Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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...

Scope and Contents Albert De Leo worked on the Copper River Railroad construction crew. He took photographs with an Eastman 3a camera and then made postcards to sell. The De Leo postcards include images of Cordova (Alaska), the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, Kennicott (Alaska), and Eyak Indians. The postcards also contain correspondence written by De Leo to his brother and sister in Minnesota. Includes scenes of the railroad construction camp and the railroad, Native Alaskans, scenics around...

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Robert DeArmond photographed and cataloged advertisements and illustrations from early Alaska newspapers. Topics range from business ads to images and engravings from books, pamphlets and ephemera about Alaska. This collection includes newspaper mastheads, newspaper flags, Tlingit and other Alaskan Native designs, illustrations, cartoons, maps.

Scope and Contents Boxes 1 through 4 of the collection include Bob DeArmond’s “Juno’s Days of Yore”; “News of the Gold Camps”; statehood-related writings, articles, clippings, reports and bills; “The Postal History of Yukon Territory” by R.G. Woodall; obituaries from late 1800’s gathered from Alaskan sources; articles on steamers, fishing vessels, and other marine information from Ketchikan’s Daily Alaska Fishing News; and significant dates in Alaskan aviation, dates of shipwrecks. Boxes 5 through...

Scope and Contents This collection of contact sheets and negatives primarily includes vessels and shipwrecks. R. N. DeArmond compiled the collection from photographs copied from the Lloyd A. “Kinky” Bayer Collection and the private collection of Ralph E. MacKay.Other views of the Nome area, Juneau, Ft. Gibbon, Tanana, Ft. Hamlin, Valdez, mining activities, and aviation activities were copied from the Dobbs, Lomen Bros., Simmer, Case & Draper, Winter & Pond, Partridge Bros., and D.D....

Scope and Contents The collection includes Alaskan images, ca 1890-1972, primarily photographs. Some major subjects are Juneau buildings, scenes and events; Southeast Alaska communities; modes of transportation; vessels; mining, and Alaskan individuals and groups. Other subjects include Canadian materials and other nonAlaska topics.The Guide to the Collection includes an Index of Photographs and Negatives arranged alphabetically by subject and item-level inventories of images. All items are listed...

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The photographs in this collection (mostly prints) depict the life of gold miners and prospectors in Nome and on Anvil Creek around 1900. In addition to mining activities, the images include barges, ships and shipwrecks, prospectors, Eskimos, and local businesses. Photographer unknown.

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Includes deck log, p. 296-302 before, while standing by, and after the wreck of the Princess Sophia.

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Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1896, 1897, 1898; black and white photograph: Sheldon Jackson teachers.

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Sitka, Alaska, ca. 1886-1890.