Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents A majority of the slides were taken in Southeast Alaska, with the bulk of these focusing on the Juneau area, including many scenic images of the city of Juneau and of surrounding mountains, glaciers, and trails. There are photographs of other Alaska communities, as well, including communities whose artisans created handicrafts for sale at the Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative Association, also known as The Cache, which was owned and operated by Ivil and Ethel Montgomery. The subjects...

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This collection contains 30 negatives and prints made from them. The Alaska State Library Historical Collections had them printed in 2002. The photographs are of scenery, people, homes, totem poles, and boats in Ketchikan, Alaska, ca. 1918. There is one photograph of two native Yukon River pilots dated June 8, 1898.

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Letter, April 23, 1889, written by Anna Pressnall Moon, signed Silas R. and Anna Pressnall Moon, Douglas, Alaska, to her sister Elizabeth [Pressnall] Stanton concerning the first years of their Quaker missionary work building a school in Douglas, Alaska.

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Includes legal documents, correspondence, claims recordings, and reports relating to the Pande Basin Gold Placer Co. and other mining interests in the Sitka Mining District.

Scope and Contents Photographs of the Nome area, 1900-1903, Eskimos and Alaskan scenics. Some of the photographs were taken by Perry Moore. Others are commercially prepared; some by O.D. Goetze. NOTE: Included are several photographs of a visit by U.S. Senators. These are possibly Senator W. P. Dillingham, of Vermont, Senator H. E. Burnham, of New Hampshire, Senator Knut Nelson of Minnesota and Senator E. M. Patterson of Colorado. Also included in that party were Sergeant at Arms of the Senate; Col....

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Diary of trip to gold fields of Alaska and the Yukon. Places visited include: Juneau, Skagway, Lake Bennett, Dyea, Chilkoot Pass, Tagish Lake, Lake LaBarge, Dawson, Eagle City, Circle City, Fort Yukon, Rampart City, Port Winthrop, Fort St. Michael, Shaktuluk, Dexter, Nome, and Dutch Harbor.

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This album contains photographs he collected while stationed at the Ft. Davis Army Post from 1915-1919. The collection also includes 21 views taken by Lomen Bros. Images record the daily life of the soldiers at Fort Davis Army Post and people and community activities in Nome. Also includes the All Alaska Sweepstakes, gold mining, Alaskan towns, scenics and wildlife. 1913-1919.

Scope and Contents The papers in MS 127 contain manuscripts and notes of Frances Knapp Morgan centering around her life in Sitka from 1890-1893 and the Morgan-Inman correspondence from 1958-1962. Although the correspondence continued until Morgan's death in 1965, the letters from 1963-1965 have not been located by the donor. Pauline Winchester Inman's revised Morgan manuscripts and correspondence with publishers and others interested in Morgan's writings, are also included. Inman's work on the manuscripts...

Scope and Contents The collection contains the two albums described above as well as 2-16mm films.One film is of a trip on the Alameda from Ketchikan to Skagway. The film includes footage of canneries and buildings such as Quadra (N.W. Fisheries Co., Boca De Quadra, Alaska), Metlakatla Commercial Co., Alaska Pacific Salmon Corporation (APSC) Sunny Point Cannery in Ketchikan, and Superior Packing Co. in Tenakee Inlet. Also included are views of fish traps, the Taku and Mendenhall glaciers, Auk...

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17 page, typed, double spaced manuscript titled “Early Day Adventures of a Pioneer of Alaska” by Jorgen Mortensen.