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Fordson Tractor & Vehicle "Tractor" Digging a Ditch at Glen Parker's Homestead.
- Date: 1947
- Description: One of Glen Parker's many wildly innovative inventions. This one required the chassis of a vehicle (being pulled) equipped to power and run a propelled water wheel & assistance of wife, Nell. It more than likely wrote the end of the story of a perfectly good vehicle. Click for more...
- Source: Glen & Nell Parker
- Collection: Marguerite (Parker) Neyens
- Reference#: 20081
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Fordson Tractor & Vehicle "Tractor" Digging a Ditch at Glen Parker's Homestead.
- Date: 1947
- Description: One of Glen Parker's many wildly innovative inventions. This one required the chassis of a vehicle (being pulled) equipped to power and run a propelled water wheel & assistance of wife, Nell. It more than likely wrote the end of the story of a perfectly good vehicle. Click for more...
- Source: Glen & Nell Parker
- Collection: Marguerite (Parker) Neyens
- Reference#: 20081
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Fred Matson's Boat Comes Literally Out of the Woodwork!
- Date: 1932 (Estimate)
- Description: Harry Hall's generous offer for Fred to actually build his boat in Harry's Gustavus house worked well...until the boat hull was completed! But forced remodeling of an outside wall wasn't a bad thing. Click for more.
- Source: Fred & Ruth Matson
- Collection: GHAA
- Reference#: 20080
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Fred Matson's Boat Comes Literally Out of the Woodwork!
- Date: 1932 (Estimate)
- Description: Harry Hall's generous offer for Fred to actually build his boat in Harry's Gustavus house worked well...until the boat hull was completed! But forced remodeling of an outside wall wasn't a bad thing. Click for more.
- Source: Fred & Ruth Matson
- Collection: GHAA
- Reference#: 20080
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The L&G (Les & Glen) and "Edith A" Bound for Johns Hopkins Inlet.
- Date: 06/1938
- Description: Loaded with lumber, construction & mining supplies (including 2-stamp mill) traveling in tandem to "set up shop" to work Abraham & Les' 1937 claims. Glen & Nell Parker on the L&G and prospectors Abraham & Les Parker on the Edith A. Click for more on the Leroy Gold Mine claim.
- Source: Leslie & Bonnie Parker
- Collection: Lee & Linda Parker
- Reference#: 20079
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The L&G (Les & Glen) and "Edith A" Bound for Johns Hopkins Inlet.
- Date: 06/1938
- Description: Loaded with lumber, construction & mining supplies (including 2-stamp mill) traveling in tandem to "set up shop" to work Abraham & Les' 1937 claims. Glen & Nell Parker on the L&G and prospectors Abraham & Les Parker on the Edith A. Click for more on the Leroy Gold Mine claim.
- Source: Leslie & Bonnie Parker
- Collection: Lee & Linda Parker
- Reference#: 20079
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Wagon Load of Ore from Leroy Mine. A.L. Parker Homestead, Good River.
- Date: 1941
- Description: The "Edith A" off-loading gunny sacks of ore from Leroy Gold Mine in Glacier Bay, Alaska. The Glenellen and L&G moored downstream. Photo taken from the generator tower. A short lived "experiment" of the Parkers to transport & crush the ore locally in Gustavus.
- Source: Leslie & Bonnie Parker
- Collection: Lee & Linda Parker
- Reference#: 20077
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Wagon Load of Ore from Leroy Mine. A.L. Parker Homestead, Good River.
- Date: 1941
- Description: The "Edith A" off-loading gunny sacks of ore from Leroy Gold Mine in Glacier Bay, Alaska. The Glenellen and L&G moored downstream. Photo taken from the generator tower. A short lived "experiment" of the Parkers to transport & crush the ore locally in Gustavus.
- Source: Leslie & Bonnie Parker
- Collection: Lee & Linda Parker
- Reference#: 20077
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The Leroy Gold Mine "Discovery Point", Johns Hopkins Inlet, Glacier Bay.
