Item #14598 Two Photos of Midnight Summer Scenes in Fairbanks and Chatanika, Alaska, from 1909 and 1910. Alaska, Huey, Hyland Foto, Photography.
Two Photos of Midnight Summer Scenes in Fairbanks and Chatanika, Alaska, from 1909 and 1910.
Two Photos of Midnight Summer Scenes in Fairbanks and Chatanika, Alaska, from 1909 and 1910.
[Alaska] [Photography] Huey and Hyland Foto

Two Photos of Midnight Summer Scenes in Fairbanks and Chatanika, Alaska, from 1909 and 1910.

Fairbanks and Chatanika, Alaska: Huey Foto / Huey and Hyland Foto, 1909-1910. Very Good. Item #14598

Fairbanks, Alaska: Huey Foto / Huey and Hyland Foto, 1909-1910. Two original photographs (16.5x22cm.) from 1909 and 1910 midnight summer scenes in Chatanika and Fairbanks, Alaska. Mounted on black cardstock (22.5x27.5cm.), the earlier photograph is captioned "Chatanika Alaska July 4th One A.M. 1909,” the later photograph captioned "Midnight Ball Game Fairbanks-vs-Chatanika. June 19-1910, Huey and Hyland Foto.” Light edgewear and touch of spotting and scuffing to each with small patch of surface loss to bottom left corner of 1910 photo.

The 1909 photo shows a large crowd of men, women, and at least three babies arrayed across a large pile of stones and logs. The setting appears to be the same backstop as from the 1910 photo, which gives a more complete idea of the event, capturing the bases, baselines, flags, and the crowd atop the same large mound watching on.

Variously called the "Lights-Out Baseball Game," the "Midnight Sun Game," or the "High Noon at Midnight Classic," the game appears to have begun in 1905 or 1906, and has been a Fairbanks tradition ever since, with the game breaking at midnight for the crowd to sing The Alaska Flag Song.

Price: $450.00