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Kathleen Lopp Smith Family Alaska Postcard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCA 525-16

Scope and Contents

The Kathleen Lopp Smith Family collection contains 53 black and white and color commercial postcards of Southeast Alaska, South central Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and the Yukon Territory. Four of the postcards look like private photos printed on postcard stock.

Dates

  • ca. 1930

EAD

PCA0525-16

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is unrestricted.

Conditions Governing Use

Request for permission to publish or reproduce material from the collection should be discussed with the Librarian. Photocopying does not constitute permission to publish.

Biographical

Kathleen Lopp Smith was born October 14, 1933, in Seattle, to Dwight and Alice Lopp. Kathleen attended local schools. After earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington, she taught in several Washington public schools. Kathleen married Verbeck Smith and they had two children, Neil and Kevin. Mrs. Smith passed away September 29, 2003.

Kathleen’s grandmother and grandfather, Ellen Louise Kittredge Lopp and William Thomas Lopp, were teachers in Alaska. Kathleen edited and annotated their letters and diaries and other family members collections for the book Ice Window: Letters From a Bering Strait Village, 1892-1902. Ice Window relates the experiences of Kathleen’s grandparents on Cape Prince of Wales.

The postcards in this collection may have been collected on a tour of Alaska, ca. 1930.

Extent

53 Photographic Prints : 1 folder- 53 postcards

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The collection was donated by Verbeck Smith, Kathleen Lopp Smith’s husband, in August 2004 to the Alaska State Library Historical Collections.

Processing Information

This collection has been described at the item level. All items have been placed in Mylar and into a pH-neutral folder.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Finding aid for the Kathleen Lopp Smith Family Alaska Postcard Collection
Status
In Progress
Author
Processed by: Alea Oien, 6/2009 ; ArchivesSpace finding aid by: Sandy Johnston 2019 May ; Inventory added by: Sandy Johnston
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

External Documents

Repository Details

Repository Details

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

https://library.alaska.gov/hist/
Contact:
PO Box 110571
Juneau AK 99811-0571 US
907-465-2920
907-465-2925
907-465-2151 (Fax)