Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents Photographer/collector is unknown and the donor could not provide any previous provenance. Many of the photographs are printed on postcard stock and some of the photos have been inscribed on the back. These photos are primarily of young adult friends who lived and worked in Juneau, Treadwell, or Thane, Alaska. Some of the photos show a large group outing to Taku Village near Point Salisbury near Juneau, Alaska. It is probable that the photos belonged to a college age person that came to...

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These papers contain Saroff's notes on his candidacy for Juneau's first Charter Commission, his recollections of the deliberations and decisions of the Commission, of which he was Deputy Chairman, and an article on the Charter Commission written while he was Associate Professor of City Planning at the University of Virginia in the early 1970s.

Content Description This collection represents 5 of the more than a dozen families who ran dairy farms in Juneau from the 1890s until the 1950s: Kendler (Alaska Dairy), Danner (Mendenhall Dairy), Pederson (Pederson Dairy), Smith (Juneau Dairy), Hendrickson (Sunny Point Dairy). The collection includes an additional pioneer family, the Browns of Treadwell/Douglas who immigrated from Scotland. Photo captions were taken directly from the albums or provided by Willette Janes or surviving relatives. A biographical...

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The Juneau Family photo album, ca. 1920, looks like it belonged to a family that lived in Juneau, Alaska. The photographs depict the Juneau area including Douglas, Thane and the Nugget Creek power station. They also depict Juneau area people and activities. The owner of the album was possibly an electrician or caretaker of the Nugget Creek power station and lived there with his family.

Scope and Contents The collection includes yearbooks containing handbooks, photographs, member lists, publications, and newspaper clippings relating to Juneau Garden Club activities for the years 1946 through 2004, missing years 1973-1974 and 1981. The History of the Garden Club, written by Doreen Merrell and filed in the first volume of Fifty Years of Juneau Gardening Club Yearbooks, 1946-1996, summarizes information documented in the collection. The first 12 boxes house the yearbooks, 1966-2004. Boxes 13-16...

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Juneau Jazz and Classics music festival programs, brochures, flyers, and postcards.

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This collection contains two quitclaim deeds documenting the sale of parcels of real estate owned by Joe Juneau to the Sitka Trading Co. in 1887 and to C.W. Young in 1886.

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This collection contains images of several different Juneau area gold mines that were operating in 1915.

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The collection includes correspondence, testimony, proposals, assessments, member lists, maps, photographs, publications, and other documents relating to the movement to preserve the Brotherhood Bridge area for use as a public park, ca. 1969-1978.

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Research on Juneau public school history including teachers' correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles and speeches; includes lists of teachers, superintendents, and school board members.