Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Content Description Collection consists of 24 black and white photos of Eskimo National Guard members and construction of armories in the following Alaska villages: Alakanuk, Arctic Village, Hooper Bay, Koyuk, Noorvik, Shaktoolik, Shishmaref, St. Michael, Teller, Unalakleet. Members of the U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska, Western Alaska Residency assisted members of the Alaska Eskimo Scouts Battalion in constructing 48 prefabricated metal buildings, which would serve as armories in remote northern Alaska...

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Unpublished report is a general description of the construction of the bridge over the Copper River near Miles Glacier; also includes a map of the area and photograph of the Miles Glacier Bridge.

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Fourteen photographs depicting mining operations at Coppermount, Alaska.

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The collection includes correspondence, account ledgers, vessel information and miscellaneous business records for the Juneau Ferry and Navigation Company, Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co. and Treadwell Store, and the Alaska Meat Co. In 2004 an historical sketch of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. and Corbus family genealogy were added from the backlog.

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Includes correspondence, diagram of car ferry designed by Phil Brinck and Assoc., and news release to Marine Digest, May 27, 1961, on ferry system in British Columbia.

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Correspondence with The Thiel Detective Service concerning the past history and citizenship investigation showing John Alexander Strong to be a British subject, also related letters. Jan.-March 1918.

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Juneau, Alaska and other views, ca. 1913.

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Cape Nome prospecting life.

Scope and Contents All of the photographs in the bound photo album document a large-scale mining operation. Only four of the photographs have identifying notes. The first three photographs, which show horse teams pulling loaded sleds across ice, are labeled Tagish Lake. Photograph number 31, which shows a man standing beneath a flume, is labeled J. Cropley. The 3 ½ by 4 ½ black and white photographs are mounted one per page to black album pages. The images include scenes of hydraulic mining, the harvesting...

Scope and Contents The Richard G. And Mary S. Culbertson Papers are primarily the correspondence of the family while living on St. George and St. Paul (Pribilof Islands) from 1924-1931. Mary wrote most of the letters to family back home. The Papers also include a description of the Pribilofs titled “The Mist Islands,” written by Richard.The Culbertsons taught Aleut school children in the Pribilofs. Richard also worked as U.S. Commissioner; this position included many different functions, such as...