Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Personal correspondence of the Governor Scott Bone Family., 1917 – 1948.

Poem, letters to Mrs. Booher, obituary of Benjamin Booher, Chisna Mining and Improvement Co. stock certificate, genealogy, handwritten diary, dated 1900, 1901.

The photographs collected by Ben Booher record his time in Valdez, on the trail and in the camps of the prospecting group.

Inscription from The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions by Vilhjalmur Stafansson, published by The Macmillan Co., N.Y., 1922; Stafansson also writes that he named Leffingwell Crags for Leffingwell and that he owes him for their safe arrival at Collinson Point.

The C.E. Bosserman collection has 8-8x10 photographs of WWII medical facilities, and chapel on Adak Island, Alaska. It also has 1 postcard of Anchorage.

Includes photocopies of diaries; describes trip from Ontario to the Klondike with his brother, Andrew, boat trip, packing from Skagway, boatbuilding, filing claims at Dawson for working on Bonanza, cabin construction, daily activities, and diagram of prospect location and mining work.

Consistes primarily of images from the Inside Passage and Southeast Alaska. Major John Tweedale photographed many of the images. Other views are LaRoche photographs, Seattle, Washington.

The diary of Frederick J. Boyd records his trip from Ypsilanti, Michigan, to Forty Mile, Alaska, via Detroit, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Dyea, Chilkoot Trail, Yukon River, Dawson, Yukon Territory, 1898 March 1 - 1899 July 28. Also included are five newspaper articles from an unidentified newspaper. The five part series of articles, titled “Narrative of a Klondiker”, were written by F.J. Boyd and describe his trip to the Yukon.

Views of Skagway, on the trail to the Klondike gold fields and the Brackett family in Alaska. Also images of Alaskan Native men and women, unidentified. Captions were taken from the photographs when available. Other information supplied from donation papers and Cynthia Driscoll Brackett’s book, One Woman's Gold Rush. Snapshots from Mollie Brackett's Lost Photo Album 1898-1899.

Includes images of Treadwell, Alaska and Bradley family views, 1906-1917.