Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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26 Keystone lantern slides. Geo. Unit No. 19B - Alaska, including Map slide No. 25.

Scope and Contents 306 black and white photographic print images and 532 color slide images of Kiana and White Mountain, Juneau, Sitka, Point Hope, Kotzebue and other areas of Alaska from 1949-1959, with the bulk from 1950-1955. In addition, personal postcards and newspaper clippings in the collection provide information about scenery, education in Alaska at the time, TB, and families featured in the images. The collection also includes digital copies of photographs and newspaper clippings featured in the...

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These studio-mounted photographs were taken during a cattle-drive from Skagway to Nome in 1898. John Kill and a crew drove supplies and cattle (sheep?) 1000 miles and sold the supplies and meat at John Kill’s Meat Market in Nome. Some of the views are by Skagway photographers Case and Draper and E.A. Hegg.

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Photographs by Rick Kiefer (1-11) and photographs by Larry Stevens (12-20) of the Kimball organ dedication in the Atrium on the 8th floor of the Alaska State Office building. Also included are the dedication program and “A Brief History of the Organ,” by J. Allan MacKinnon.

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Family photograph collection documents the Alaskan activities of the King and the Liebing families. Locations include Craig, Knik, Wasilla, Susitna Valley, King Lake, Independence Mine/Hatcher Pass.

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This collection includes views of Nome, Council City, Ophir Creek and scenes along the Niukluk River (also known as Keukluk or Neukluk River). Subjects include sluicing, dredging, mining claims and several portraits of Inuit women and children.

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July 4, 1908 photographs of Treadwell, Alaska, including the Alaska Treadwell Mine and the Mexican Mine. Includes Fourth of July activities, Treadwell mine interiors, mining machinery, Juneau, Douglas and Fort Seward, Alaska. Photographers represented in the collection include: W.H. Case, Case and Draper, Winter and Pond, Hegg, and Elliott.

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Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co., Treadwell Ditch, mill construction, Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co., Nugget Creek Hydroelectric Power Plant

Scope and Contents The photographs in the albums were taken and postcards collected by Hiram B. Kirkeby when he was employed as a cook during the construction of the Alcan Highway between Dawson Creek and Fort Nelson, B.C. (1942). While many of the items are labeled, some small snapshots are not. Kirkeby used the term Alaskan Highway for what is now known as the Alcan Highway. There are images of road construction, machinery, workers, the camps, eating halls, wildlife, and scenics of the towns and the...

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Photographs of U.S. Army Alaskan Flying Expedition from New York to Nome, 1920.