Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents The Skinner Foundation (Alaska Steamship Company) photograph collection covers steamship activity in Alaska from 1898 until shortly after World War II. The 33 volumes that make up this collection cover subjects such as steamships, transportation, tourism, and Alaska towns and locations. This collection also contains Gold Rush photographs taken by various photographers at the turn of the century. Other topics include corporate activities of the Alaska Steamship Company such as vessel...

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Includes statements by U.S. Navy officers, Chas. W. Bartlett and E.C. Merriman, endorsing Chief Kokesh as friendly to Whites; this was following the bombardment of Angoon by the U.S. Navy, October 26, 1882.

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Interior and Southwestern Alaska views, 1935-1936.

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Includes portraits of Alexander Malcolm Smith, Earl Rossman, the Lomen Brothers, and Sir George Herbert Wilkins. Includes photos of the Fokker aircraft from the Wilkins Detroit Arctic expedition. Information supplied by Staff appears in brackets. Additional information, from an unknown author, appears in italics, in brackets.

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The Library file includes photocopies of the scrapbook of Alexander Malcolm Smith, loaned by his wife, Ann (now King) of Seattle, and his son Malcolm Alexander.

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The Kathleen Lopp Smith Family collection contains 53 black and white and color commercial postcards of Southeast Alaska, South central Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and the Yukon Territory. Four of the postcards look like private photos printed on postcard stock.

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The images are from Sitka and the majority are credited to The Photo Shop Studio. Images of two Tlingit elders, William Wells and Jim Jacobs, in traditional costume, are included. Scenic views of Sitka and the surrounding area and a few snapshots of businesses make up the remainder of the collection.

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Nanette Smith collected postcards, pamphlets, newsletters and film footage while on her cruise to Alaska in 1948, specifically of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, and the White Pass and Yukon Railroad. In addition, there are two news clippings and a copy of a Skagway Kangaroo Court receipt. All materials date from June 1948.

Scope and Contents 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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The Klondike photographs are by Winter and Pond with the exception of two images, unsigned. The collection also includes two small journals with faded pencil entries by Smith.