Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Letters describing his trip to Sitka in 1885, comments on teaching, the school, life in Sitka, hunting, and the people; includes a letter from F.L. Moore, a Tlingit Indian, to Pres. Cleveland, 2/26/1893, recommending A.J. Davis for governor of Alaska.

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Indian Songs of Alaska (Southeast), 1922. Indian Songs of Alaska is a collection of Tlingit music written down by Carol Beery Davis. Rev. Andrew P. Kashevaroff collected the English and Tlingit lyrics. The notebook containing the songs is dated 1922.

Descriptive Booklet Alaska Historical Museum, published by the Alaska Historical Association, undated, was inscribed by Father Kashevaroff to Mrs. Trevor (Carol Beery) Davis in thanks for her work on this project.

Scope and Contents This collection includes items from the life of Carol Beery Davis, Trevor Davis, and their daughters in Juneau, Alaska. The bulk of the materials cover the period from the 1940’s to the 1980’s. Correspondence of both Carol and Trevor Davis, original and copied music scores written by Mrs. Davis, music programs and concerts, three scrapbooks, logbooks from their boat Cordelia, and metal printing plates for some of her published sheet music are in the collection. A Poetry Society notebook,...

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The Davis collection contains 35 black and white photographs of various sizes regarding Rosemary Davis’ teaching career in Alaska. The photographs show Rosemary, high school basketball teams, school band class, Douglas Island Women’s club, native school children, the Bethel Beach Home for native children (Christine Peterson and Mrs. Millie Stevenson, missionaries in charge). Rosemary is in many of the photographs and is holding a saxophone in the band class photo.

Scope and Contents The black and white photographs in this collection are materials in addition to those already described as the main body of PCA 97. Subjects include: hunting, fishing, school groups, Masons, Baranof Hotel Opening, glaciers, inlets and lakes, Juneau and Douglas, a number of unidentified lakes, glaciers, mountains and coastal sites, Hawk Inlet, floating fish traps, cannery buildings, and fishing boats. Photographers included are: Winter and Pond, H. W. Steward, B. B. Dobbs and Trevor...

Content Description In 1983 Mr. Davis donated nearly 2,000 of his negatives to the library. Black and white contact prints were made of over 1,300 of the views and they are listed below by subject, starting with number 97. The Juneau views show changes and growth as well as many activities and celebrations. The collection contains views of other communities in Alaska, Alaska native cultures, railroads, ships and glaciers. In 1990, approximately 1,250 color slides of Juneau, Sitka, Tracy Arm, and Glacier Bay...

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The 15 photographs in this collection were taken in the mill of the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company, ca 1930. The details concerning gold processing and machinery were provided by John Mulligan and others at the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Juneau.

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Includes original newspaper and copies of index to personal names and geographic locations prepared by Dawson Museum and Historical Society.

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Includes alphabetical list of funeral records; each record includes: name, age, place of birth, occupation, cause, place, and date of death, attending physician, location of funeral service, grave, funeral cost.

Content Description PhotographsHistorical Collections currently holds nine file boxes of photographs and negatives from Frederica de Laguna’s travels in Alaska: 1930 (two boxes), 1931 (two boxes), 1932 (one box), 1933 (two boxes), and 1935 (two boxes), and 10 binders containing photos from 1952 through 1954. Two separate inventories included here describe the 1952-1954 photos. In addition, Historical Collections has one box of photoprints of images selected for use in the monograph The...