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Florence Carr Wendt Collection, 1935-1967 (bulk 1935)

 Collection
Identifier: MS 194
Scope and Contents This collection includes Florence Carr Wendt's scrapbook which documents her travels in memorabilia and photographs. Her trip also inspired a manuscript, “Life Along the Yukon as seen by a tourist in 1935,” which she described in her last will and testament as an "interesting and of-historical-value account of ship-rail-boat travel, about life styles, politics, natives and tourists and local color, geography from Seattle and Seward to Fairbanks, up the Yukon River to Whitehorse and back to...
Dates: 1935-1967 ; Majority of material found in 1935

Information on Livingston Wernecke and the Treadwell Yukon Company, 1983

 Collection
Identifier: MS 13-3-7
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of an account of the Wernecke Camp at Ladue and Keno, Yukon Territory.

Dates: Publication: 1983

Werner, Joseph R., 1910-1972, Collector

 Collection
Identifier: MS 147
Scope and Contents

The Werner Papers consist of three folders representing Werner’s interests from 1937 - 1951. Two folders contain monthly bulletins and other items of the Juneau Ski Club, 1937 - 1949. The third folder contains mimeograph copies of correspondence and treasurer’s report for the Alaska Logging Association for the year 1951. Photographs and other papers form a separate collection, PCA 3.

Dates: 1937-1951

Joseph R. Werner Photograph Collection, 1936-1972

 Collection
Identifier: PCA 3
Scope and Contents Images of the Juneau Ski Club, activities and members are shown in the Juneau and Douglas areas, and other skiing locations outside of Alaska. Contains a folder of information gathered during the planning and construction of Juneau's golf course, "the Million Dollar Golf Course," or "Sandblasters Club" first envisioned by Werner. Images of the wreck of the Princess Kathleen are included. Additional unidentified photographs of people, hunting and boating activities ("Ourluk") were added in...
Dates: 1936-1972

LeRoy West Collection, ca. 1940s-1950s

 Collection
Identifier: PCA 393
Scope and Contents

The photographs are primarily of Loran (long range navigation station) stations during the 1940s and early 1950s. Places include Umnak, Naknek, Cold Bay, Annette Island, Cordova, Yakutat, Gustavus, and Sitka.

Dates: ca. 1940s-1950s

Western Airlines Photograph Collection, 1926–1969

 Collection
Identifier: PCA 51
Scope and Contents

Photographs used by Western Airlines to promote travel to Alaska. Included are airplanes, from the 1920’s to the ‘60’s, communities and towns around Southeast Alaska, totem poles and carving, boats, ships, mining. An aerial view of the old Douglas Island bridge is included.

Dates: 1926-1969

Margaret M. & Roy J. Wheat Photograph Collection, 1917-1940s

 Collection
Identifier: PCA 491
Scope and Contents

Many of the photographs in this collection were taken by Roy Wheat when he was stationed in Alaska during WWI. The images are of Nome and Interior Alaska; the date range is 1917-1940s. Most of the photographs are carefully identified. There are also photographs of Captain Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (1920), when he came through Nome.

Dates: 1917-1940s

William L. Whitaker Photograph Collection, ca. 1899-1902

 Collection
Identifier: PCA 32
Scope and Contents

This collection contains views of Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, and Chilkoot Trail, ca. 1899-1902. The images in the albums show the beginning of the trip to Alaska about 1898; Skagway, Dyea, White Pass scenes during the Gold Rush; Juneau and area scenes and activities 1899.

Dates: circa 1899-1902

Papers of Captain John W. White and Dr. James T. White of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, 1877-1902

 Collection
Identifier: MS 49-9
Scope and Contents The collection includes a letter book (1877 1878) of Capt. John W. White's, from his service on the Steamer THOMAS CORWIN, which covers lifesaving station management in California, Oregon and Washington.The James T. White papers consist of records and journals kept from 1900-1902, while he served as surgeon and quarantine officer on the U.S.S. NUNIVAK. The papers describe life at St. Michael and include a descriptive account of the cruise in 1900 up the Yukon River to the winter...
Dates: 1877-1902

White, J. Eva: Missionary Correspondence, 1888

 Collection
Identifier: MS 4-14-3
Scope and Contents

Letter describes life and experiences of missionary work in Juneau.

Dates: 1888