Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Album 1 contains 24, 5 x 8 in. black and white photographs of Fort Wrangell, totem poles, Muir Glacier, Davidson Glacier, Pattison Glacier, Sitka, Juneau, and Treadwell Mine on Douglas Island. The album was photographed and published by F. Jay Haynes and Bro., St. Paul, Minnesota. A hand-written index is bound into the front of the album.

Scope and Contents Views of Juneau, Sitka, Koggiung and other Bristol Bay area Native Villages. Also included are photographs of the Monsen and McGlashan families. Some of the photographs are captioned by the photographer. Photographers represented in the collection include J.E. Thwaites, The Photo Shop Studio, Rinear Photo, and Wyman’s Photo Service.In October of 2006, John Branson, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve historian made additions and corrections to this finding aid. His notes are...

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Scrapbooks kept by the Alaska (Territorial) Department of Health and Welfare and, after 1959, the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. Many concern Mental Health issues.

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Includes diaries of Mary Jane and Fred Healy during their travels in Alaska.

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Includes original letter and laminated photostat copy; relates to shipping ice cargoes from the Russian American colonies to China.

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Four letters written by Yngve Hedner 1929-1935 during his service with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey on the U.S.S. Surveyor.

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This collection contains glass plate negatives from which the positive glass plates were created. The lantern slides would have been created from the second generation positives which are part of this collection. The images on the plates depict ships and views of Nome and Unalaska.

The collection also includes a small number of photograph prints and one nitrate negative. The prints and negative portray people and places that are mostly unidentified.

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Collection includes images of the gold rush era and scenes of the Chilkoot Trail, Chitina, Copper River, Skagway, and the White Pass & Yukon Route, particularly during the gold rush.

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These 35mm color slides were collected by Mr. Heintzleman from the late 1930's to the mid 1950's. The collection includes images of Heintzleman and friends, Sitka, Juneau, Ketchikan, other Southeast Alaska communities, totem poles, Tlingit Indians, scenics and logging and timber industry activities.

Content Description The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings and other articles, images, and memorabilia of Helen Troy Monsen, her father John Weir Troy, her stepmother Ethel Crocker Troy, Helen’s husbands Robert William Bender and Alf Nikolai Monsen and her sister Dorothy Troy Lingo. John Troy was Governor of the Territory of Alaska from 1933-1939. Correspondence between family members focuses on family matters, touching only briefly on local or current events. These letters and...