Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Includes reprints of articles by staff, department publications, material collected by the Department of Health and Social Services, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Scope and Contents This collection contains 42 photographs from a cruise ship trip through S.E. Alaska. There are images of the mansion and totems of Chief We He, tourists on Muir Glacier in Glacier Bay, several of towns and villages and ships passengers, Native life, and artifacts, Taku Glacier, Native Alaskans, fishing, totems, a Sitka cedar forest, Juneau, a Juneau Presbyterian Church, the Treadwell Gold Mine, Sitka Native Alaskans, a view of Sitka from the dock, 50 men on a cedar stump, tourists, Native...

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Letter concerning hunting disputes on Hinchinbrook Island, Prince William Sound.

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This collection includes documents from District of Alaska, U.S. Marshal's Office, Revenue-Cutter Service, extracts from Maj. William Gouverneur Morris' report on the cruise of the steamer, Favorite.

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Selected U.S. Dept. of Justice records on Nome, Alaska justice, collected by William R. Hunt for his book, Distant Justice. Primarily includes correspondence and affidavits relating to Nome scandal involving Judge Arthur Noyes and Alexander McKenzie, 1901-1903.

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Recollections of the families and businesses at Scow Bay; family names include: Hofstad, Arness, Molvers, Grenier, Bjorge, Thomassen, Breack, Johnson, Tate, Humes, Owens, Nicholson, Adsero, Lyons, Benjamin, Reid, Peterson, Hungerford, Whipple, Sarber, Duval, Willard, Steears, Wooten, Bigelow, Lebrun, Heiner, Breck, Doyle, and others.

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Black and white photographs of road crew, tractors, snow clearing, road; and work certificates, ca. 1899-1930.

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Views of Hoonah, Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau, Taku Inlet, and Port Frederick are included in this collection. Many of the photographs were taken by Juneau photographers, Winter and Pond, Trevor Davis, Ordway and Neff, Walter G. Hellan, and Sitka photographer, E. W. Merrill.

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The collection exists of 13 panoramas approximately 57 x 12 inches, black and white or sepia. They are very fragile. A smaller version of these and other Sheelor panoramas are located also in PCA 63. Sheelor panoramas are also online in the Library of Congress American Memory Project, http://memory.loc.gov