Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents The slides include economic survey statistics of the seven villages in the project, views of these villages, and activities of the people. Included are villages in southeast Alaska in the 1940s; Klawock, Sitka, Hoonah, Metlakatla, and Tyee.Sixty photographs were taken with a Graflex camera to be included in the 1948 report written by Margaret Lantis and Dr. Varden Fuller (economist with the Gianinni Foundation, University of Ca., Berkeley) and 31 were made into slides. The...

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Includes photographs of gold rush activities in the Klondike and views from the communities of Kassan, Ketchikan, Sitka, and Skagway during the same time period.

Scope and Contents This collection contains 2 Albums which hold 79 b&w and color photographs of the Dillingham area, the Scandinavian Cannery, P.A.F. (Pacific American Fisheries) Cannery, and family and friends of Lars Degn Nelson, from the 1920s through the 1950s. Also included is an oral history provided by Harlan Adkison, obituaries for Lars Degn Nelson and his mother Ella Adkison, as well as a book titled: “The Last of Yesterday.” The book was created by Dillingham high school students in 1972. It...

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The (prints of) photographs show views of gold mining activities in the Copper River area, including Bonanza Creek, Bonanza City and the Million Dollar Bridge, travel by dog sled, mining tent cities, and log cabin building. The photographer is unknown. Descriptions were provided by Ralph Buzzell* and by Staff.

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Klondike gold rush and Dawson, Yukon Territory, 1898-1904.

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This collection is composed of photographs of the Klondike gold rush and Dawson, Y.T., 1898-1904. Other photographers represented in the collection include E.A. Hegg and J.E.N. (Joseph) Duclos, partners of Larss at different times.

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Will of William Duncan of Metlakatla, Alaska, witnessed by Henry Wellcome, Henry J. Minthorn, Charles D. Boren. Unsigned.

Scope and Contents COLLECTION OF CAPT. A.W. LAVENDER, DEPT. OF INTERIOR 1890-1892, ST. GEORGE ISLAND SEALING STATION.A beautiful 10 x 14 water color of the sealing station at St. George Island, Alaska, by Henry Wood Elliott, 1846-1930, also two 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 pencil drawings by Elliott, were included in the purchase of this collection. They were removed and transferred to the Alaska State Museum.The collection includes 32 boudoir size photographs of Alaskan scenes, plus three larger...

Scope and Contents The photographs in the album primarily depict: (1) the couple’s trip from California to Kanakanak, Alaska (1931), (2) the Kanakanak Industrial School (T.I. Lavrischeff, Director, 1931-1932), (3) their trip from Kanakanak to Hoonah (many images of Unalaska) (1932), and (4) their life in Hoonah (1932-1936?). This collection also includes loose photographs (some duplicates), postcards depicting totems of Southeast Alaska, and a set of cards depicting color images of birds of Alaska (gift from...

Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of the project files for the book entitled The Law of the Land: A History of the Office of the Attorney General and the Department of Law in Alaska by Stephen Haycox (1998). The project files include the transcripts of interviews of many of Alaska’s past Attorneys General. The files also include major issues and legal entanglements during each Attorney General’s term, History Project Committee meeting minutes and activities, Native Law working group...