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- Identifier
- wwu:28437
- Title
- Soapy Smith Story - Dedman's Photo Shop, Skagway (Alask.)
- Date
- 1868
- Description
- Slide with caption in ink: "Soapy Smith Story" and stamped: "Dedman's Photo Shop - Skagway, Alaska" and "Jul 68..." Ten photos on display relating to the infamous con man Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, known for his connection to organized crime in Colorado, the Northwest and Alaska. The name "Soapy" came from his soap bar swindles where he conned unsuspecting buyers into thinking they might win bug bucks that were supposedly wrapeed around the soap bars. He lived from 1860 until 1898 when he was shot dead in a gun fight in Skagway.
- Digital Collection
- Biery (Galen) Papers and Photographs
- Type of resource
- still image
- Object custodian
- Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
- Related Collection
- Galen Biery papers and photographs
- Local Identifier
- gb3296
- Identifier
- wwu:28427
- Title
- Soapy Smith Story - Dedman's Photo Shop, Skagway (Alask.)
- Date
- 1869
- Description
- Slide with caption on front in ink: "Soapy Smith" and stamped on front: "Dedman's Photo Shop - Skagway, Alaska" and "Feb 69" Bearded man in a cowboy hat on a light colored horse. Caption written on negative: "Soapy Smith - Skagway, Alaska - July 4, 1898[sic]" (should be July 7, 1898 since he was on the way to the gun fight) This is likely the last picture of gangster Soapy Smith taken before he was shot in a gun fight in Skagway on July 8, 1898. See also photo 3296.
- Digital Collection
- Biery (Galen) Papers and Photographs
- Type of resource
- still image
- Object custodian
- Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
- Related Collection
- Galen Biery papers and photographs
- Local Identifier
- gb3297