Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents This particular album appears to have been presented to Lt. Ben Wyatt. Midway through the album there is a photograph of a drawing of Wyatt and there is another photograph of Wyatt standing with Alaska Governor Parks. This original photo album details the expedition’s incredible photography, truly capturing the pioneer feel. The album includes citizens on fishing trips with crew members, always an armed guard present in the event of bears, glaciers, vast pristine forests, totem poles, entire...

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24 maps detailing fish traps and cannery locations, 1919-1994. Prepared by Hubbell & Waller Engineering Corp. and Deep Sea Salmon Company. Southeastern and Southwestern, Alaska locations which include: Corea Bend Beach, Cape Kasilof Gold Gulch, Cook Inlet, Salamato Beach, Kenai River Mouth, Granite Point, Bristol Bay, Cape Edward, Margaret Creek, Port Althorp, Chichagof Island, Ninilchik Beach.

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This collection of photographs depict the Eskimo families, and other residents and their traditional activities from Cape Prince of Wales, Hoonah (before the 1944 fire), Little Diomede, Unalakleet, where the Fishers lived and taught during their time in Alaska. Some of the photographs have captions on the verso, identified by Carol Browning and Vernon Everett Fisher. Some of the photographs were taken by Charles Menadelook.

Scope and Contents These 40 photographs were collected by Walter L. Fisher, then Secretary of the Interior, during a 1911 trip to determine the route of the Alaska Railroad. The photographs are commercially prepared by Eric A. Hegg (with one image by P.S. Hunt) and depict locations along the proposed route of the railroad. Views include the Childs Glacier, Cordova, Chitina, Kennecott Copper Mines, and locations along the Copper River. The photographs also feature the route of the Copper River...

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The 205 color slides depict the fishing industry in Alaska; notes suggest that the slides were photographed in March, May, and June 1969.

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Letter written to friends of Fitz and Margaret Fitzhugh reporting on the 1964 earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Interior views of the Treadwell Foundry, Treadwell Mines, Douglas Island, Alaska and a photocopied reproduction of an interior view of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Douglas, photographed by C.L. Andrews. Three of the photos were taken by Mary Fleek in the early 1930s. Also included are photos of the Juneau Douglas ferryboat “Teddy” and a Chinese Grave Marker in a Douglas Island cemetery.

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Original blueprint drawn by C.B.L., traced by A.L. Meggs.

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Three notebooks containing shorthand developed by Folta while working for the territorial governor and as a court reporter.

Scope and Contents Letters, reports, petitions, photographs, logs, inventories, diagrams, supply lists, lawsuits, and assessment records.Contents: 1. Copper River and Yukon River canneries and Native concerns, 1916-1921 -- 2. Report on Fisheries of the Central District, 1916 / E.M. Ball -- 3. Nushagak Bay fisheries, 1913 -- 4. Mexicans employed in Alaska canneries, 1916-1931.Contents: 5. Contract labor, herring fisheries in southeast Alaska, fox farming on St. George Island, 6. Fur seal...