Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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This collection includes views by Case and Draper, Winter and Pond, Ordway and Trevor Davis. Most of the images contain captions about the canneries and mines in southeast Alaska.

Scope and Contents PCA 473 and Related Materials. The collection is comprised of a publication: Southeast Alaska Salmon Fishery: A Guide to Interviews with Men and Women Engaged in Commercial Fishing, 1913-1978. Text by Stephen B. Levey; photos by George Figdor. Alaska State Library Historical Monograph No. 6, Alaska Department of Education, Juneau Alaska, 1979; Photograph and manuscript material accumulated in the course of writing and publishing Southeast Alaska Salmon Fishery; audio interviews (originally...

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The 316 color slides in this collection feature schools and towns in Southeast Alaska, with emphasis on Juneau area schools, from 1966 through 1970. There is also a short description of a boat trip to Snettisham to set up a school there in 1970. There were 11 children of families involved in the Snettisham construction project. The last page lists some of the people on the trip.

Scope and Contents A commemorative album presented to Michael J. Heney by his friends and employees of the White Pass and Yukon Railway (WP&YRR). The photographs are by H.C. Barley, WP&YRR’s official photographer, hired in 1898, the same year that Heney went to work on the railroad. The album contains photos of the White Pass & Yukon and the Copper River and Northwestern railroads, railroad employees, railroad construction. The album also contains 15 pages of poetry, tributes to his work and...

Scope and Contents These 2 albums cover the Harriman Alaska Expedition in May through August of 1899. Volume I covers New York to Cook Inlet and Volume II covers Cook Inlet to Bering Strait and the Return Voyage. Included are 253 photographs by Edward S. Curtis, one of the official expedition photographers, and other expedition members including C. Hart Merriam and Harriman himself. There are a total of 253 photographs, plus a map of the route. Subjects pictured include Alaska coastal towns, flora, fauna,...

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This collection contains 9 souvenir programs from Sitka High School basketball tournaments. The programs contain photographs of players and articles written by Dr. Gil Truitt concerning the history of high school basketball in Sitka. Also included is a poster, “Sitka ANB Tribe, 1914-1964” featuring ball players who wore Sitka ANB uniforms, 1914-1964; Hall of Fame individuals are named; dedicated to Peter Simpson.

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...