Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Prospectors’ papers, ca. 1920’s-1960’s This collection consists of two separate recollections made by Ashby and Senator Aldrich of their time as prospectors. English to Chinook language dictionary is also included in this collection.

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This collection of photographs shows Valdez, travel along the trail, dog and horse teams carrying the mail, freighting activity, some mining scenes, crossing the Yukon River and the riverboats. Identified roadhouses include Wortman's, Yost's, McDevitt's, Rapid's, Donnelley's and Manley Hot Springs Hotel.

Photographers whose views are in the collection include George Cantwell, Albert Johnson, P.S. Hunt, and C.L. Andrews.

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Biographical data files, death dates, 1899-1977.

Scope and Contents The Auke Bay Laboratory collection, Fisheries and Wildlife Research in Alaska, 1920s-1980s, is a valuable graphic history of the research done by the Auke Bay Laboratory and the earlier Fish and Wildlife Service in the state of Alaska. The collection of approximately 25,000 slides and 7,000 photographs features images from all over Alaska and a few from Seattle and Canada from the 1920s to the 1980s (bulk, 1950s to 1960s.) Subjects cover a wide range of topics mostly related to...

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Includes documents in which Metropolitan Theophilus of St. Nicholas Church, Juneau, directed Michael Z. Vinokouroff, Library of Congress representative, to remove church records to the Library of Congress.

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101 images. Many of Ruby, 1910-1911, including views of mining activities, community events, people, dog teams and river boats. Miscellaneous postcards of other Alaskan towns (Fairbanks, Skagway, Wiseman, Coldfoot, Koyukuk River, Russian Mission, Flat, Iditarod, Louden, Tanana); steamboats on Yukon River; 1930s -1960s group photographs of Alaska-Yukon Club (California) activities.

Scope and Contents The papers are comprised mainly of the personal correspondence and reminiscences of Dell Bachelder. A close correspondent was Alaska Representative and Senator Charles D. Jones; he was one of the three who cast Alaska's first electoral ballots for U.S. president in December 1960. Also included are the correspondence of Jay Bachelder and Marian Bachelder Williams, newspaper clippings and family legal documents (including Alaskan stock certificates). Miscellaneous materials include an...

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This collection includes views of the Bachelders and their friends, mining activities in the Nome area, Nome community activities and scenics. Photographers represented are Lomen Bros., B.B. Dobbs, A.G. Simmer and K.O. Butler. The quality of the photographs ranges from very poor to good. Many views are postcard size.

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This collection contains two family photographs, handwritten notes, and newspaper clippings relating to mining in the Klondike, Yukon Territory. They were written and collected by Andrew Baird.

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This collection contains photographs primarily of Skagway, Dyea and the Chilkoot Trail. The images were taken by photographers A. C. Hirschfield (Hirchfeld), H. C. (Harrie) Barley and E. A. Hegg.