Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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160 postcards: 1940's-1950's Alaska and Yukon

Scope and Contents 4 items in one folder: Letter (4 leaves), envelope, carte de visite (type of small photograph), and calling card. A transcribed, typescript copy of the original letter is included in the collection. Letter sent from Sitka, Alaska, dated August 20, 1877, to "Gib", J. Gibson Winnen, in Philadelphia from Lt. Rockwood who was serving on the U.S. Revenue Steamer [Thomas] Corwin. The [Thomas] Corwin was sent to Sitka in August 1877 when U.S. Treasury department agents expressed fears...

Scope and Contents The papers consist mainly of Claus Rodine's letters home, describing his mining endeavors including the Galesburg-Alaska expedition, and life in Nome, from 1898 to approximately 1914. Other family correspondence is included. Picture postcards were organized with the photographs; by correspondent. Apparently Mary's hobby was collecting postcards.The 346 photographs collected by Claus and Mary include early images of the Galesburg-Alaska Mining expedition, Boulder Creek mining,...

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Ethno-historical interviews, oral histories, documents and photographs from Bering Straits, Fairbanks, Susitna, Kuskokwim, Anchorage, Yakutat, Elfin Cove, Sitka, Juneau and Southeast Alaska, 1969- 1980s.

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This collection of photographs shows the construction of the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company mill facilities. The photographs were taken by Richard W. Roell. Juneau, 1915-1917.

Scope and Contents This scrapbook contains memorabilia of Byron Roherty's trip to Alaska on Alaska Cruise Line's Cruise Tour no.5, on the S. S. Yukon Star between May 26 and June 18, 1959. The collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, brochures, tickets and an itinerary for the trip. Included are newspaper accounts of travel in Alaska, including several written by Betty Dudley, a fellow passenger on Tour no. 5 in 1959.Places visited include Ketchikan, Juneau,...

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All photographs relate to Anna Montgomery Rolston’s cruise through Southeast Alaska in 1930, when she was 22 years old.

Scope and Contents The views of the U.S. Navy Alaskan Wireless Expedition are in fair condition, but fragile, having been removed from an album. Some of the views are fading, and include two cyanotypes. John Romeo also photographed and collected general views of other Southeast communities. These include views of the wreck of the PRINCESS KATHLEEN near Juneau in September 1952, and the subsequent rescue effort. These views are in good condition. [1911 U.S. Navy Alaskan Wireless Expedition from California...

Scope and Contents All of the photographs in Folders 1and 2, except for a couple of Whitehorse, are from the Nome region, ca. 1905-1907. The photographs of northern mining in Folders 3-7, which came from R. N. DeArmond, are also largely of the Nome region. Most of the photographs, largely by B. B. Dobbs, F. H. Nowell, and A. B. Kinne show prospecting activities, flumes, dredges, ditches, claims, and camps. Folder 8 contains miscellaneous gold rush era photographs. Folder 9’s photographs are primarily of...

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The collection contains one photograph album with 180 black and white photographs and 85 black and white loose photographs from about 1912-1933. The images depict scenes of daily life in Interior Alaska, particularly Fort Yukon. Several images chronicle the journey to Fort Yukon, including scenes of Juneau and Seward.