Alaska townsites and abandoned military reservations and selected records of the Division of Alaska Fisheries, 1872-1931

Collection

Identifier: MS 51-2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Letters, reports, petitions, photographs, logs, inventories, diagrams, supply lists, lawsuits, and assessment records.

Contents: 1. Copper River and Yukon River canneries and Native concerns, 1916-1921 -- 2. Report on Fisheries of the Central District, 1916 / E.M. Ball -- 3. Nushagak Bay fisheries, 1913 -- 4. Mexicans employed in Alaska canneries, 1916-1931.

Contents: 5. Contract labor, herring fisheries in southeast Alaska, fox farming on St. George Island, 6. Fur seal industry of the Commander Islands, 1897-1922 / Leonhard Stejneger -- 7-8. Transcript of notes from log of St. Paul Island, 1872-1909 / compiled by Walter L. Hahn -- 9. Unalaklik Swedish-Evangelical Mission and Hoonah townsites -- 10. Douglas, index to occupants, assessments, deed and lot locations, 1917 --11. Index for abandoned military reservations.

Dates

1872-1931

Conditions Governing Access

Collection 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.

Extent

1 boxes (0.63 linear ft.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Existence and Location of Originals

Original records in: National Archives, Wash., D.C., Record Groups 22,49.

General

Photocopies.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding Aid for Alaska townsites and abandoned military reservations and selected records of the Division of Alaska Fisheries, 1872-1931
Status: Completed
Author: Daniel Cornwall
Date: 2021 July
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin