The following collection is part of the Dalgleish estate, donated in the late ’90s and formally accessioned into the Pratt’s permanent collection in 2017. This collection is actively being digitized, so more images will be added to this webpage. At the moment, a prioritization for upload will focus on positively identifiable images of Hesketh, then Kachemak Bay, then Alaska, and beyond.
These images are part of the Pratt Historic Photo Archive Collection, and can be used for non-commercial purposes. If you wish to publish or make public any of these images, please contact the Curator for permissions. If used in a non-commercial presentation, please cite the Pratt Museum Photo Archives, Dalgleish Collection, and the Pratt ID Number of the image.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about any of these images, please contact the Curator at the Pratt Museum: collections@prattmuseum.org or fill out the form below the last image row. Reference the Pratt ID Number of the image in question in your comments.
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| Pratt ID Number | Photograph (click to enlarge!) | Description on back of image |
|---|---|---|
| PM2017.002.0020 |  | "View to south east from another prime cabin site. Tutka Bay extends to the right [outward?] - Seow [?] flat to south west of photo." 10/01/1964 |
| PM2017.002.0035 |  | "Fine deep morning behind spit at Peterson Bay - Homer at far shore across Kachemak Bay." |
| PM2017.002.0037 |  | "[?] edge abliterates detail of distance, but dominating volcanoes Illiamna and Redoubt each better than ten thousand feet. Photo viewed from South shore of mooring cove 'Yankee Island' [?] of wood growth will be observed. Some trees better than few, but diameter many better than two!" |
| PM2017.002.0038 |  | "Up Eldred Pass (east) Island to left taken from atop rock at homefront beach. White slopes from East shore of fjord like Sadie Cove - heads in about twelve miles. 'Yankee' February '41." |
| PM2017.002.0040 |  | "View to North east towards present 10x12' cabin (look hard) Annavan anchored in close as of other photos. Rightwood [?] land is f[?] peninsula part of my [?]." October 1, 1964. |
| PM2017.002.0042 |  | "Looking east to Tutka Bay from seow flat of cabin to are [were?] tract"[?]. Hesketh Island, October 1, 1964. |
| PM2017.002.0061 |  | "house from near 'spring level' revealing [?] left to right. Trees, fox pens (to be dismantled) house (entry front) privy chamber - dead center, bottom. 14'x14' log house with loft. Deteriorated framing of remains of wharehouse Eldred Pass Water front. 'Yankee' Feb 1, 1949." |
| PM2017.002.0063 |  | "After first snow fall from house at wind-blown snow. Boat "Annie" and prominant rock at beach water - Eldred Pass snow covered flat top islet - sea gulls nesting fjord of center horizon is Tutka Bay some fifteen-twenty miles inland this small island showing mountain at horizon are of lower Kenai Peninsula. 'Yankee' February 47." |
| PM2017.002.0064 |  | "House front showing 'Soup and Fish' or 'Blested heathen chinee[?]' or 'thou bastard son of a beech' or less complimentary endearments - kayak up side down 17-6" long and house - Christmas tree can be dicerned at 'bay' a fine snow fall...'Yankee' Feb 1949." |
| PM2017.002.0065 |  | "'Yankee' Feb 1949 - Headlands at western part of Island from 'house front' terminous of shore at left horizon is Barbara Point which schoals quits for out causing 'breshers' in any 'chop' - being a prominent point is affir[?] by confliction of eddy current and main tide stream, making a rip, consider the weather profit and observed when paddling to Seldovia, 3 miles farther distant." [writing seems particularly bad on this image.] |
| PM2017.002.0068 |  | "My shadow in clean washed beach of receding tide. My boat 'Annavas' in cradle, the house and building and beyond snow and trees. WAs standing a top large rock prominent on beach front as to be seen on other picture. 'Yankee' Feb. 49" |
| PM2017.002.0069 |  | "Log house - wharehouse and 'Soup.' Have logs cut in four foot lengths stored in shelter of galvanized iron enclosure of wharehouse remaining - fire wood... 'Yankee' Feb 49" |
| PM2017.002.0082 |  | "'Living room' as arranged awhile back. Bay window presents scenic Eldred Pass, Tutka Bay , and mountains. christmas tree cut from rotten remains of fallen spruce. Four eet off ground in a little clearing where sun[can't read] growth and tapes. Had just called to hound 'Soup and Fish' just to have him turn, but instead [?] over to me blurring. South sunlight streaming in windows...present room measures 9'6"x28'8"." February 1, 1949. |
| PM2017.002.0096 |  | Color negative. Kachemak Bay, probably Tutka Bay from Hesketh. Grass Island and Tutka Bay in distance. |
| PM2017.002.0098 |  | Color negative (possibly back and white, can't tell). Landscape view from hill, probably looking from Hesketh Island out onto Tutka bay. |
| PM2017.002.0100 |  | Man in dark clothing and hat stands in yard of cabin and house. Appears to be Dalgleish's property on Hesketh. Fox pens, not yet dismantled, in forground and background. Two small boats below hightide mark. |
| PM2017.002.0101 |  | [Needs re-scanned, dust on scanner bed] |
| PM2017.002.0102 |  | "Me: while at past engineering," [sp, hard to read]. |
| PM2017.002.0103 |  | [Needs re-scanned, dust on scanner bed] |
If you have any questions, comments, corrections, or concerns about any of these images, please contact the Curator at the Pratt Museum by emailing collections@prattmuseum.org or fill out the form below. Please reference the Pratt ID Number of the image in question in your comments.