Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents The William W. and Neeta Tobey Sale papers include correspondence, journals, clippings, publications, memorabilia, and a few photographs. Most photographs are in a separate collection, PCA 384, however a few photographs that were included in the Minnie Madsen Brink correspondence remain with this collection.Although the collection spans the years from 1899-1998, the bulk of the material centers around the 1900-1912 period, much of it spent in Nome, Alaska. It is from this time...

Scope and Contents Photographs are mainly from the time period 1901-1912. Papers and a few photographs are in a separate Collection: MS 165. The photographs in the manuscript collection are part of the Minnie Madsen Brink correspondence.William W. Sale was an avid photographer who photographed some of the images but none are signed. He also knew many of the photographers who worked in Nome: F. H. Nowell, Huey & Laws, Simmer, Goetze, and Lomen; the work of these photographers is also in the...

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This collection includes images of the Alaska Packers Association (APA) cannery and cannery hospital at Uyak on Kodiak Island, in the early 1900’s. The views were collected by Dr. Fletcher Greene Sanborn and include personal photographs. Other views in his collection include Valdez, Cordova, and the Katmai Volcano.

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The contents of this collection include a personal diary recording a ship voyage to Alaska and time spent at Clarks Cannery, plus additional handwritten narratives of the experience. There is also a letter he wrote to his mother on July 14, 1925 while at the cannery, as well as photos of the cannery and surrounding area. Some of the photographs have captions on the back.

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The Barry Van Sandt photo collection consists of photos taken by Barry Van Sandt in the Juneau and Sitka areas or collected by him during 1945-1949. The collection includes photographs, an explanation of each photograph, a short family biography, and an obituary for Dr. Max Van Sandt.

Scope and Contents The items of this collection document the role of Adolph D. Schmidt in the 1928 Capital to Capital Yacht Race. Items include a notebook of correspondence of the Capital to Capital Yacht Race, 1928, Photos (10) and negatives, copies of letters and articles, a scan of a Sydney Laurence painting of the Winifred (a boat), letters from the Mayor of Olympia and the Governor of Washington, and a blueprint of the race’s finish line in Gastineau Channel (the downtown Juneau area). Correspondence...

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The donation is composed of 55 images of Alaskan towns, coastline, and scenes aboard the SS NORTH SEA in the years 1938 and 1939. Paul Schmidt was the photographer and preparer of the glass enclosed slides.

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Photographs, Juneau, Alaska, 1946-1950. Primary subjects are the Richard Harris family, aviation, and dogs belonging to Mary Joyce.

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Includes name index and descriptive inventories for Judge James Wickersham's letter files from 1900-1910 (in MS 107, General Correspondence) and abridged transcriptions of Wickersham's diaries from Jan 1, 1900 to Dec. 31, 1933 (MS 107, Diaries).

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Juneau, Alaska and Southeast Alaska views, ca. 1912-1930.