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- 1920 Federal Census of 4th Ward, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN
Norman L. Bassett 37 M IN MA MA Head Ticket Agent - Railroad
Edna G. 32 F IN NH IN Wife
(Living on Kenwood Avenue)
NORMAN AND EDNA BASSETT (d. 1957 and 1973) (Ak. Hist. Soc. Col.) Alaska Trip
Photographs; n.d., 1927, 1930, 1932.
Norman Bassett was a ticket agent at Union Station in Indianapolis, Indiana
from about 1910 to 1950. During this time he and his wife, Edna, travelled
extensively in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The couple visited
Alaska aboard the S.S. Dorothy Alexander in 1932. Norman Bassett died in 1957
and Edna Bassett died in 1973.
The collection consists of Norman and Edna Bassett's personal and touri
photographs taken and collected on their trip to Alaska aboard the S.S.
Dorothy Alexander, and on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad in 1932. Subjects
of the photographs (59 b&w prints) include Mendenhall Glacier, Taku Glacier,
Juneau, Skagway, Haines, Sitka, Ketchikan, the S.S. Dorothy Alexander, and
views from the White Pass and Yukon Railroad.
The collection was presented to the Alaska Historical Society by Frank Haskett
in 1994.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1882 - 1957 (74 years)