Elizabeth R. Childs Photograph Collection: Margaret Richardson Cutler, teacher in rural Alaska, 1924-1954.

Collection

Identifier: PCA 37

Staff Only

Alaska's Digital Archives: Elizabeth R. Childs Photograph Collection: Margaret Richardson Cutler, teacher in rural Alaska, 1924-1954 . ASL-PCA-37

Scope and Contents

These photographs, donated by Margaret Richardson’s sister, Elizabeth R. Childs, include views of Chignik, Kodiak, Altinak, Seldovia, Homer, Anvik and Annette Island, students, Margaret’s cabin.

Dates

1924-1954

EAD

PCA0037

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is unrestricted.

Biographical / Historical

Margaret Richardson (Elizabeth Childs’ younger sister) left Oregon for Alaska in 1924 and spent the next 25 years teaching in rural villages, including Old Fort Hamilton, Belkovsky, Chignik, Cordova, Annette Island, Anvik, Fort Richardson and Nome. In addition to teaching, she served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Margaret married R.C. Cutler in 1943, a homesteader in Homer. She died in an automobile accident April 5, 1954. Elizabeth and Margaret's younger sister, Marion, also went to Alaska to teach. Elizabeth wrote her sisters' story in, Teachers in the Alaskan Wilderness, Margaret and Marion Richardson, 1924-1954 (LA2315.A4C45). See also: A letter written by Margaret Richardson to her niece Margaret Childs (LA2315.A4C455 1947).

Extent

58 Photographic Prints (1 folder, 1 box) : 58 photographs, original negatives

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Existence and Location of Copies

Photographs digitized and available for viewing via Alaska's Digital Archives: 01-30, 33-35, 49, 56

Digitized photographs not available via Alaska's Digital Archives: 31-32

Processing Information

This collection has been described at the item level. Original order maintained. Photographs placed in Mylar, and all items placed into pH-neutral folders. Negatives stored in freezer in Vault.

Digital Material

Alaska's Digital Archives: Elizabeth R. Childs Photograph Collection: Margaret Richardson Cutler, teacher in rural Alaska, 1924-1954 . ASL-PCA-37

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding aid for the Elizabeth R. Childs Photograph Collection:
Subtitle: Margaret Richardson Cutler, teacher in rural Alaska, 1924-1954.
Status: In Progress
Author: Processed by: Staff. ArchivesSpace Finding Aid by: Freya Anderson; Inventory added by Jack Kovaleski, July 2020
Date: 2020 July
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: English