- Date: 1942
- Description: The discovery point located by Leslie "Les" Parker on July 2, 1938 above tunnel. Compressor building below and to left (miner in front). Ore car on tracks. Wooden ladder for foot access up steep hill. Leroy Mining Company commercially mining claim per contract with "Les" Parker.
- Source: Leslie & Bonnie Parker
- Collection: Lee & Linda Parker
- Reference#: 20076
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The Leroy Gold Mine "Discovery Point", Johns Hopkins Inlet, Glacier Bay.
- Date: 1942
- Description: The discovery point located by Leslie "Les" Parker on July 2, 1938 above tunnel. Compressor building below and to left (miner in front). Ore car on tracks. Wooden ladder for foot access up steep hill. Leroy Mining Company commercially mining claim per contract with "Les" Parker.
- Source: Leslie & Bonnie Parker
- Collection: Lee & Linda Parker
- Reference#: 20076
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Brothers Bert, Charles & "Les" Parker's Short-Lived Fishing Venture.
- Date: 1930 - 1939
- Description: For a short period of time, the "Edith A" was "converted" into a gillnetter fishing vessel for an early attempt at commercial fishing in and around the waters of Gustavus & Glacier Bay, Alaska. Bert & Charlie Parker pictured on "Edith A". Photo taken by "Les" Parker from skiff.
- Source: Leslie & Bonnie Parker
- Collection: Lee & Linda Parker
- Reference#: 20075
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Brothers Bert, Charles & "Les" Parker's Short-Lived Fishing Venture.
- Date: 1930 - 1939
- Description: For a short period of time, the "Edith A" was "converted" into a gillnetter fishing vessel for an early attempt at commercial fishing in and around the waters of Gustavus & Glacier Bay, Alaska. Bert & Charlie Parker pictured on "Edith A". Photo taken by "Les" Parker from skiff.
- Source: Leslie & Bonnie Parker
- Collection: Lee & Linda Parker
- Reference#: 20075
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Leslie Parker King Salmon Fishing Off Pleasant Island, Alaska.
- Date: 1945
- Description: "Les" Parker aboard "the Doris", purchased from the Leroy Co. Miners to fish between hauls of ore concentrate from his Leroy Gold Mine in Glacier Bay to Juneau, Alaska (where they were sent to Tacoma smelter in Washington). This "moonlighting" paid the bank loan for the boat.
- Source: Leslie & Bonnie Parker
- Collection: Lee & Linda Parker
- Reference#: 20074
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Leslie Parker King Salmon Fishing Off Pleasant Island, Alaska.
- Date: 1945
- Description: "Les" Parker aboard "the Doris", purchased from the Leroy Co. Miners to fish between hauls of ore concentrate from his Leroy Gold Mine in Glacier Bay to Juneau, Alaska (where they were sent to Tacoma smelter in Washington). This "moonlighting" paid the bank loan for the boat.
- Source: Leslie & Bonnie Parker
- Collection: Lee & Linda Parker
- Reference#: 20074
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First Permanent Strawberry Point Home "The Honeymoon Ranch".
- Date: 1914
- Description: This Strawberry Point, Alaska log structure was built in the summer and late fall of 1914 with the determined & fervent goal (3 different honeymooning couples) of habitation before the long & harsh winter set in. Did they meet their goal? Click title for more on this important historic story.
- Source: Unknown
- Collection: GHAA
- Reference#: 20073
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First Permanent Strawberry Point Home "The Honeymoon Ranch".
- Date: 1914
- Description: This Strawberry Point, Alaska log structure was built in the summer and late fall of 1914 with the determined & fervent goal (3 different honeymooning couples) of habitation before the long & harsh winter set in. Did they meet their goal? Click title for more on this important historic story.
- Source: Unknown
- Collection: GHAA
- Reference#: 20073
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