Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents Alaska Railroad Construction. The majority of the prints are 8 x 14 cm. (3¼ x 5½ in.); includes one panorama. This collection documents the preliminary survey and early construction of the Alaska Railroad, ca. 1915-1917. Views include railroad survey and construction work, bridges, the towns of Fort Seward, Anchorage, Seward and Cordova, a portrait of Thomas Guy Wansbury and a panorama of the original railroad survey crew. Photographers represented in the collection include Louis H....

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Photographic prints of various Alaska communities and areas, and geographic features. Governor Sheffield’s inaugural ball, 1983.

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Tlingit family fish camp, Haines, Alaska, 1950s-1970s (bulk). Thunderbird House. Carr’s Cove, Alaska. Tlingit heritage. Smoking fish.

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The collection contains sheet music, stationery and a colorful collection of ephemera. Candy donates to the Historical Collections regularly. Items are added to her own collection and to other Historical Collections’ resources when received.

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The images depict people and places in Alaska. Photographs are added as they are received.

Scope and Contents Two letters from George to Ila and her family describe life in Juneau in the mid-1930’s. Includes a poignant account of the landslide in downtown Juneau, November 1936 in which 15 people died and mud was 20 feet high on Franklin Street, Juneau’s main throughfare. Webb describes “bathtubs … mashed flat [and] pipes … twisted into all shapes.” Another item from Mary, 1936, is a Christmas greeting to Ila and her family. Ila explained that the magazine image is from the little girl, who thought...

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This small collection contains photographs of Fairbanks businesses, the old Chena River Bridge, sunsets, wild flowers and a 3-hour timed exposure of a sunset in which the moon created a streak across the sky. Additional photographs were donated in 2005 from the William T. Dunn Estate. William Dunn’s mother was Kathleen Pearl Welden; Joseph Welden was Dunn’s great uncle.

Scope and Contents This collection includes Florence Carr Wendt's scrapbook which documents her travels in memorabilia and photographs. Her trip also inspired a manuscript, “Life Along the Yukon as seen by a tourist in 1935,” which she described in her last will and testament as an "interesting and of-historical-value account of ship-rail-boat travel, about life styles, politics, natives and tourists and local color, geography from Seattle and Seward to Fairbanks, up the Yukon River to Whitehorse and back to...

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Photocopy of an account of the Wernecke Camp at Ladue and Keno, Yukon Territory.

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The Werner Papers consist of three folders representing Werner’s interests from 1937 - 1951. Two folders contain monthly bulletins and other items of the Juneau Ski Club, 1937 - 1949. The third folder contains mimeograph copies of correspondence and treasurer’s report for the Alaska Logging Association for the year 1951. Photographs and other papers form a separate collection, PCA 3.