Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents The Asa C. Baldwin original photograph collection includes views of the Alaska Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1907 to 1913. The photos were taken by Baldwin while he worked as a surveyor for the U.S. Government on the boundary survey. In addition, the collection contains photos, dated 1916-1942, of the Yellow Band Gold Mine located in Bremner Range near Chitina, McCarthy, Alaska, as well as general Alaskana. There are other photographs...

Scope and Contents The Asa C. Baldwin manuscript collection includes writings, maps, and information about work done on the Alaska Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1910 to 1913. The collection also includes papers documenting Baldwin’s activities on prospecting, surveying and work at the Yellow Band Gold Mine near Chitna-McCarthy in the Bremner Range. The addition to the collection contains more documents concerning the above activities from c. 1910-1942;...

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The YUKATAN [ship] in Alaska; voyage in Southeast and Southcentral Alaska, 1909.

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Includes Ballaine's business activities in Alaska with letters from prominent people. Much on the townsite of Seward, Alaska Central Railroad construction and forest industry development in the Susitna River and Yentna River area.

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Diary tells of trip from Portland to Alaska in May 1900; recounts adventurous but unproductive explorations along the Nushagak River; includes notes on a visit to Fort Simpson (B.C.) concerning canneries, settlements, and prices.

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Includes documents relating to Juneau Public School building bond and promissory note for Alaska Masonic Temple Association; banks include: B.M. Behrends Bank and The First National Bank of Juneau.

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Unpublished manuscript includes table of contents, bibliography, biographical information about the author, and a cover letter.

Scope and Contents This collection contains views and photo description card files related to the Kuskokwim River region, Bethel, Moravian Missions, and Eskimo culture, 1880s - 1940s. The 14 contact sheets contain prints of negative strips. There are up to 35 images per contact sheet. The photo description card file information is organized by village or town. The file card may include the source of the photograph, such as Gonzaga University, Felder, or Moravian Archives (MA) at Bethlehem, PA. Other...

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The collection includes Skagway street scenes, people, scenics and vessels; photographs of the White Pass and Yukon Railway route and personnel; views taken at Klukwan. Other sources of Barley’s work include the Paul Sincic Collection, PCA 75, an inventory of photographs at the Yukon Archives, Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6, and a collection owned by Robert T. Whiting, P.O. Box 2703, Denver, Colorado 80212, phone (303) 477-2134.

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The collection contains photo postcards and photographs taken by or collected by William Barquist. The collection includes views of Treadwell, Juneau, Douglas, Southeast Alaska, and the Kennecott Mine, 1895-1935. Other photographers represented in the collection are: Winter & Pond, Thwaites, Olsen, Leo Smith.