Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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The collection contains materials dating from ca 1803 until ca 1828; it includes photocopies of inventories from the Peter-the-Great Museum of Ethnography, a copy of the entire Kruzenshtern Collection (Fond 1414) from ENSV Riiklik Keskarkhiv (Central State Historical Archive of the Estonian SSR, Tartu), unpublished works by Evgeniia Blomkvist and other articles and unpublished essays.

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Case records include: name, date of admission, diagnosis, treatment, and result; includes autopsy records on death of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, August 15, 1935.

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The collection includes glass plates, diaries, letters and photographs some of which relate to Henry C. Barrows’ time on the U.S. Revenue Cutter, Grant, in the Aleutians and Pribilofs. The Grant was part of the Bering Sea Patrol from 1895 through 1900. The diaries include his voyage to Alaska on the Grant which left Port Townsend, WA, May 21, 1896 and returned to Seattle Sept. 29, 1896. It called at Sitka, Unalaska, Sand Point, Attu, Dutch Harbor, Kodiak Island.

Scope and Contents Herem photographed the Whale House screen and house posts in the late summer of 1994 during the time it was housed in Seattle, and made the images available to museums and libraries. The five images show close up detail of sections of the house posts and one full image of the screen. Information about Klukwan and the Whale House may be found in books in the Historical Collections. The story of the sale and repatriation of the Whalehouse artifacts is told in the article:...

Scope and Contents The collection contains portraits and photographs of E.B. Barteau, family and friends, riverboats on the Yukon River, communities in Alaska and Yukon Territory, scenes from the White Pass and Yukon Railroad, the Klondike gold rush, Lake Bennett, Carcross, Atlin, Skagway and Whitehorse, several views of President Harding's visit to Nenana to drive the Golden Spike of the Alaska Railroad in 1923, glaciers, railroads, and mining, circa 1890s-1930s. Photographers represented in the collection...

Scope and Contents The collection contains extensive files of information of personal interest to Capt. Bayers, which he obtained from individuals, Juneau newspapers (usually the Daily Alaska Dispatch and Daily Alaska Empire) and magazines, covering the early days of Alaska history up until his death in 1968. The collection contains 291 spiral-bound notebooks, 28 scrapbooks and numerous manila envelopes with clippings about Juneau and other southeastern communities, local events, statistics,...

Content Description The images were either photographed or collected by Kinky. Not all of the negatives on file have been reproduced. Photocopies exist for some of the images and may have been made from the hundreds of photographs in the scrapbooks and (photo) postcard albums located with the manuscripts. Subjects include fishing vessels (the bulk of the collection), southeast Alaska scenics and individuals. More images are included in the scrapbooks, postcard albums and ship albums located with the...

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Includes excerpts from letters and photographs and a biographical sketch; places visited include: Siberia, Unalaska, Barrow, Point Hope, Wainwright, and Nome.

Content Description This collection contains black and white photographs and 39 copies of photos taken and collected by the William G. Beattie family during their time in Alaska. The photographs are well labeled and include many names of people living in Southeast Alaska villages as well as many scenery and village views. There are also 19 pages of what appear to be scans and photocopies of photographs from another album. There is a typed story by Tsimshian elder, Mr. Sidney Campbell of Metlakatla, titled...

Scope and Contents The Becker Collection contains over 300 contact prints selected from approximately 322 nitrate and safety negatives. The photographs vary in size (4x5 to 5x7 to 8x10), some are hand (tinted) colored. Also in this collection is a folder of documents that includes a newspaper photograph and article concerning the last photograph ever taken of Will Rogers which was taken by Becker. About 20 Alaska Sportsman magazines are included in this collection some of which include Becker...