Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Content Description From the Collection:

Special file on Alaska history (1764-1967) collected by the Alaska Purchase Centennial Commission for the celebration, 1967. Selections include portraits of historical figures, images from early exploration, towns, industry, natural resources and environment, Alaska native communities and art, and maps.

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The Stanley Nowicka Photograph Collection, 1904-1918, includes 296 black and white photoprints in an album and one folder. Subjects include the Juneau, Douglas, Ketchikan, and Hoonah areas, Mendenhall glacier, Governor's mansion, Fourth of July speeches, mines, ships, the Nowicka brothers, and other snapshots.

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Includes hand-drawn designs submitted by 46 Alaskans; also includes general information about the Department of Territorial Police.

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Includes hand-drawn designs submitted by 46 Alaskans; also includes general information about the Department of Territorial Police.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains 142 photographs and commercial postcards (Lowman Bros., Nome, Alaska) of interior Alaska and the Nome area taken and collected by Walter S. Smith. These black and white photographs depict life in this remote section of Alaska. There are pictures of prospectors, Native Alaskan people, dog sled teams, dogs, and mining or trapping camps. There is a photograph that shows the graves of Derabin [Deraibin] (Russian) and Barnard (English Naval Officer) killed...

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Lorain Roberts Zacharias collected photographs from several locations with views primarily of mining activities in Dawson and Chisana (also known as Shushana, Shushanna, or Qhisina), family views, and scenics. Photographers represented in the collection include Winter & Pond, Case & Draper, Wolfe, L.H. Smith, and J. Doody. The collection also contains a mining claim location notice, notes with penciled drawing from her husband, and other papers.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Lorain Roberts Zacharias collected photographs from several locations with views primarily of mining activities in Dawson and Chisana (also known as Shushana, Shushanna, or Qhisina), family views, and scenics. Photographers represented in the collection include Winter & Pond, Case & Draper, Wolfe, L.H. Smith, and J. Doody. The collection also contains a mining claim location notice, notes with penciled drawing from her husband, and other papers.

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The collection includes mostly stock images of Fairbanks, Nome, Anchorage, and Juneau; also Eskimos, sled dogs, and a few images of unidentified people. Many of the photographs were collected from commercial photographers, including Winter and Pond Co., Walter Hylen (Fairbanks), Sawyer, B.B. Dobbs, Charles Cann, Julius Fritschen (Anchorage). Others may have been photographed by Mina Lang.

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The Juneau Family photo album, ca. 1920, looks like it belonged to a family that lived in Juneau, Alaska. The photographs depict the Juneau area including Douglas, Thane and the Nugget Creek power station. They also depict Juneau area people and activities. The owner of the album was possibly an electrician or caretaker of the Nugget Creek power station and lived there with his family.