Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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The contents of this collection include a personal diary recording a ship voyage to Alaska and time spent at Clarks Cannery, plus additional handwritten narratives of the experience. There is also a letter he wrote to his mother on July 14, 1925 while at the cannery, as well as photos of the cannery and surrounding area. Some of the photographs have captions on the back.

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The Barry Van Sandt photo collection consists of photos taken by Barry Van Sandt in the Juneau and Sitka areas or collected by him during 1945-1949. The collection includes photographs, an explanation of each photograph, a short family biography, and an obituary for Dr. Max Van Sandt.

Scope and Contents The items of this collection document the role of Adolph D. Schmidt in the 1928 Capital to Capital Yacht Race. Items include a notebook of correspondence of the Capital to Capital Yacht Race, 1928, Photos (10) and negatives, copies of letters and articles, a scan of a Sydney Laurence painting of the Winifred (a boat), letters from the Mayor of Olympia and the Governor of Washington, and a blueprint of the race’s finish line in Gastineau Channel (the downtown Juneau area). Correspondence...

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The donation is composed of 55 images of Alaskan towns, coastline, and scenes aboard the SS NORTH SEA in the years 1938 and 1939. Paul Schmidt was the photographer and preparer of the glass enclosed slides.

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Photographs, Juneau, Alaska, 1946-1950. Primary subjects are the Richard Harris family, aviation, and dogs belonging to Mary Joyce.

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Includes name index and descriptive inventories for Judge James Wickersham's letter files from 1900-1910 (in MS 107, General Correspondence) and abridged transcriptions of Wickersham's diaries from Jan 1, 1900 to Dec. 31, 1933 (MS 107, Diaries).

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Juneau, Alaska and Southeast Alaska views, ca. 1912-1930.

Scope and Contents MS 101 v. 1, the Emma Louise Weinberg scrapbook, includes photos and postcards of Alaska Steamship Co. crew and passengers, St. Paul, Nome, Siberia, and other locations, Eskimos, Father B.R. Hubbard, and scenics; typescripts titled The Treasure Isles of the Bering Sea and Fur Seal Industry of Pribilof Islands, Alaska; newspaper clippings; Alaska Steamship Co. brochures, passenger announcements, passenger list, the onboard newsletters Mukluk Wireless and SS Victoria Radio News, tourism...

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Includes newspaper clippings of Alaska events, activities of the Kostrometinoff family and correspondence including a "skookum paper" letter written for George Kostrometinoff; also includes information on the Baranof Castle fire and the ships Neva and Thetis.

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The scrapbook includes clippings from Alaska, Washington, and Oregon newspapers and photographs.