Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents The approximately 7,500 color and black and white postcards in this collection are arranged alphabetically in broad subject categories and fill 121 albums. Subjects include the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Alaskan wildlife, towns and villages, dog teams, gold rush, glaciers, Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Trans-Alaska Pipeline, railroads, ferries, community activities, ships, Alaska Natives, British Columbia and Yukon subjects, lighthouses, logging, northern lights. The collection...

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Mr. Grainger acquired these photographs while working on an Alaskan postcard history. The collection includes 6, paper and/or leather-covered photo albums and 67 loose photographs of Ketchikan and other southeast Alaskan locations. Subjects include street scenes, people, events, planes, ships, fishing, whaling and the Princess Sophia wreck. Photographers include P.C. Coffman, H.E. Hunt, J.E. Worden, Winter & Pond, and others.

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Scenes from Juneau, 1905, 1906, including one elementary school photograph. Group portraits of Juneau Baseball Team, 1906, and football team from the Revenue Cutter Rush. Includes studio portraits from Seattle and Portland studios.

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This collection of photographs by Gray and Hereford depicts the people, the sealing industry, and the Russian Orthodox Church on St. Paul Island in the 1880's.

No other information has been located about these photographers, except that the caption on #13 refers to Hereford as Dr. Hereford (shown in the photograph).

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The Jay Gray collection is a collection of 25 color slides dating from 1948-1959. The photos were taken along the Yukon River, at Yakutat, Barrow and Tanana.

Scope and Contents The collection contains original color slides, dating from J. Malcolm Greany’s 1941 visit to Attu; other photographs include color print copies of the slides, and also black and white prints taken on Attu. In addition, there are field reports, journal entries, and numerous papers relating to Greany’s work for the Fish and Wildlife Service and to his drafts of two articles: “Island Trail to Asia” and “The Last Days of Attu.” Finally, there are photocopies of newspaper articles relating to...

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Historical timelines and bibliography relating to tuberculosis and its treatment in Alaska and throughout the world.

Scope and Contents The photographs in this collection were accumulated during the years Louis Schott lived in Alaska. They include views of Alaska Packers Association canneries where Louis Schott worked and many photographs by J.E. Thwaites.Clyda Schott Greely received a number of photographs from J.E. Thwaites, a family friend. Notes from Thwaites are on some of the photographs sent to her, and he also made suggestions to her regarding her own photography efforts.The collection...

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With the exception of the 10 Point Barrow Expedition photographs, the collection contains photos taken during A.W. Greely’s five inspection trips to Alaska, 1900-1905, during the construction of the Washington Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System (WAMCATS) by the Army Signal Corps.

Content Description The photographs, some of which are faded and or blurred, record Mary Greene's daily life as a missionary in Nome and include many of the women and children (identified) with whom she lived and worked. Included are images of Abraham Lincoln, Nome’s chief reindeer herder, Beth Stewart, the Lavinia Wallace Young Mission, the Catholic and Methodist Episcopal churches in Nome, Flora Eroeruk, Jim Sogragok (Sinuk), Edna Murray (registered nurse), the Tattok family, the Beeson family and...