Florence Carr Wendt Collection, 1935-1967 (bulk 1935)
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 Seattle in long-ago 1935.” Menus in the collection, from the S.S. Victoria and S.S. Yukon, depict scenes of Alaska by photographers E. Andrews, H.W. Steward, and woodcuts by Glenn Sheckles. Postcards, postmarked 1967, sent to Florence from a friend or relative who wrote from places in Alaska and the Yukon that Florence herself had visited in 1935 were left in the album (loose) where they were found.
Dates
- 1935-1967
- Majority of material found in 1935
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is unrestricted.
Biographical / Historical
Florence Carr Wendt was born on Nov. 17, 1903 in Horicon, Wisconsin where she lived until April 5, 2001. In June of 1935, she traveled from Wisconsin to Oregon and Washington, then toured Alaska, the Yukon, and British Columbia by rail and steamer.
Extent
0.8 Linear Feet (1 box) : 7 folders: scrapbook, unpublished manuscript, menus (S.S. Victoria & Yukon), print of Sydney Laurence painting
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was a gift to the Alaska State Museum, Juneau, from the Florence Carr Wendt Estate (Douglas W. Plier, attorney). It was transferred to the Alaska Historical Collections on October 5, 2001.
Processing Information
The pages in the scrapbook are fragile and deteriorating but it was left intact so that a number of items can be unfolded or removed from envelopes to view. The pages are numbered. Loose photographs have been sleeved in Mylar. Eighteen loose travel brochures, some of which are duplicated in the scrapbook, were transferred to MS 102.
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Florence Carr Wendt Collection, 1935-1967 (bulk 1935)
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Processed by: Laura Wood, Feb. 2002; ArchivesSpace Finding Aid by: Jacki Swearingen
- Date
- 2019 May
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids Repository
PO Box 110571
Juneau AK 99811-0571 US
907-465-2920
907-465-2925
907-465-2151 (Fax)
asl.historical@alaska.gov