Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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The collection of turn of the century photographs contains snapshots as well as studio- mounted images from Winter and Pond, Dobbs, Nowell, Kinne. Subjects include miners, mining and mining camps, Tlingits from Southeast and Eskimos from Nome, and unidentified landscapes. Locations range from the Bering Sea to Southeast Alaska and include Anvil, Nome, Koyokuk River, and many unidentified towns. Two images of the Nome Artic [Arctic] Railroad and the Wild Goose Railroad are included.

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Scenes from Skagway to Dawson relating to the Klondike Gold Rush. ca. 1897-1910. The collection is arranged by areas starting with Skagway and the White Pass. Dyea and Chilkoot Pass are followed by mining operations in the Dawson area and other miscellaneous views Most of the photographs are copy prints and better images may be found in other collections such as:

P.E. Larss PCA 41 Winter and Pond PCA 21 AND 87 Paul Sincic PCA 75 E.A. Hegg PCA 124 Charles Metcalf PCA 34

Scope and Contents The Charles F. Knapp Collection contains correspondence written by Charles F. Knapp to his family during his stay on the Chilkoot Trail and enroute to the Nome gold rush, 1899-1900. The papers also include correspondence from Charles F. Knapp’s mother “Little Grandmother” to Earl and Hazel Knapp, 1897, and from Lyman E. Knapp to Charles F. Knapp, 1904.Also included in the collection are 2 watercolor paintings done by Martha Severence Knapp, wife of Gov. Lyman E. Knapp, a...

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The papers center around Lyman Knapp’s tenure as governor of territorial Alaska, 1889-1893. They include correspondence, speeches, writings, subject papers, programs, proclamations, orders, periodicals, and other memorabilia. Correspondents include Sheldon Jackson, William Duncan, Taku Sub-Chief Annatlas, James Sheakley, A.P. Kashevaroff, and Sol Ripinsky. Photographs may be viewed at PCA 438.

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Views include Sitka, also Juneau, Douglas, Glacier Bay, Kadiak [Kodiak]. The images are primarily by commercial photographers during the 1890s. Photographers include Alberstone & Moosbauer, I.W. Taber, Edward De Groff, and Gray & Hereford. Papers form a separate collection, MS 142.

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73 scenic postcards of travels in Alaska in the 1960s. Postcards by the following publishers: C.P. Johnston, J and H Sales Co, J. H. Bell, Mike Roberts Studio, I.A.A.C. Inc., Dedman’s Photo Shop, Alaskan Postcards, H.S. Crocker Company.

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Snettisham Hydroelectric Project, legislators, Juneau, and southeast Alaska. Negatives only.

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Miscellaneous views and research documents pertaining to early Alaskan and Canadian towns, people, steamboats, train accident, 1935-1940; Map of lower Yukon River, 1898-1899.

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Poetry books and booklets by various authors, mostly set in Alaska. Some have been signed by the authors.

Scope and Contents This collection includes 20 transcripts of interviews with 17 people on such topics as Kodiak during World War II, the Baptist and Russian missions, Aleut basketry, village life, midwifery, native foods and medicine, folk stories, and Kodiak geography. Interviewees include: Julie Knagin, Barbara and Ken Hockmuth, Frieda Reft, Ella Chabitnoy, Katherine Chichenoff, Anfesia Shapsnikoff, Sister Hilary, Carmel Schumacher, Dr. Bob Johnson, Larry Matfay, Sophia Simeonoff, Martha Kahutak, Simon...