Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Family photographs. Strawberry Point, now Gustavus, Alaska, 1914-1917.

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Photographs of Arctic City, Holy Cross and Bergman, Alaska, 1899. The photos were probably collected by John Alexander in approximately 1911.

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The 1909 letter protests threatened withdrawal of mail service on the Yukon River, the hardship to those living in the region and need for maintaining the trail; also Stuck feels Frederick Cook's claimed ascent of Mt. McKinley was not possible as he described it. The 1910 letter presents the case of two natives who failed to receive payment from the government for moving a reindeer herd from Unalaklik to Bettles.

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Nondalton and Igiugig Photograph Project, 1978-1979

Scope and Contents Gov. Swineford collected the photographs during his 1888 voyage aboard the Thetis. Included are views of the Thetis and its crew, Eskimos, seal harvesters, the Jane Grey, Orthodox Eastern Churches in Alaska, King Island, St. Paul Island and other Alaskan villages along the coast. The collection includes 26 duplicate photographs, mounted on Bristol board, captioned in ink. Since some of the captions differ from and provide more information than the image in the album, the information has been...

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Eskimo drawings. The prints are copies from her sketch book; the originals are oil or water color.

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Mr. Olive writes that this is a story told to him by William Ogilvie. It is about a young man named Pam who took the Dyea trail to the Klondike, his partner Sir Beaujoy Longchamps died enroute. He finds a purse on the trail and returns it to its owner. Later, in Dawson, Pam meets a dance hall girl who sends her earnings to her brother for college. It turns out that she is the person, disguised as a boy, whom he had helped on the trail.

Scope and Contents The manuscript collection includes four log and work books kept by surveyors probably during the construction of a short rail line with the initials A.P.R.T. Co. -- Alaska-Pacific Railway and Terminal; Company. The books mention going in and out of Juneau as well as Whale Island and Lake Kustaka; Catalla [Katalla] is also mentioned. The notes are mostly property boundary surveys and a few tonnage calculations.According to Howard Clifford in Rails North, "The APRandT Co. was...

Scope and Contents This collection includes 36 translated letters written between Anna Karlsson and Charles Sutherling from 1902-1904. Also available, in digital form only, are 18 letters in Swedish from Anna Karlsson (later Mrs. Sutherling) to Charles Sutherling. Anna’s letters were translated and are part of the 36 translated letters. 15 photoprints of Charles Sutherling, Anna Karlsson (Sutherling), and the Nome area are also contained in this collection. Photographers include E.A. Hegg and...

Scope and Contents The collection contains 571 images, 191 of which are black and white prints, the remainder color slides. Which images Dora Sweeney photographed is not documented, but many of the slides are probably hers. The black and white photographs date primarily from the 1950s to the mid-1960s, with the legislature as their subject. One oversize image is a composite of portraits by W. H. Case, entitled, 1887 Alaska Pioneers' Association, copyright 1908. The color slides may date as early as 1935 and...