Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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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).

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This collection includes Louis Shotridge’s notes on 5x7 cards with information concerning such subjects as Tlingit clans, genealogy, hostage/slave, Lhich-Naedi House, Shungoo-Kaedi House, geographic names, photographs, specimen (Tlingit artifact descriptions), warfare, and the itinerary of Louis Shotridge while gathering information from 1922-1924. Also included is a copy Shotridge’s map of study sites and a letter of the map’s transfer from the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

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This collection contains 59 - 8 x 10" black and white photographs of Tlingit chiefs, Tlingit villages, and village activities as well as 2 portraits of photographer G.T. Emmons. In addition to the prints, there are 232 views (photocopies) of early Tlingit people, their activities and villages. The photographs are by J.M. Blankenberg, G.T. Emmons, Richard Maynard, C.F. Newcombe, and J.E. Worden.

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Diary of nineteen-year-old Leo R. Healy, who with his brother George Healy, journeyed to the Yukon Klondike Gold Fields in 1898. Arriving in Seattle after a train trip from Chicago, Illinois, the two brothers bought their outfits and voyaged to Skagway, then over the Chilkoot Pass to Dawson. After a brief stay, seeing conditions in Dawson, they returned home via the Yukon and St. Michael.