The Tlingit in Sitka: The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill Tots_Gift_Guide one informative tidbit at a

one informative tidbit at a time

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and a husband who would be better off with her gone

depression and darkness

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The Tlingit in Sitka: The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill Tots_Gift_Guide one informative tidbit at aA rare window into the changing lives of Alaska Natives between the late 1800s and 1920s Lured north by the Klondike gold rush, Elbridge W. Merrill settled in Sitka, Alaska, and took up a career as a professional photographer. Merrill developed a good rapport with the towns Indigenous Tlingit community, and his images of the Tlingit provide an invaluable historical and ethnographic record of their daily lives, religious life, and art. Sergei Kan