Grace Fox Carr Letters and Photograph Collection, 1914

Collection

Identifier: MS 4-37-18

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains photocopies of letters written by Mrs. Carr to her brother Ernst and his wife Genevieve Fox and to other family members living in New York. The letters primarily celebrate the birth of their daughter, Wilhelmina, who was born July 1914 in Haines, Alaska. The photocopied photographs are of the Carr family while living in Haines and Porcupine, Alaska, in 1914. Included is a photocopied steamship menu from the S.S. Humboldt.

Dates

1914

Conditions Governing Use

The collection is unrestricted.

Conditions Governing Use

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

Biographical

Mrs. Grace Fox Carr and her husband William lived in Porcupine, Alaska, near Haines, in 1914. At this time William Carr was working as a storekeeper for a gold mine in Porcupine.

Extent

1 Volumes : 1 folder ; 6 photocopies letters ; 10 pages of photocopies photographs ; 1 photocopies steamship menu

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was donated in 1976 by Wilhelmina C. Rudolph, Grace Fox Carr’s daughter, to the Sheldon Jackson Museum. It was later transferred from the Museum to the Alaska State Library Historical Collections. The collection does not have an accession number.

Processing Information

This collection has been described at the folder level. All items have been placed in Mylar and into a pH-neutral folder.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding aid for the Grace Fox Carr Letters and Photograph Collection, 1914
Status: In Progress
Author: Processed by: Alea Oien, Apr. 2009 ; Revised by: Anastasia Tarmann, Apr. 2014 ; Revised by: Jacki Swearingen, June 2014 ; 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