Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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This folder contains a letter to his family (parents and sister Laura), describing his life in Sumdum as head of part of the mining operations; he mentions Windm [Windham], Silver Creek, bear and deer hunting, and halibut and trout fishing. [Sumdum Chief Mine at Sumdum. Dated July 22, 1899, addressed to “My Dear Folks at Home” and signed “Your Som and Bro Bart Thane”] (3 handwritten pages on two sheets of Sumdum Mining Company letterhead)

Scope and Contents The collection consists of the handwritten letters of the Bartlett L. Thane Family of Juneau, Alaska, dating from 1911 to 1915. The collection contains 31 different letters with corresponding postmarked envelopes. The letters were all sent from Juneau to relatives in the town of Niles in Alameda County, California. These relatives were Bart Thane's ’parents, Joseph E. Thane and Laura E. Thane, and Bart Thane and his sister Laura Whipple’s grandfather, Judge Harman J. Tilden. The letters...

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Collection is comprised of 94 “stereoviews” dated 1916.

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Original manuscript of article "The Alaska Boundary Question," Century Magazine (v. 52, May, 1896, pp. 143-146). Collected by Judge James Wickersham. Published version cited in his Bibliography of Alaskan Literature as #950.

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Little is known about the photographer or time period in which the photos were taken. However, according to Peter Corey, curator of the Sheldon Jackson Museum, the photos could not have been taken prior to 1905 due to the placement of the Son-i-hat totem and house posts in two of the photos. Views include Sitka, Tongass Village and Old Kasaan. Sitka (Alaska), Old Kasaan (Alaska), Tongass Village (Alaska), southeast Alaskan communities, Tlingit Indians

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Hoeppner tells of sailing to Alaska in 1901, construction of the Red Salmon Cannery Co. cannery on the Ugashik River, Bristol Bay region. He describes fishing, canneries in the area, people, and activity during the winter until the following fishing season.

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Photos of activities connected with mining, transportation, communities in Interior and Coastal Alaska.

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.