Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Correspondence between the school teachers Jim and Geri Baenen and Mary Harris between early October, 1971 and mid-March, 1972. Topics about village life include child rearing, salmon fishing and preservation, and village activities.

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The collection includes images of military forts, telegraph stations, World War II, Army personnel, prisoners of war, and general views of Alaska. Photographs numbered 1-41 are from the National Archives and 42-193 are from the Pentagon.

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Map has penciled squares representing houses in Unalakleet. List below drawing has corresponding numbers and names owner of house. Also noted are privies, wells, caches, dog barns, warehouses, oil tanks, garages, footpaths, roads. The photograph is an aerial view, fading color.

Scope and Contents The collection includes photographs of the Fairbanks and Nenana areas, Eskimos, Will Rogers-Wiley Post plane wreck, Mary Hansen's Siberian dog team, bears, and Army camps for road building. Also included are photographs of bridges in Alaska, Northwest Territories, and the Yukon. There are a number of photographs related to the Canol Road & Pipeline Project during the period of its construction from 1943 to 1945. The Canol photographs include images of various geographic features,...

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Views of vessels, sport fishing activity, scenics, unidentified villages, waterfalls, glaciers, wildlife, floral arrangements, individual and group photographs, natives and seal hunting activity are included in this collection.

Abstract These records are a sampler of several series of records relating to Alaska in Record Group 60 at the National Archives, Washington, D.C. Photocopies were made of general information regarding appointment of federal judges, marshals and attorneys in Alaska; also files relating to specific individuals. There are some examples of examiners reports made in response to problems or routine investigation at Sitka (1888) and Nome (1903).There is an extensive file of correspondence...

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United States Bureau of Indian Affairs Photograph Collection, 1964 : Alaska Good Friday Earthquake, March 27, 1964. Images includes residents, disaster workers and views of Chenega, Afognak, Kaguyak, Old Harbor, Ouzinkie and English Bay. A text narrative accompanies the photographs.

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Records: Selected Alaska Material from Record Group 22. Washington, D.C., National Archives.

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This collection of slides and photographs includes views and groups of views arranged under the photographer's name and shows particular forest/area locations at specified times. Images include forestry activity, logging, pulp mills, fox farming, Healy coal fields, villages, national forests and other Alaskan subjects and landscapes. Thirty-eight photographers (USFS personnel) are included; others images were taken by unidentified photographers.

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This collection contains black and white images, ca. 1897-1902, of Dawson and the gold fields, mining operations, life and events in Dawson, and other settlements in the Yukon Territory. Many of the photographs were taken by H. J. Goetzman. Some of the images indicate they were gifts of R.N. DeArmond.