Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Images include equipment, construction, mobile camps, aerial views, Dept. of Highway employees and construction workers. The collection also includes a typescript "The History of the Haul Road."

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Dept. of Fish and Game employees photographed or acquired the images in this collection. Many of the first 155 photographs have individual descriptions while the remaining views are arranged by subject. Subjects include Dept. of Fish & Game vessels, tagging and other activities of the department, hatcheries, canneries, southeast Alaskan islands, coves and bays, birds, marine animals, game and hunting.

Scope and Contents This collection of photographs includes views taken from 1960-1975 by photographers in the Alaska Travel Division and used for tourism activity. The black and white photograph prints and negatives were placed in the library in 1976. The collection is arranged by subject groups as received from the Division. Among the photographs are views taken by Fred Belcher when he was state photographer. His photographs are included within the subject groups and a special collection attributed to him...

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Includes official and sample ballots, official returns, number of registered voters per district, and newspaper clippings. Folders arranged in chronological order.

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The collection of contact prints show the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. in operation, design and construction, machinery, railways, power plants, warehouses, mills, the surrounding area including Gastineau Channel, Salmon Creek, Sheep Creek, Annex Creek, Mahoney Lake.

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[Photocopies of documents from National Archives.]

Scope and Contents The federal government operated hatcheries at Yes Bay, this collection includes eleven logbooks of the station operation from 1906-1934. Three logbooks related to the Quadra Hatchery, which was a mandatory hatchery, are included in this collection. The logbooks cover the years 1908 - 1935. Also included is a logbook of the Hetta Hatchery on Prince of Wales Island, a voluntary enterprise, which closed in 1918. Copies of correspondence and a history of the government operated Afognak...

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Alaska Folk Festival memorabilia, programs, posters, and backdrops.

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Alaska Gastineau Gold Mining Company engineering drawings, drawn by Frank F. Ward, and other items, Juneau, Alaska, 1914-1919

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Booklet includes Christmas Eve dinner menu, lists of officials and foremen, and photographs; booklet prepared for Christmas Eve dinner given by G.T. Jackson, mine manager, for the officials and foremen.