Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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The Davis collection contains 35 black and white photographs of various sizes regarding Rosemary Davis’ teaching career in Alaska. The photographs show Rosemary, high school basketball teams, school band class, Douglas Island Women’s club, native school children, the Bethel Beach Home for native children (Christine Peterson and Mrs. Millie Stevenson, missionaries in charge). Rosemary is in many of the photographs and is holding a saxophone in the band class photo.

Scope and Contents The black and white photographs in this collection are materials in addition to those already described as the main body of PCA 97. Subjects include: hunting, fishing, school groups, Masons, Baranof Hotel Opening, glaciers, inlets and lakes, Juneau and Douglas, a number of unidentified lakes, glaciers, mountains and coastal sites, Hawk Inlet, floating fish traps, cannery buildings, and fishing boats. Photographers included are: Winter and Pond, H. W. Steward, B. B. Dobbs and Trevor...

Content Description In 1983 Mr. Davis donated nearly 2,000 of his negatives to the library. Black and white contact prints were made of over 1,300 of the views and they are listed below by subject, starting with number 97. The Juneau views show changes and growth as well as many activities and celebrations. The collection contains views of other communities in Alaska, Alaska native cultures, railroads, ships and glaciers. In 1990, approximately 1,250 color slides of Juneau, Sitka, Tracy Arm, and Glacier Bay...

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The 15 photographs in this collection were taken in the mill of the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company, ca 1930. The details concerning gold processing and machinery were provided by John Mulligan and others at the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Juneau.

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Includes original newspaper and copies of index to personal names and geographic locations prepared by Dawson Museum and Historical Society.

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Includes alphabetical list of funeral records; each record includes: name, age, place of birth, occupation, cause, place, and date of death, attending physician, location of funeral service, grave, funeral cost.

Content Description PhotographsHistorical Collections currently holds nine file boxes of photographs and negatives from Frederica de Laguna’s travels in Alaska: 1930 (two boxes), 1931 (two boxes), 1932 (one box), 1933 (two boxes), and 1935 (two boxes), and 10 binders containing photos from 1952 through 1954. Two separate inventories included here describe the 1952-1954 photos. In addition, Historical Collections has one box of photoprints of images selected for use in the monograph The...

Scope and Contents Albert De Leo worked on the Copper River Railroad construction crew. He took photographs with an Eastman 3a camera and then made postcards to sell. The De Leo postcards include images of Cordova (Alaska), the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, Kennicott (Alaska), and Eyak Indians. The postcards also contain correspondence written by De Leo to his brother and sister in Minnesota. Includes scenes of the railroad construction camp and the railroad, Native Alaskans, scenics around...

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Robert DeArmond photographed and cataloged advertisements and illustrations from early Alaska newspapers. Topics range from business ads to images and engravings from books, pamphlets and ephemera about Alaska. This collection includes newspaper mastheads, newspaper flags, Tlingit and other Alaskan Native designs, illustrations, cartoons, maps.

Scope and Contents Boxes 1 through 4 of the collection include Bob DeArmond’s “Juno’s Days of Yore”; “News of the Gold Camps”; statehood-related writings, articles, clippings, reports and bills; “The Postal History of Yukon Territory” by R.G. Woodall; obituaries from late 1800’s gathered from Alaskan sources; articles on steamers, fishing vessels, and other marine information from Ketchikan’s Daily Alaska Fishing News; and significant dates in Alaskan aviation, dates of shipwrecks. Boxes 5 through...