Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Photographs were taken circa 1934 on board the NORTHLAND around Nome area. Photos show activities of the Coast Guardsman and others on board the NORTHLAND as well as on the shore. A few photos are of a whaling boat. First image is a Christmas greeting card from the NORTHLAND.

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An ongoing collection of U.S. Coast Guard activities in Alaska, primarily the 17th Division, which includes slides and photographs of patrol, search and rescue, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, law enforcement, lighthouses, Coast Guard vessels, icebreakers, bases, aircraft, Bering Sea fisheries, individuals. The folder titled Lighthouses (folder 5) contains a range of photos mostly from 1915-ca. 1930s. The bulk dates for the collection are the 1980s.

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These include views of commercial fishing in Alaska from 1897-1918 -- fisheries, canneries, salteries, and hatcheries, fishing vessels, whaling stations, and fish traps. Includes views of Admiralty Island, Akutan, Bristol Bay, Craig, Deweyville, Ideal Cove, Kasaan, Ketchikan, King Cove, Klawock, Kodiak, Loring, Naknek, Petersburg, Port Armstrong, Port Walter, Shakan, Shumagin Islands, Sulzer, Sumdum, Tee Harbor, Tonka, Unalaska, Unga, Wards Cove, Wrangell, Yes Bay.

Scope and Contents This collection contains a leather bound photograph album with photographs covering the construction of the Alaska-Canada Highway in 1943. The photos are from Section “E”, Fort St. John to Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. There is a final engineering report by Robert Coffey for that section of road. There is a map showing the Alaska Highway and river drainages from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Fairbanks, Alaska. There is one biography of Robert Coffey written by his oldest...

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The document in this collection is a typed, photocopied transcription of 14 pages of E.A. Coffin’s diary. Included in the diary pages are entries about the 1919 Influenza epidemic.

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Box 1 & 2: Alaska Marine/Maritime history files, 1867 – Box 3: [Investigation records of the Edward Krause murders, Southeast Alaska. 1915-1919.]

Includes correspondence, muster rolls, orders and regulations, records of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, U.S. Dept. of Justice, FBI files, and Gerald O. Williams manuscripts titled "Alaska killer: the enigma of Edward Krause" and "The U.S. Marine detachment at Sitka, 1879-1912 and the founding of the Pioneers' Home."

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Maps, plans, charts – hand drawn originals, bluelines and photo reproductions from various sources. Some of these items may be found in other collections. Noted if known. Includes copy of official floor plans of Fort Wrangell. The collection is ongoing.

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Includes photocopies of sketches by Aurel Krause, letters from Margot K. McCaffrey, Croton-on-Hudson, NY to Doris Ward, Haines, AK in 1978 concerning the donation of the drawings to the Sheldon Museum and comments on her grandfather Aurel Krause, a list of the drawings, and a photograph of Aurel Krause; drawings include: the Chilkat Indian culture, Alaskan glaciers, birds and fish.

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Combest photographed the Treadwell mine, Juneau and sites in southeast Alaska including Speel River and Snettisham. He also photographed the 1911 Valdez flood, Copper River & Northwestern Railway, and the Wrangell Mountains. There are a few views of Canada including the White Pass & Yukon route. The collection includes some photographs by Alaskan photographers Elbridge Merrill, L.H. Pedersen and others.

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Russian manuscript with 3 different handwritings; looks like an original composition. Handwritten on inside cover, in pencil, in English: "History of the church."