The Tlingit in Sitka: The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill

by Sergei Kan

A rare window into the changing lives of Native Alaskans 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 town's Indigenous Tlingit community, and his images of the Tlingit provide an invaluable historical and ethnographic record of their daily lives, religious life, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295753471
• ISBN13: 9780295753478
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher