Carl Joys Lomen (July 13, 1880 – August 16, 1965) was an American entrepreneur and photographer. He was known as ''The Reindeer King'' of

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

, because of his role in "organizing, promoting, marketing, and lobbying for the

reindeer Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subspe ...

industry" in the first decades of the 20th century, as president of the Lomen Company.In fact, a conglomerate of companies that included the ''Northwestern Livestock Corporation'' and its subsidiaries ''Alaska Livestock and Packing Company'', ''Nunivak Development Corporation'', Lomen Commercial Company and Arctic Transportation Company. In 1954, he published his autobiography, ''Fifty Years in Alaska'' (New York: David McKay). He died on August 16, 1965.

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Lomen Brothers Alaska Photographs

Guide to the Walter B. Beals Album on Roald Amundsen 1906–1929
20th-century American businesspeople People from Nome, Alaska 1880 births 1965 deaths 20th-century American photographers {{US-photographer-stub