Lutheran Church Mission Papers, Sitka, Alaska, 1840-1845

Collection

Identifier: MS 48-1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection includes photocopies of letters, diary entries, biographical data, publications, photographs, and other material concerning the Lutheran missionaries from Finland and others who were in Sitka in the 1840s, this includes a member of the Enckell family. The material provides an account of Russian America with major files on the missionary Uno Cygnaeus; Johan Bartram and Alexander Frankenhaeuser, naval officers in the Russian service; Russian American governor Arvid Adolf Etholen and his wife, Margreth; and Reinhold Ferdinand Sahlberg, a doctor with the Russian American Company. Photocopy of copy held at Sitka Historical Society.

Dates

1840-1845

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to research.

Conditions Governing Use

Request for permission to publish or reproduce material from the collection should be discussed with the Librarian.

Historical

The original documents are with Jarl Enckell, resident of Helsingfors, Finland; who provided copies of manuscripts and related publications with some translation from Old Swedish by Dr. Joseph O. Rude and others.

File includes photocopies of typescript by Jarl Enckell for a book (or books?) he was writing concerning New Archangel at the time of Etholen’s governorship, and the founding of the Sitka Lutheran Church, with working title Sitka 1840-1845, sent to Isabel Miller, Sitka Historical Society, while in progress. Some copies are translations of text by Dr. Joseph O. Rude.

Partial contents: 1.— Finlandare I Sitka, 1840 1845, utdragen samrnanstallda, 2. Finlandare I Sitka under 1840 talet, 3. Alexander Gavrilov, 1818 - 1848.

Extent

0.4 Linear Feet : 4 volumes (photocopies) ; 8 folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Sitka Historical Society, 1980.

Processing Information

This collection has been described at the folder level. All items have been placed into pH-neutral folders and then into an archival box.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding aid for the Lutheran Church Mission Papers, Sitka, Alaska, 1840-1845
Status: In Progress
Author: Processed by: Staff ; Revised by: Anastasia Tarmann, May 2014 ; Revised by Jacki Swearingen, July 2014 ; ArchivesSpace finding aid by: Sandy Johnston
Date: 2019 May
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: English