Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Includes lot locations, local rules and regulations, and land transfers.

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Record of school cash receipts and paid school warrants by various school board treasurers, 1905-1944. Includes names of personnel and businesses paid, with number of warrant and amount of payment. Sometimes includes name of treasurer.

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This collection contains a diary kept by Elizebeth Davis Lewis Dowell during her voyage to Nome, Alaska and back to Seattle, Washington in the summer of 1900. There are 10 pictures of Stephen Layton Dowell’s gold rush ventures and his family’s trip to Nome. Also included in the collection is Elizebeth and Stephen’s daughter Catherine (Cassie) recollections of her life from 1897 to 1900 written at the age of 78.

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Includes Alaska native villages, schools, village water supply systems, sanitation sites, equipment and employees of the Sanitation Dept., and canneries. The photographs are arranged by location and broad subject categories.

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Photographs of fish wheel traps, float planes, mine areas; portraits of Native Alaskans and interior of church, Yukon? River and land views; other activities such as fishing, surveying, pile driving. Dated 1940s.

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Typescript of Historical Monograph no. 2, Education in Russian Alaska.

Content Description Includes views of communities and community events, scenic views, petroglyphs, river steamboats (steamers), railroads, Alaska native culture. The first 41 photographs in this collection were taken by Mrs. Drake and have her notations. The remaining photo postcards are views of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Her collection also includes a postcard (no. 35) carried by members of the New York to Nome Flying Expedition. Commercial photographers included in the collection: Winter &...

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The collection includes 101 prints of Metlakatla, Alaska and B.C., William Duncan, the church, schoolhouse and other structures and the Tsimshian Indians who lived there at the time. Includes the signatures of the Tsimshians who moved from Metlakatla, B.C. to Metlakatla, Alaska.

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[Juneau, Alaska and Tlingit Indian views primarily by Winter and Pond, photographers 1894-1900?]

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This collection contains views of Robert and Hilda, their friends, school children, Thane and the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company mill. There are also interior views of the Treadwell mines, including the cyanide plant.