Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Recollections of mining enterprises in the Gastineau Channel area, ca. 1890-1922, a two-page biography of Philip Read Bradley from The Explosives Engineer, Sept. 1941, and a letter to Juneau Mayor, Bill Overstreet from P.R. Bradley, Jr. Includes information on A.T. Corbus, J.F. Corbus, Henry C. Perkins, J. Hennen Jennings, Feusi sisters, Henry Harland Bradley, Frances Ruth Bradley Messinger, and Ruth Frances Bradley Hume.

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Phyllice Bradner collected these images while working on media projects in Alaska, ca. 1960's-1970's. Subjects include politics, villages, economic sectors, people, communities. Organized alphabetically according to either location or subject. Most are unidentified.

Scope and Contents The Franklin Russell Brenneman photographs and papers include one photo album plus letters and various family papers which reflect his and his family's activities in Valdez and Katalla from 1903 through 1922, plus a few items concerning the family after their move to Long Beach, California, in 1922. The photo album contains snapshots of family and friends plus photographs purchased by the compiler. Photographs of interest are the first oil well at Katalla, Wood Island Mission, Judge Fred...

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The photographs show life around Nome, various Arctic communities, Eskimos, mining, whaling, airplanes and transportation, including views of Will Rogers and Wiley Post and the plane crash in which they were killed. The photograph collection includes an index of people, which is also a useful reference to the Brewster letters, MS 53.

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The John H. Brillhart collection of 233 photographs contains views of U.S. Forest Service and C.C.C. activities in Southeast Alaska from the 1930s to 1950.

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The 48 photographs in this collection depict a trip to Alaska in July 1926. Photos include Skagway on July 4, 1926; Cordova; Juneau; Columbia, Spencer and Childs Glaciers; McKinley Park; Liberty Falls, Pitchfork Falls and Delta River. Most of the black and white photographs (no negatives) have handwritten descriptive notes on the back of the photo.

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Most of the photographs were taken and captioned by Dave Brower. They depict Barrow events, whaling, hunting, Eskimo culture, the Brower family and friends and seven photographs of Charles and Anne Lindbergh with their airplane at Barrow, 1931.

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The postcards reflect the politics, history, geography, and other major Alaskan themes. People in photos are mainly from the Juneau area. The postcards were primarily published between 1980-1990.

Content Description Copy of letter written by J. S. Brown, 20 March 1877 to Secretary, Y.M.C.A., Portland, Oregon, seeking a missionary for the Tlingit Indians (Stickeens) at Fort Wrangel, Alaska. (6 sheets)Letter dated 1 June 1877 from Sheldon Jackson, Denver, Colo. to J. S. Brown, Fort Wrangel noting Brown's appeal to the Y.M.C.A. had been forwarded to him and seeking further information necessary to establish a mission at Fort Wrangel. (1 sheet)Printed flyer advertising THE ROCKY...

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Hirst-Chichagof Gold Mine, S.E. Alaska views, late 1920s. The collection includes other southeast Alaska views.