Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital, Fort Yukon, Alaska, circa 1925

Subject: Hospitals & Sanatoria
Card type: Real photo
Date: c. 1925 (White Border)

Back of Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital, Fort Yukon, Alaska, circa 1925, c. 1925 real photo postcard — Back

About this postcard

The Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital stands in a snow-covered clearing at Fort Yukon, Alaska, a long single-story log building with dormer windows and smoking chimneys. Spruce trees rise behind it, and a snowy track leads across the foreground toward the entrance. The Episcopal mission hospital was named for Hudson Stuck, the archdeacon who traveled the Yukon and died in 1920. Fort Yukon is a Gwich'in community on the Yukon River, just north of the Arctic Circle. A sender writing from Fort Yukon in August described "looking around the top of the world" before returning to McCarthy.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Put street number on Flo's letter for me. Rm LS 5- Ft. Yukon, Alaska, Aug 19" Dear Laura Just looking around the top of the world a bit. Back to McCarthy soon. How are you all? Henry still giving you a promise? or blow yourself for a new one. Love to all Xxxx Uncle Bill

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Postcard record

Condition	Good
Place depicted	Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital, Fort Yukon, AK
Stamp	none AZO stamp box (PLACE STAMP HERE) with triangle AZO corner marks, imperforate
Notes	White border; sepia-toned real photo print with surface scratches and a blue stain at the top edge. No postmark and no stamp present. Divided-back AZO card with square corner marks in the stamp box (c. 1925-1930s). Sepia real-photo card with white border; message dated 'Aug 19' with no year. Light soiling/toning on the back.

Cite this card

Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital, Fort Yukon, Alaska, circa 1925, postcard, c. 1925. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/hudson-stuck-memorial-hospital-fort-yukon-alaska-circa-1925. Accessed November 2, 2026.