Visitors’ Register, Alaska Building, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle, June-November 1909

Collection

Identifier: MS 198

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Register information requested from visitor varies with each volume, but could include date of visit, name, business, interested in, home address, and Seattle address. Volume one inside page, handwritten, “Alaskans Only Indexed Alphabetically;” includes the date, name, Alaska address (or sometimes a Yukon Territory address) and city address of the visitor.

Dates

June-November 1909

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.

Historical

Register sign-in for visitors to the Alaska Building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Summer 1909. AYP exposition was held on the campus of the University of Washington, Seattle. The district of Alaska participated in this regional industrial-economic fair.

Extent

3 Volumes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The volumes were transferred from the Alaska Historical Collections backlog. Accession no: #8892, #8893 (11/1/1945, from old book accession register)

Processing Information

Registers are in good condition; they are housed in acid-free boxes.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding aid for the Visitors’ Register, Alaska Building, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle, June-November 1909
Status: In Progress
Author: Processed by: Gladi Kulp June 2002 ; ArchivesSpace finding aid by: Sandy Johnston
Date: 2019 June
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: English