Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents MS 101 v. 1, the Emma Louise Weinberg scrapbook, includes photos and postcards of Alaska Steamship Co. crew and passengers, St. Paul, Nome, Siberia, and other locations, Eskimos, Father B.R. Hubbard, and scenics; typescripts titled The Treasure Isles of the Bering Sea and Fur Seal Industry of Pribilof Islands, Alaska; newspaper clippings; Alaska Steamship Co. brochures, passenger announcements, passenger list, the onboard newsletters Mukluk Wireless and SS Victoria Radio News, tourism...

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Includes newspaper clippings of Alaska events, activities of the Kostrometinoff family and correspondence including a "skookum paper" letter written for George Kostrometinoff; also includes information on the Baranof Castle fire and the ships Neva and Thetis.

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The scrapbook includes clippings from Alaska, Washington, and Oregon newspapers and photographs.

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Includes reprints of articles by staff, department publications, material collected by the Department of Health and Social Services, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Scope and Contents This collection contains 42 photographs from a cruise ship trip through S.E. Alaska. There are images of the mansion and totems of Chief We He, tourists on Muir Glacier in Glacier Bay, several of towns and villages and ships passengers, Native life, and artifacts, Taku Glacier, Native Alaskans, fishing, totems, a Sitka cedar forest, Juneau, a Juneau Presbyterian Church, the Treadwell Gold Mine, Sitka Native Alaskans, a view of Sitka from the dock, 50 men on a cedar stump, tourists, Native...

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Letter concerning hunting disputes on Hinchinbrook Island, Prince William Sound.

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This collection includes documents from District of Alaska, U.S. Marshal's Office, Revenue-Cutter Service, extracts from Maj. William Gouverneur Morris' report on the cruise of the steamer, Favorite.

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Selected U.S. Dept. of Justice records on Nome, Alaska justice, collected by William R. Hunt for his book, Distant Justice. Primarily includes correspondence and affidavits relating to Nome scandal involving Judge Arthur Noyes and Alexander McKenzie, 1901-1903.

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Recollections of the families and businesses at Scow Bay; family names include: Hofstad, Arness, Molvers, Grenier, Bjorge, Thomassen, Breack, Johnson, Tate, Humes, Owens, Nicholson, Adsero, Lyons, Benjamin, Reid, Peterson, Hungerford, Whipple, Sarber, Duval, Willard, Steears, Wooten, Bigelow, Lebrun, Heiner, Breck, Doyle, and others.