Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Content Description This photograph collection documents the activities of Drs. George Dale and Evelyn Butler as they traveled and worked in Alaska from 1934-1950. The majority of the photos cover the time period from 1939-1942. The collection, which includes several home movies, is stored as PCA 306.In 1934, upon finishing their doctoral studies at the University of Iowa, husband and wife, George Dale and Evelyn Butler came to Alaska to work for the Alaska Native Service. As educational...

Scope and Contents The scrapbook depicts her teaching and contains photos of the Aleut children who were prisoners of war in Japan. Papers include correspondence, map, contracts, memorabilia, and an article from the Alaska Sportsman (May 1948) titled "Prisoners from Alaska." The Aleut children were: Serje Artamonoff, John Golodoff, and Angelina, Martha and Mariana Hodikoff. Photos include: Juneau, Sitka, Seward, Hope, Cooper's Landing, Eklutna, Fairbanks, Circle Hot Springs (aerial), Yukon River, and McKinley...

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Partial contents: Includes list of board of directors and company seal.

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Photograph album, framed photos, and scrapbook documenting the West Coast performance tour of entertainers Shina Byers, Marge Margeson, Maude Margeson, and Young Norman (Snooks) Margeson. Primarily Juneau and Dawson, ca. 1900.

The collection includes newspaper clippings, photos and playbills from performance venues including the Oberon Concert Hall (Seattle), The Savoy, the Juneau Opera House (Juneau), the Louvre Theatre (Juneau), and the Monte Carlo Dance Hall in Dawson.

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1905 Alaska trip, Frank and Brownie Caldwell. Travelogue series, Eli Smith's 8,000 mile sled dog trip. Note: 35 mm transparencies and photo prints.

Scope and Contents Unpublished manuscript of a novel: Diomeda, by Frank Caldwell and John W. Sluss, begins with the purchase of Alaska. Secretary of State William H. Seward, under direction from President Johnson, requests a Colonel Warren to travel to Alaska to carry out an economic survey on the new territory and to decide on locations for new army posts. The Colonel is to be accompanied by, among others, his wife and his wife’s sister. They are living in Louisiana, and so the prospect of leaving the...

Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of: the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, King Island, Siberia, Eskimos, and scenic views. Also included is the following biographical information:• Bibliography of: Call-Booth Family Documents, Books, Papers, and Photos • Memorabilia of our Famous Ancestor Dr. Samuel Johnson Call (Sam); Volume 1 and Volume 2 • Information about and color photocopies of the two gold medals Dr. Call received for heroic service as a member of the Overland...

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Photographs documenting L.P. Callahan’s activities while employed by Libby McNeil and Libby Canneries, ca. 1941 – 1959. Canneries include Ekuk Cannery, George Inlet Cannery, Kenai Cannery, Koggiung Cannery, Moser Bay Cannery, Libbyville Cannery, Taku Cannery, Yakutat Cannery.

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History of the Alaska Road Commission and related organizations: Alaska Railroad Commission, Bureau of Public Roads, and Department of Transportation, as well as documentation of selected road building projects in Alaska, circa 1952-1970s.

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The work is an autobiography which details Campbell’s fur trade work with the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Garry, Fort Simpson (MacKenzie River District), Tlingit and Chilkat Indians, Stikine River and Fort Yukon. Includes introduction on origin of journals by John W. Todd, Jr.