Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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This collection includes views around the city of Juneau, unidentified individuals, and group portraits. One of the unidentified individuals may be Arthur Walther. Some of the photographs were taken during a union strike in the late 1930s. The few papers include notes, envelopes, identification cards, and receipts. Some of the papers are related to the labor unions and a number of the items belonged to Victor Grimm, a member of the local union.

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Group portraits of people from the Sitka community, 1906 to 1910. Also included is a photograph of the S. S. PRINCESS MAY.

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The collection includes a published book of music in the Russian Language, with two notebooks containing transliterations of text. The text contained in the notebooks seems to correspond to the songs in the published book of music.

Scope and Contents Alaska Railroad Construction. The majority of the prints are 8 x 14 cm. (3¼ x 5½ in.); includes one panorama. This collection documents the preliminary survey and early construction of the Alaska Railroad, ca. 1915-1917. Views include railroad survey and construction work, bridges, the towns of Fort Seward, Anchorage, Seward and Cordova, a portrait of Thomas Guy Wansbury and a panorama of the original railroad survey crew. Photographers represented in the collection include Louis H....

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Photographic prints of various Alaska communities and areas, and geographic features. Governor Sheffield’s inaugural ball, 1983.

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Tlingit family fish camp, Haines, Alaska, 1950s-1970s (bulk). Thunderbird House. Carr’s Cove, Alaska. Tlingit heritage. Smoking fish.

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The collection contains sheet music, stationery and a colorful collection of ephemera. Candy donates to the Historical Collections regularly. Items are added to her own collection and to other Historical Collections’ resources when received.

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The images depict people and places in Alaska. Photographs are added as they are received.

Scope and Contents Two letters from George to Ila and her family describe life in Juneau in the mid-1930’s. Includes a poignant account of the landslide in downtown Juneau, November 1936 in which 15 people died and mud was 20 feet high on Franklin Street, Juneau’s main throughfare. Webb describes “bathtubs … mashed flat [and] pipes … twisted into all shapes.” Another item from Mary, 1936, is a Christmas greeting to Ila and her family. Ila explained that the magazine image is from the little girl, who thought...

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This small collection contains photographs of Fairbanks businesses, the old Chena River Bridge, sunsets, wild flowers and a 3-hour timed exposure of a sunset in which the moon created a streak across the sky. Additional photographs were donated in 2005 from the William T. Dunn Estate. William Dunn’s mother was Kathleen Pearl Welden; Joseph Welden was Dunn’s great uncle.