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GORDON P. "PAT" GRANADE (1907-1978). Photograph Album; 1928-1947. .2 cu. ft. List.
Gordon P. "Pat" Granade was born in 1907. He joined the United States Coast Guard in about 1928. Granade served in Alaska on the U. S. Coast Guard cutters Haida, Cyane, Tallapoosa, and Atalanta. From about 1931 to 1939, he served in Alaska on Bering Sea cruises from Seattle to Alaska including the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands, and was based in Unalaska. Gordon P. Granade died in Seattle, Washington, in 1978.
The collection consists of the photograph album of U. S. Coast Guard sailor Gordon P. Granade. The 99-page photograph album contains: a leather color cover for the U. S. Coast Gurad Log Album; a Domain of Neptunus Rex certificate for Gordon P. Granade, Quatermaster Second Class, dated June 1, 1931; log and diary pages for a Bering Sea cruise from Seattle to Alaska from April to July of 1937; 339 original black and white prints and post cards; 89 black and white preservation copy negatives of selected images; and hat ribbons for the U.S. Coast Guard cutters Haida, Cyane, and Atalanta. The log and diary entries for the 1937 Bering Sea cruise begin at Lake Union Dry Dock and cover the voyage with stops at Ketchikan, Chignik, King Cove, Unalaska, St. Paul Island, Atka Island, Dutch Harbor, Bristol Bay, Port Moller, Agattu Island and Attu Island. Subjects of the photographs include: Granade and fellow sailors and officers aboard the Coast Guard cutters Haida, Tallapoosa, and Cyane; harbor, dock, street, cemetery, park and other scenes in Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau, Unalaska, Dutch Harbor and Kodiak; Pribilof and Aleutian Islands scenes at St. Paul, Atka and Attu islands; various Coast Guard cutters, patrol boats, amphibious planes, and other ships, boats and yachts; and friends and relatives. Specific subjects include: the funeral of a small Alaska Native child in Unalaska with Coast Guard sailors as pall bearers; a Russian Orthodox Church wedding ceremony; a Coast Guard diver and support team; rowboat crew races in Ketchikan; Aleutian basket weavers (post cards); a landslide in Juneau in 1936 (post cards); various Barrow scenes (post cards); Mt. Rainier Ordnance Depot; and storm damage to harbors, boats and ships on the Atlantic Coast of the United States.
The collection was acquired by the archives in 2004.
HMC-0720
JAS (11/2004)