Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains 12 glass plate negatives and 35 mounted photographs of Juneau, Sitka, Dyea, Skagway, the Chilkoot Trail, and the Yukon Territory. A 28-page, bound scrapbook published in 1909 by Winter & Pond contains prints and photographs of Juneau and the surrounding area. The collection also contains a few of Ruhe’s manuscripts.

Content Description From the Collection:

Many of the views in this collection were used to illustrate Sam White’s story of his work in Alaska; serialized in the ALASKA SPORTSMAN magazine from December 1964 through November 1965. Most depict airplanes and villages in interior Alaska. Subjects include Alaska Game Commission personnel and offices, airplane crashes, the Wien brothers (Merrill, Sig and Noel), and localities, such as Ft. Yukon and Tonzana.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The black and white photographs in this collection are materials in addition to those already described as the main body of PCA 97. Subjects include: hunting, fishing, school groups, Masons, Baranof Hotel Opening, glaciers, inlets and lakes, Juneau and Douglas, a number of unidentified lakes, glaciers, mountains and coastal sites, Hawk Inlet, floating fish traps, cannery buildings, and fishing boats. Photographers included are: Winter and Pond, H. W. Steward, B. B. Dobbs and Trevor...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Provenance unknown. This collection contains one postcard album. The inscription on the inside of the front cover of the album reads: “Received Mar 6 – 1919 from Hal Meredith in far off Germany.” The postcards, and original photo prints, contain images of Southeast Alaska and Northern Alaska. An exceptional series (37 – 49) depicts activities at the Akutan whaling station photographed by W.J. Lind.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of glass lantern slides presents a visual story of Alaska and Alaskans from the late nineteenth century until 1916. The collection is ongoing; slides are added to the end of the collection as they are received. Subjects include communities, pioneer life, fishing and the fishing industry, logging, ships, glaciers, farms, animals, landscapes and Alaskan Natives and their culture. The slides are both black and white and color; some are hand-tinted.

Content Description From the Collection: The collection consists of 299 glass plate negatives created principally by David Waggoner. Another 883 prints are taken from photo albums kept by David and Mary Waggoner. The images depict people and communities in Southeast Alaska, particularly Klawock and Juneau. The collection also includes an album of 49 photographs relating to the 1929 U.S. Navy Alaska Aerial Survey Expedition, featuring aerial views of communities in Southeast Alaska. It also includes a booklet of photos titled...

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Canby original number 4 (Glass Lantern Slide)