Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Abstract Series I contains first or earliest issues of a newspaper title or rare issues. Some early issues which were laminated as well as issues from James Wickersham’s collection (“Wick”) are also kept here.Series II contains annual or anniversary issues such as Progress Editions.Series III contains issues with topics or events of special interest which could be in demand for filming or display. Boxes are numbered separately within each series. All boxes are...

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Includes report, cover letters, and photocopies of two articles from Alaska Magazine on Attu and the Aleutians; describes conditions, problems of the evacuation and relocation effort and agencies involved.

Scope and Contents The slides and photographs were taken by Lloyd Spetzman during his career as a botanist for the U.S. Geological Survey and the Dept. of Agriculture in the Arctic region, Interior Alaska and South Central. Images include buildings in Anchorage, railroad engines and stations, canneries, fishing boats, Alaska Railroad scenes and equipment and photos taken during a trip from Anchorage to Seward includes Matanuska Valley and Glacier, Kenai Peninsula, Portage Glacier, Spencer Glacier, Bartlett...

Content Description The original collection housed at the Alaska State Library, Historical Section in Juneau, Alaska, contains 63 lantern slides. A lantern slide is a positive image on glass, not a glass negative. The slides were purchased by the Sheldon Jackson Museum from Ellen S. (Mrs. Tom) Harrington, and transferred to the Alaska Library in 1990.The 63 slides described here, while not in their original boxes, were apparently selected for their significance and quality. The selection is...

Scope and Contents A small handmade booklet about St. Mark's Episcopal Mission and boarding school, Tortella Hall in Nenana, Alaska. Original photographs illustrate the booklet and hand written and typed notations explain the contents. The book describes the Mission's work and the school that housed and instructed twenty-eight children of varying ages. Among the Athabascan children and youth pictured is Walter Harper, who was with Archdeacon Hudson Stuck on the 1913 ascent of Mount McKinley, and for whom...

Scope and Contents Stafeev’s journal and letters provide many facts concerning the ethnography, economy, and social history of the period in Alaska from 1880-1895. During this time Stafeev served in trading posts at Nuchek, Tyonek, Douglas, and Kodiak. Entries while he was at Tyonek (1884/1888) mention Dena’ina shamanism, hunting routines, the conduct of the fur trade, traditions, customs, and beliefs. There is information of the murder of traders Holt, at Knik, and McIntyre, at Kodiak. The journal is...

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The collection consists of photos taken by Mr. Stanley and collected by Beatrice during her marriage to Mr. Mason. Images include gold mining, dredges, freighting and activities at Forty Mile, Goldstream, Shushana, Fox, etc, 1904-1929. Also included is Part II of Return to the Frontier, by Beatrice Stanley. This part of Mrs. Stanley's autobiography describes the Mason’s life 600 miles up the Porcupine River.

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Includes statements regarding Andrew Kendukol'so[?] and Vassilii Nal'khov[?] written by Vladimir Douckow, Priest of St. Michael's in Sitka.

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Photographic scenes of Dolomi, Ernest W. Steers, friends, family, and his boats, as well as Katalla, Ketchikan, McKinley, Holy Cross, Bering Sea. The collection includes two boat logs, a workmen’s time log book from Dolomi days, and a journal of Mr. Steers’ trip to Katalla.

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Anchorage, Juneau, political events, ca. 1958-1980.