Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Includes views of the Kennecott Copper Mine, Copper River Valley and scenics of the Wrangell Mountain region. Prospectors with dog teams and packhorses are also depicted in the collection.

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This collection includes views of Valdez community activities, buildings, transportation companies operating on trail from Valdez to Fairbanks along with scenics of that area. The Anchorage Museum of History and Art and the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library in Fairbanks have files of Hunt's glass plate negatives.

Scope and Contents William E. Hunt collected these photographs while stationed in Alaska. The collection includes images of the Von Detricks, known to the Alaska Natives as “the white fox king.” Subjects also include ships, landscapes, military, mining activities, Unalaska, Selawik, Nome. The collection also includes Hunt's journal describes his tour of duty in the Philippines, California, and Skagway, letters to his parents, news clippings, letterhead from Skagway businesses, programs and other...

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The Earle L. Hunter, Jr. collection contains the 1924 high school diploma of Earle L. Hunter Jr.; a score card for the Million Dollar Golf Course; a photograph of the members of the Juneau Rotary Club taken outside the city library building (Juneau-Douglas City Museum) with names of members on reverse, 1960; Earle Hunter’s 4th grade class picture with names on reverse by W.H. Case.

Scope and Contents The photographs, many with verso notes, show hunters and hunting trophies, including moose and caribou antlers, sheep horns, and bear hides. Verso notes indicate the points scored by several of the trophy antlers and the place they ranked in the record books. Hunters identified in the photographs include Max Harshberger, Kenny Tozer, Ed “Red” Beeman, “Tex” Eubank, Robert Moller, Dave Bell, Rocky Seago, Benny Brousard, Dick Digrajay, L. H. Waltersdorf, and Bob Leighty.The letters...

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Correspondence of James Huntington, related to the publication of his book On the Edge of Nowhere, 1963-1967. Principal correspondents are James Huntington, Toni Strassman, and Lawrence Elliott.

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These 64 color photographs from the early 1970's show Iditarod's abandoned gold rush buildings, deteriorating boats and equipment, views of an old cemetery, and a black and white image of the old Iditarod Pioneer printing press. The photographer is unknown.

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Contains photocopies of municipal legal documents such as articles of incorporation, name change, annexations, petitions, boundary descriptions and boundary certifications, etc.

Scope and Contents This early Alaskan collection includes forty-three original photographs by Reuben Albertstone, Edward DeGroff, the Partridge brothers, and unidentified photographers. The Partridge views, which list Portland, Oregon as the publisher's address, may have been taken by William H. Partridge (see PCA 88) during the summer of 1886, which he spent in Sitka and Glacier Bay. DeGroff (PCA 91), a Sitka merchant, began taking pictures of Sitka in 1886 and continued this profitable hobby until 1890....

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Tells the story of Bishop Innocent from 1827 when as Joann Veniaminov he came as a new missionary to Unalaska through 1842, when he returned to Alaska as a Bishop.