Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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History of the Alaska Road Commission and related organizations: Alaska Railroad Commission, Bureau of Public Roads, and Department of Transportation, as well as documentation of selected road building projects in Alaska, circa 1952-1970s.

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The work is an autobiography which details Campbell’s fur trade work with the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Garry, Fort Simpson (MacKenzie River District), Tlingit and Chilkat Indians, Stikine River and Fort Yukon. Includes introduction on origin of journals by John W. Todd, Jr.

Scope and Contents This collection appears to contain the same images as in PCA 9, which is described by R.N. De Armond: "These pictures seem to have been taken by a member of a party of gold seekers bound up the Yukon River, probably for Dawson and probably in the summer of 1898. It is surmised that they owned or traveled on the steamboat JENNIE M., since she is the vessel most often shown in the pictures. They wintered at some point along the river."The images also include views of the church...

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This collection contains a 16 page manuscript by William J. Betts, titled “Captain Castner of Chilkoot” and eleven 8x10 black and white images to accompany the manuscript. The photographs depict activities at Chilkoot Barracks, 1935-1937, and Colonel Castner.

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Captain Whitney's career with the Inspection Service took him to many Alaskan ports. The collection of 184 photographs covers numerous coastal communities from Ketchikan to Golovnin Bay, including many views from the Aleutian Islands. There are also views of the Tanana River, hunting and fishing, canneries, ships, Russian Orthodox churches, a voyage on the S.S. DORA in 1907, and totem poles.

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This collection contains several hand drawn maps showing cross sections of headlands and navigational courses, navigational calculations, and hand drawn charts of how to dock a vessel at various Southeast Alaska canneries. The first folder has instructions on how to use the captain’s portable pelorus. There are miscellaneous notes and correspondence regarding his work and a book of tables for navigation.

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Correspondence, photographs, and a genealogy compiled by M. Josephine Fletcher, a descendant of Richmond and Emma Marsh.

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18 photos, Carlson family and friends (including Stan Price), southeast Alaska, Pribilofs, ca. 1930s-1960s.

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Wrangell and Ft. Wrangel (also “Wrangle”), Alaska, totem poles, Stikine River, Glendora and Telegraph Creek, B.C. some of the images are mounted on studio mounts, some stamped on the verso: Carlyon’s Studio, Ft. Wrangle, Alaska. All are signed: F.W. Carlyon on the front of the photo. Other Carlyon photos may be found throughout the Historical Collections.

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This collection contains photocopies of letters written by Mrs. Carr to her brother Ernst and his wife Genevieve Fox and to other family members living in New York. The letters primarily celebrate the birth of their daughter, Wilhelmina, who was born July 1914 in Haines, Alaska. The photocopied photographs are of the Carr family while living in Haines and Porcupine, Alaska, in 1914. Included is a photocopied steamship menu from the S.S. Humboldt.