Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Douglas and Treadwell, Alaska views, 1908.

Scope and Contents A Summer in Alaska in 1923. This diary is Samuel Diack’s account of a two-month trip to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai, Alaska, in July - September, 1923. Traveling by steamer and freighter through the Inside Passage to Katmai, the expedition spent ten days exploring the valley. Diack and his friend Tom then returned to Seward and took the train to Anchorage and then on into the Interior to Mt McKinley and Fairbanks. They returned to the coast via McCarthy and at Cordova caught...

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Includes diaries of James. T. White, a list of native artifacts collected by White for the Burke Museum, Univ. of Wash., and notes from the log books of the U.S.S. Bear and U.S.S. Rush for the years White served on these vessels.

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Diaries and other materials of Scipio G. Ratto, 1869-1951, related to travel and work in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. The Diaries often have entries for several years on the same page. Not all entries are dated or follow chronological order.

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Includes two personal diaries and a volume of copy letters from the Northern Commercial Co. in Eagle.

Content Description This is the diary of Abraham, an Eskimo boy. His family had a camp on the ice off Point Hope area. He describes his daily life from May 8, 1912 to June 10, 1912. The last few pages of the diary contain first names and statistics, possibly height and weight. The diary may have been found by Fred Sickler who “had 300 sq. miles as a U.S. Marshall to take care of among the Eskimos, also record of the caribou and raindeer [reindeer].” Alaska Reindeer Service chart folded inside the front of the...

Scope and Contents The notebook is a diary of a young Inupiat school girl named Alva Nashoalook, who relates events in her daily life in Icy Cape. The dates given are June [27], 1912 through April 1, 1913 Subjects include walrus and seal hunting, trapping, reindeer, and other subsistence activities. There is also mention of family life, living conditions, weather and climactic conditions, children’s play and home craft such as knitting. Technical Sergeant Earl B. Emrey, Jr. found the diary in an...

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Includes original and typescript of diary, record of temperatures, and 9 photographs.

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Title cover: “General diary, Noatak, Alaska, beginning Oct. 7, 1912, Monday, ending _____, 191_, FB Snowden, Teacher.” The diary, begun October 4, 1912, gives a sporadic account of daily life as a teacher in Noatak. He describes the weather, mentions village activities, names of the sick and dying, and his feelings about everyday events. His wife Monnetta writes the last few entries.

Diary is yellowed, fragile, and generally in poor condition; some pages are missing.