Charlotte L. (Price) Mahaffy Papers, ca. 1970’s
Scope and Contents
The Charlotte L. (Price) Mahaffy Papers are vignettes of life on Douglas Island in the early 1900’s. Mahaffy has also written a book titled I Remember Treadwell about life around the Treadwell Mine. The collection also includes a letter written to Mahaffy from the National Archives and Records Service in Wash., D.C. which answers questions about Treadwell and Douglas City as it was then known.
Dates
- Majority of material found within ca. 1970s
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is unrestricted.
Conditions Governing Use
Request for permission to publish material from the collection must be discussed with the Librarian. Photocopying does not constitute permission to publish.
Biographical
Charlotte Mahaffy was born June 29, 1903 in Juneau and was raised in Treadwell. The Mahaffy family moved to Portland, Oregon a year after the Treadwell cave-in of 1917. Mahaffy graduated from Western Oregon State College and taught school both in Oregon and Anchorage, Alaska. She married Charles W. Price, Sr., a politician and rancher. They had one son. Mahaffy was listed in the 1966-67 edition of Who’s Who for American Women as author and historian.
Extent
14 items : 1 folder
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers, originally given to Willette Janes by Charlotte Mahaffy, were donated by Verda Carey (Acc. # 99-12).
Processing Information
The stories were placed in a folder and added to the manuscript collections.
- Title
- Finding aid for the Charlotte L. (Price) Mahaffy Papers, ca. 1970’s
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Processed by: Gladi Kulp, August 1998 ; ArchivesSpace finding aid by: Sandy Johnston
- Date
- 2019 July
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids Repository
PO Box 110571
Juneau AK 99811-0571 US
907-465-2920
907-465-2925
907-465-2151 (Fax)
asl.historical@alaska.gov