Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents The Margaret Felder Holland manuscript is a draft copy of a manuscript for a book titled Yukhta and the Littlest Sourdough, 1977. It is a story of Margaret's life growing up in Bethel, Alaska, and her family history based on memory and family letters and diaries. Margaret’s father left the family farm in Illinois in 1903. From California he went to Bethel in 1908 to run a company trading post in Bethel. Included in the manuscript are descriptions of people, schools, and living conditions...

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Charles E. Holmes Alaska Photograph collection contains 94 black and white photograph prints from the original negatives. They depict a steamship passage to Alaska and mining activity in Red River, Clearwater River, and Susitna Valley area, ca. 1916.

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The collection contains 28 photographs, some of which are attributed to Lomen (Lomen Bros.), and 26 letters. The letters from John Holmes were saved by his mother, Alice Maude Lathrop Holmes, and by his sister, Nellie McCreery. The letters were then passed on to Nellie’s son, William. William McCreery’s wife, Anita Derby McCreery, gathered the letters and pictures into a portfolio to share with family members, sending the originals to the Alaska State Archives.

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Images include members of the Dalton Trail expedition in 1898 or 1899, camps in which they stayed and sights along the way, life in the camps and on the trail, the Chilkoot Trail and the summit. Some images were taken in Seattle and Victoria, B.C.

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Letter describes Brown's visits to Haines and Skagway, talking to potential Baha'i members.

Scope and Contents This collection contains views of Presbyterian Missions in Alaska in the 1920's, Tlingit Indian culture and miscellaneous S.E. Alaska views. The photo of Dr. S. Hall Young (no. 6) was used in a Presbyterian Church periodical, Women and Missions, Nov. 1927, submitted by an Elizabeth M. McKay of Ashtabula, Ohio. The majority of the prints are stamped on verso with “This print made in the Wilkes Dark Rooms, Ashtabula, O[hio].” The collection contains images of Princess Beebee Doho, a Juneau...

Content Description This collection of photographs and manuscript materials document Father Hubbard’s active and productive life as “The Glacier Priest.” The Aleutian Islands, Southeast Alaska, King Island, Kodiak Island, the Brooks Range and northern Alaska are a few of the locations portrayed. Subjects include the Alaska native people and their traditional crafts and activities such as walrus hunting, volcanoes, mountains, plants and animals, and Father Hubbard. Papers and manuscripts (few) are numbered...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, awards, certificates, logbooks, clippings, photos, logs, and vital documents relating to the life and death of Lt. Henry Hubbard. Accompanying these documents and photographs are two media discs; a radio feature on the acquisition of the collection produced at KTOO-FM Juneau, Alaska, and a DVD of footage taken by the Japanese Northern Fleet of the Kiska Island Raid, including an interview with Captain Fred Ramputi who participated in...

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Includes Western Union Telegraph Co. surveys; diary of F.M. Smith, 1865-1867; diary of George R. Adams, 1865-1867.

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Alaska fisheries, canneries, Akutan, Chignik, Unga, Hidden Inlet, Port Vita, Port Wakefield. Most are distant views taken from a ship or plane.