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Missionary to Alaska, [ca. 1950]

 Collection
Identifier: MS 4-11-1

Scope and Contents

Manuscript contains recollections of Condit's work in Alaska, 1896-1954 at Juneau, Tanana Valley, Fairbanks, Barrow, Sitka, and other locations in Alaska.

Dates

  • ca. 1950

Conditions Governing Access

Manuscript is open to research.

Conditions Governing Use

Requests for permission to publish material from the collection must be discussed with the Librarian. Photocopying does not constitute permission to publish.

Biographical / Historical

Presbyterian Church missionary, head of the Presbyterian Ministry for Alaska, and president of a native school in Sitka which later became Sheldon Jackson College.

Extent

1 folders (71 leaves : typescript.)

Language of Materials

English

Existence and Location of Originals

Original diaries, upon which the manuscript is based, in: University of Alaska Fairbanks Archives.

Original manuscript held by Dorothy M. Nicholson.

Existence and Location of Copies

Duplicates in Sheldon Jackson College (Sitka) and the Arctic Native Brotherhood Heritage Collection (University of Alaska Fairbanks Archives).

General

Includes: Birds and other rhymes / by James H. Condit. Sitka, Alaska :Sheldon Jackson School Press, 1937.

Title
Finding Aid for Missionary to Alaska, [ca. 1950]
Status
Completed
Author
Daniel Cornwall
Date
2021 January
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids Repository

Contact:
PO Box 110571
Juneau AK 99811-0571 US
907-465-2920
907-465-2925
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