Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Juneau Ski Club photographs, papers, audiovisual and miscellany donated by several Juneau families. The materials are from the 1920s to the present.

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The collection includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, stock certificates, deeds, leases, and newspaper clippings, dating from the company's incorporation in 1947 through its dissolution in 1955 and includes the ILWU strike, subsequent mill shut-down and ensuing legal proceedings. The collection also includes U.S. Forest Service Tongass National Forest maps, a few photographs and publications.

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The collection includes mining reports, mining and engineering records, articles about mining in Juneau, U.S. Geological Service Bulletins, blue lines of the Treadwell mine (also on microfiche, in the collection) and photographs. A detailed finding aid is available in the collection.

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The 131 color and black and white photographs located in this collection reflect a 1971 ceremony and potlatch to raise a totem pole in Kake, Alaska.

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Letter regarding the history of the transfer of the coal house on Japonsky (sic) Island to the U.S. Customs office.

Scope and Contents The Kashevaroff papers contain a diary kept for 3 months in 1923 during a lecture tour in Alaska, correspondence with Professor E.O. Essig (Berkeley), Peter Kostrometinoff, and Archie Shiels. His writings include various Alaska subjects, e.g., biography of Archimandrite Joasaph, a history of the Russian American Fur Company activities, and a version of the Tlingit war from manuscripts and personal contact with Indian elders. Most of the writings are typewritten as is the correspondence. A...

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Father Kashevaroff was appointed curator of the Alaska State Library and Museum from 1920 until his death and wrote many articles on Alaska's history and ethnology. His scrapbook contains information on his writings, awards, correspondence, newspaper clippings and photographs.

The subject guide to the Kashevaroff scrapbook was prepared by Willette Janes for the Alaska Historical Library in 1978.

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Kashaveroff family photographs in Sitka and California, photographs taken on a canoe trip Jack and Sasha made in 1929 from Tacoma to Juneau. Images of fish traps, net fishing, petroglyphs and totems, Tlingit crests, canoe trip.