Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents Earl Rossman inscribed these views to Karl Thiele, a friend and Alaska pioneer who served as Secretary of Alaska from 1925-1933. Several views were taken in Southeast Alaska but most were taken in the Arctic.Earl Rossman recorded his Alaska experiences in the book Black Sunlight; a Log of the Arctic (New York, Oxford University Press, 1926). In 1923, after photographing Southeast Alaska natives and losing the motion picture footage in a sinking boat, Rossman decided to see more...

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Includes correspondence, last will and testament, and notice of location of placer claim on Lost Horse Creek.

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The collection contains photographs primarily of Dutch Harbor-Unalaska region. There are photographs of whale butchering, native Alaskans in Savoonga and Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. There are also photos of King Island, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Shosco in Juneau, and a few postcards including one of the Post-Rogers airplane disaster. Thompson was probably in Alaska in 1938-1939.

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The collection contains black and white photographs of adolescent students and student activities at the Eklutna Vocational School, where Paul Thompson taught during the late 1930’s. Most of the students are identified. The collection contains many scenic color slides of glaciers, totems, landscapes, mountain ranges in locations throughout Alaska – the Interior, South Central, the Aleutians, the Pribilof Islands, and Southeast. The slides begin at number 146.

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The album is a collection of photographs by William H. Case and Herbert H. Draper. Many of the photographs are of places and subjects of interest in the Juneau, Sitka, Wrangell, and Ketchikan areas in Southeast Alaska. The collection spans the years from 1886-1913.

Content Description The collection primarily includes photographs and negatives. Correspondence, stationery, photographic manuals, programs, newspapers and other papers relating to military life comprise the remainder of the collection. Photographs are largely of the Aleutian Islands, but they also trace his progress by ship from the San Francisco Bay Area north along the coast to the Aleutians. Using a Graflex camera, Thornton photographed camp scenes including inspections, social gatherings and interiors of...

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Coastal Alaska from Ketchikan to the Aleutian Islands, ca. 1906-1932.

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Photographs taken in Alaska by Winfield Scott Tilton, between 1951 and 1960, while he was employed by the Alaska Road Commission and later the Bureau of Public Roads.

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Time Tables, 1898. Pacific and Arctic Railway and Navigation Company. White Pass and Yukon Route.

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The images show the areas around Mary’s Igloo and Teller, including schools, classrooms and students. Also shown are reindeer, Eskimos (many are identified), fishing activity, a cemetery, native housing, Teller reindeer station and the Lutheran Mission construction. The first 33 photos were taken in the Teller area (PCA0138-1 through PCA0138-33), the remaining were taken in Mary's Igloo (PCA0138-34 through PCA0138-115).