Views of a Voyage to Alaska, 1912

Collection

Identifier: PCA 425-10

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Images of Alaska towns, some are picture postcards : Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Fort Gibbon, Tanana, Fairbanks, Juneau, Skagway, Sitka, and Wrangell Narrows. Featured are Native Alaskan totem poles (Sitka) and Yost’s Roadhouse at the Summit of Delta River, six views of Navy vessels, the Pulpit Rocks and a Metlakatla church. The images are undated with the exception of two; they are dated 1908 and 1912. The photographer/collector is unknown.

Dates

circa 1908-1912

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is unrestricted.

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

33 Photographic Prints (1 Folder: 33 black and white images, some postcards )

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Acquisition

Donated by Helen Tidmarsh to the Alaska State Library Historical Collections and accessioned on September 22, 1993. Accession number 1993-28.

Processing Information

This collection has been described at the item level. Original order has been maintained. Photographs have been placed in mylar sleeves, numbered and inventoried. All items have been placed into a pH-neutral folder.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding aid for the Views of a Voyage to Alaska, 1912 Collection
Status: In Progress
Author: Processed by: Ken Nail, Jr. ; Revised by: Alea Oien, 3/2009 ; Revised by: Anastasia Tarmann, 2010 ; ArchivesSpace Finding Aid by: Connie Hamann
Date: 2019 April
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: English