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Edwin Tappan Adney

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Edwin Tappan Adney

Birth
Athens, Athens County, Ohio, USA
Death
10 Oct 1950 (aged 82)
Woodstock, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada
Burial
Upper Woodstock, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada Add to Map
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Edwin Tappan Adney was an artist, a writer, a photographer and the man credited with saving the art of birchbark canoe construction. He built more than 100 models of different types, which are now housed at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia. He authored a book, The Klondike Stampede about the Klondike Gold Rush.
Edwin Tappan Adney was an artist, a writer, a photographer and the man credited with saving the art of birchbark canoe construction. He built more than 100 models of different types, which are now housed at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia. He authored a book, The Klondike Stampede about the Klondike Gold Rush.


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