Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents This collection of contact sheets and negatives primarily includes vessels and shipwrecks. R. N. DeArmond compiled the collection from photographs copied from the Lloyd A. “Kinky” Bayer Collection and the private collection of Ralph E. MacKay.Other views of the Nome area, Juneau, Ft. Gibbon, Tanana, Ft. Hamlin, Valdez, mining activities, and aviation activities were copied from the Dobbs, Lomen Bros., Simmer, Case & Draper, Winter & Pond, Partridge Bros., and D.D....

Scope and Contents The collection includes Alaskan images, ca 1890-1972, primarily photographs. Some major subjects are Juneau buildings, scenes and events; Southeast Alaska communities; modes of transportation; vessels; mining, and Alaskan individuals and groups. Other subjects include Canadian materials and other nonAlaska topics.The Guide to the Collection includes an Index of Photographs and Negatives arranged alphabetically by subject and item-level inventories of images. All items are listed...

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The photographs in this collection (mostly prints) depict the life of gold miners and prospectors in Nome and on Anvil Creek around 1900. In addition to mining activities, the images include barges, ships and shipwrecks, prospectors, Eskimos, and local businesses. Photographer unknown.

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Includes deck log, p. 296-302 before, while standing by, and after the wreck of the Princess Sophia.

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Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1896, 1897, 1898; black and white photograph: Sheldon Jackson teachers.

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Sitka, Alaska, ca. 1886-1890.

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Prints and negatives document Delano’s work as a professional photographer in Juneau, 1932 – 1936. They include photos of aircraft and boats. Two particular portions of the collection document the raising of the ship the Islander, in 1934, and still images taken during Delano’s employment as a camera operator on the motion picture Call of the Yukon, in 1938.

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This is a lantern slide collection depicting people and village life in Southeast Alaska. Slide boxes are labeled Hydaburg, Metlakatla, and Klawock. Other Southeast communities are represented as well. The collection includes an electric lantern slide projector with the label: “Douglas Light Co. Seattle.”

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Includes photostat of manuscript and translation by Antoinette Shalkop.

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Six documents subsequently published as U.S. Congress, 40th Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives, Ex. Doc. No. 125 (Wickersham Reprints No. 6838), " Message from the President of the United States in relation to the transfer of territory from Russia to the United States," January 27, 1868.