Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents Inclusive dates: 1949-2003. Bulk dates: 1949-1987. Botanical sketches of Edible and poisonous plants native to Alaska. Drawings in ink, pencil, water color, some with hand written notes. Hand painted or drawn cards (mostly Christmas). Photo subjects: the creator and her paintings, plant specimen. 1 B&W photo, 5 color photos, hand drawn or painted cards (mostly Christmas). Photo subjects: Claudia, Bea and Claudia, paintings, plant specimen. Memorabilia including memorial program and...

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Locations include towns and villages on the Kenai Peninsula, Kodiak, Interior Alaska, Southeast Alaska. Subjects are many and varied and include airplanes, float planes, Alaska Natives, ships, glaciers, fishing, mining and wildlife. Many of the photo postcards are captioned and/or are inscribed on the versos.

Scope and Contents Black and white photographs of Northern Alaska and Nome, circa 1905-1910, during the gold rush. The bulk of the images are of Charles L. Kemp and Mrs. A.S. Kemp in Nome at the Kemp store, hunting on the Bering Sea, reindeer and dog sleds, school and social gatherings, and theater productions. The photographs primarily concern life in Nome, Alaska, in 1910, but have some pictures of other places in Alaska. Photographers include: Otto Daniel Goetze, Winter and Pond, Lomen Bros., Dobbs, E.W....

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The black and white photographs in this collection show democratic presidential nominee Senator John F. Kennedy delivering speeches at various venues in Anchorage and Palmer, Alaska. Other items included are two newspaper articles from the Anchorage Daily Times describing Senator Kennedy’s visit and internet copies of the speeches he gave at the fairgrounds in Palmer, Alaska, and the Edgewater Motel in Anchorage, Alaska.

Scope and Contents The small collection consists solely of photocopy reproductions of notes and drafts from the Dave Powers personal papers and Pre-Presidential Papers: Senate Files, held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. The reproduced sections of these collections relate only to the 1958 trip to Alaska taken by Senator Kennedy. (An audio recording of Senator Kennedy’s speech at the Gross 20th Century Theatre in Juneau is located at Phonotape 3/3.)Folder 1: Photocopy...

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The collection is comprised of four photograph albums (two partial) and one scrapbook, plus a one page handwritten document and one advertisement printed on pulp, mostly related to the Speel River Project and/or the Alaska Pulp and Paper Company. Localities depicted include Long Lake, Long Creek, Crater Lake, Crater Creek, Speel River, Second River, Tease Creek. Album 3 includes images of Treadwell and the building of a flume and pipeline at Nugget Creek. Photos are circa 1912-1923.

Scope and Contents The Kepner/Crane collections include personal letters, business papers, notebooks, legal papers, newspaper clippings and photographs. The papers cover the period from 1896-1929 with the main part of the collection centering on the 1896-1902 period in Alaska's gold rush communities of Circle City, St. Michael and Nome. Three members of the Kepner family of Chicago came to Alaska. Nora Kepner Crane and her husband John Edward Crane and her brothers Harrison Lynn Kepner and Alfred S. "Budd"...

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These slides document the locations where Kerr worked and reflect his experience in Alaska. Slides are arranged geographically with the exception of nos. 238-251, which are in southeast Alaska. There are images of people, structures, transportation by boat, airplane and dogsled, and village scenes across Alaska. Dates on the slides range from 1948 to 1959.

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91 glass lantern slides, primarily commercial, landscape, Southeast Alaska. Also, Soapy Smith, Whitepass & Yukon Railway. Three articles photocopied from the Salvation Army’s newspaper, “The War Cry.” The articles can be found in a folder in the box containing PCA 454.