Diack, Samuel L., 1903-1977

Collection

Identifier: MS 4-32-1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

A Summer in Alaska in 1923. This diary is Samuel Diack’s account of a two-month trip to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai, Alaska, in July - September, 1923. Traveling by steamer and freighter through the Inside Passage to Katmai, the expedition spent ten days exploring the valley. Diack and his friend Tom then returned to Seward and took the train to Anchorage and then on into the Interior to Mt McKinley and Fairbanks. They returned to the coast via McCarthy and at Cordova caught a steamer back to Seattle and San Francisco.

Dates

1923

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is available for viewing; materials may not be photocopied.

Conditions Governing Use

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

Biographical

Samuel L. Diack was twenty and a sophomore at California Institute of Technology when he joined a summer expedition to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes organized by the National Geographic Society. He later became a physician and lived in Portland, Oregon.

Extent

1 Volumes : (97 leaves) ; Typescript from diary and letters (photocopy)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection is a gift from Arch W. Diack, given on Dec. 7, 1991. Acc.# 1991-068.

Processing Information

Type-written copy of manuscript placed in archival folder.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding aid for the Diack, Samuel L., 1903-1977
Author: Processed by: Kay Shelton ; Revised by: Jacki Swearingen, May 2014 ; 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