A Guide to Skagway

Skagway Photo Album

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This postcard uses one of the more popular views of Skagway. The card, published by Edw. H. Mitchell of San Francisco, was mailed from Skagway in July 1913.

One of Skagway's claims to fame in the early years of Alaska tourism was as the "garden center of Alaska." This card was published by Lowman & Hanford of Seattle.

This card from the late 1930s shows "Soapy Smith's Skull", which was painted in the Fall of 1926 on a natural rock formation shaped like a skull. Its current state can be seen in our article about Skagway's Ship Signature Wall.

"Tourists revel in the glories of Alaska Sunsets, which can be seen nowhere to better advantage than in the heart of the mountain range, at Skagway."

The E. J. Shaw home and garden in Skagway sometime before 1907, when the card was mailed from Skagway. The photo was by P. E. Kern of Skagway and Valdez.

Skagway from the WP&YR docks, showing AB Mountain (as the snow melts away in the spring, a clear 'AB' appears for a few days).

An aerial photo - possibly from the 1930s.

Broadway in the early 1950s.

An aerial photo from the early 1970s. An Alaska State ferry is at the center dock and the White Pass & Yukon Route container ship Clifford J. Rogers is at the dock on the right.

The historic postcards are in the collection of Murray Lundberg, and the digital images are © 1998-2023 by Murray Lundberg.