Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Includes local laws, ordinances, regulations, and minutes. Holograph certification by William M. Eddy dated August 24, 1921.

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Early Nome mining, Fourth of July, downtown Nome, wolf dance, sea wall, collapsed houses.

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Includes minutes, stock journals, ledgers, and certificates; also includes a finding aid to the Pioneer Mining and Ditch Co. records.

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The majority of this collection is comprised of log books and track books which contain magnetic headings lists. The ships which Captain Nord commanded that are represented in this collection are the Jefferson, the Alaska, and the Aleutian.

There is one folder of sleeved photographs and two folders of news clippings and correspondence mostly relating to Captain Nord’s loss of the Aleutian, and later his death.

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The collection consists of typescript copies of Northern Commercial Company’s correspondence from Eagle, Alaska, from 1903 to 1904, and a photocopy of the firm’s telegraphic code.

Content Description 888 photographs, b&w, a few tinted Scope and Contents The William R. Norton Collection holds a total of 888 prints made mainly from glass plate negatives. The total of images is greater, since some of the glass plates hold from two to four images, since they are copy negatives. In addition, several images are duplicated, represented by a glass plate, a lantern slide, and a positive glass plate. The quality of the image varies with the...

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Includes handwritten note pasted into McClure's Magazine, August 1906, which contains story, "The Unexpected" by Jack London.

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Includes bank notes signed by William E. Ward and W.C. Hall, manifest of merchandise signed by Deputy Collector John Beegle at Dyea and William Zimmer at Chilkoot Summit transporting merchandise under bond to Yukon Territory, and receipt of assessment from Dan McDonald.

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Notes on the former customs and religion of the Atka Aleuts and on the Koloshi, the inhabitants of northwestern American, from Part III of Notes on the Islands of the Unalashkan District.

Scope and Contents The collection includes slides of rural schools and school personnel throughout Alaska in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Images were probably taken by Dr. Dorothy Novatney as she traveled around Alaska as Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary Education and then as Deputy Commissioner of Education. As the slides were numbered, it can be assumed they were used for reporting back to the territorial Department of Education in the form of a slide show. Each slide is identified presumably by Dr....