Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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The photograph album includes 49 (because number 2 is missing) black and white photographs and a number of images clipped from magazines. The photographs depict mostly unidentified Southeast Alaskan towns including Wrangell, Sitka, Juneau and Haines. Many of the photographs are water views.

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20 photographs showing Alaska mining claims of George Cox Friend. There is a newspaper article that tells the stories of some of the pre-gold rush Alaska sourdoughs, a letter to George Friend from D.E. Griffith asking for his early Alaska story, and an invitation to the reunion dinner of the Pioneers of Forty Mile, Alaska, 1922.

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The Fries Family photograph collection contains 7 black and white photographs printed on postcard stock. They depict some members of the Fries family, their home in Juneau, Alaska, and Conrad Fries’ boat M/V Show-Me.

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Color, glass mounted slides taken on the longest day of the year at Kotzebue in 1954.

Scope and Contents Each of the nineteen volumes is arranged chronologically by date of death and has its own name index. Each entry or "Record of Funeral" includes all or some of the following: name of deceased, race or nationality, occupation, residence, marital status, religion, name and birthplace of parents, age, date and place of birth, date and place of death, cause of death, individual paying for funeral, place and date of funeral services, certifying physician, and a detailed list of the funeral...

Scope and Contents Bicentennial Oral History Project, 1975-1976. Members of the Alaska Chapter of the Future Homemakers of America conducted 35 interviews in 11 Alaskan communities during 1975-1976. The interviews are concerned with life in Alaska before 1950 and are recollections of dating, transportation, education, clothing, occupations, food, holidays, marriage, church, medicine, recreation and crises.The interviews are usually accompanied by an oral history agreement and historical...

Scope and Contents Kitty Gair Collection, ca. 1880 - 2002, bulk ca. 1930s-1980s. Box 1: Acc no. 2004-003 The collection consists of personal papers. Biographical information, research notes, degrees, certificates, licenses, awards, recognitions, memberships, family and medical papers.Box 2 - 6 Acc no. 2014-018 Professional papers; undated, 1945-1991. 0.3 cubic feet. (Originally Series 1 of UAA collection) This series contains the professional papers of Catherine Gair. Included are materials...

Scope and Contents Boxes 1 and 2: Acc no. 2014-018 Slides; 1946-1972 (Originally Series 3 of UAA collection) This series contains 45 folders of color slides. Folders 1-33 consist of views at various locations in Alaska and British Columbia. The slides are roughly grouped and arranged alphabetically by location. The slides in folders 34-45 are grouped by subject areas. The folders are arranged alphabetically. Examples of the subjects included are: animals, children, glaciers, and ships and boats....

Content Description The papers (Ms 94) contain copies of official reports and memoranda on the colony development and problems. Conflicting orders from various agencies or boards connected with the colony caused difficulties for colonists and administrators. Mrs. Gamble also received personal letters from colony officials that describe their concerns and activities. There are a few letters from colonists and copies of various publications or writings on the colony from newspapers throughout the country. The...

Content Description The collection includes the official photograph album of the Matanuska Colonization Project, 1935 by the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp., and miscellaneous views, giving both an official and personal perspective. Willis T. Geisman, official photographer for the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. (A.R.R.C.), produced four or five unique photograph albums covering a period from April to October, 1935. They were dispersed to the A.R.R.C. office in Palmer, the Governor of Alaska, the Federal...