Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Selective file of letters received from sons Thomas Dufferin Pattullo, 1897-1902 (Yukon), and James Burleigh Pattullo, 1899-1904 (Dawson).

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Project documentation for Angoon Clan house restoration project. Includes architects field notes, photographic survey, audio tapes of field notes and interviews with Angoon residents, camera ready materials for production of published book. Some of the material is previously published oral histories of the Angoon bombardment and general Angoon clan histories recorded by Curry and Weissbrodt.

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Color photographs, taken by M. Juanita Pauley, and maps of equipment and construction on the Alaska Pipeline, North Slope of Alaska, ca. 1970s.

Scope and Contents The slides show the lives and culture of the Eskimos on Little Diomede and Buckland. Many of the families and individuals are identified. Traditional activities such as walrus hunting, skinning, burial customs, the schools and school children, sod homes, fishing are depicted and the narrative offers history and additional information. A recorded narrative and transcription accompany the slides. Slide No. 1-58 (Part 1) depict their time in Buckland and Nos. 3-77 (Part 2) were taken in...

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The Grant H. Pearson manuscript, titled They’re All Gone Now, is a history of the first sourdoughs in the Kantishna, Alaska Mining District. There are biographies and detailed stories about some of the people who lived and worked in the Kantishna mining district. There is also a history of the first people to climb Mt. McKinley starting with the James Wickersham group in 1903 and the Lloyd group in 1910.

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Three 2x2 Kodak color photographic prints, developed in March and April of 1963 of the Douglas Indian Village.

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Southeast Alaska views, ca. 1905-1915.

Content Description All photographs from the earliest into the 1950s are black/white and in good condition unless indicated otherwise. They are organized in a rough chronology and often divided topically. Those undated and/or unidentified are grouped geographically when possible. Captain C.T. Pedersen is Christian Theodore; Theodore (Ted) Pedersen is his son. Ted was married to Marian Petersen Dunn then later to Elsa ? .The photographs show the Pedersen family and family homes, Arctic years,...

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The Peerless Bakery Business Records consists of receipts invoices, billing statements, and the business correspondence of the Juneau, Alaska, company. It contains a mix of originals and some copies.

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The collection includes photos of the John Penglase family and other Douglas residents, 1895-1912.