Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Excerpt from unpublished manuscript recounting two years (1911-1913) he spent with his parents in Ft. Liscum, Alaska as a boy of 12.

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Primarily clippings from Alaska newspapers; also includes magazine articles, a map (The Oil and its Impact), correspondence, public service messages, and an index of names from Anchorage Daily News articles. Newspaper clippings were provided by a commercial clipping service.

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Color images of Juneau, mostly the downtown area. Most cover two decades (1930-1950) although there are some photos from the 1950s and 1960s (and one from the 1970s).

Scope and Contents This collection includes dated and undated correspondence, invitations, mining and other legal records, financial records, memoranda books, drawings by William John Harris (son of R.T.), photographs including those of Joe Juneau and R.T. Harris for "Old Tillicum" cigar ads, maps, publications, a scrapbook, newspapers, and Masonic Order materials that belonged to R.T. Harris. The collection contains documents that provide insight into the history of the Harris family and of R.T. Harris'...

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Manuscript provides an overview of the school's beginnings and his recollections of events.

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This collection of postcard views represents a small number of photographs Father Bernard took while in Alaska. They are Series 9 and 10 and were printed in France. Images include the Catholic Mission, Seward Peninsula; Eskimos; portraits; dog teams, between 1906-1916.

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The photos include views of Chitina, Seward and the Alaska Central Railway, bridges, tunnels, a few businesses (Seward and Anchorage), and images of people, some identified. Many of the photographs are attributed to the photographers Evans and Anderson. Bob Evans was a Douglas photographer.

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Brief manuscript by wireless operator C.R. Ferguson. The manuscript describes sailing a large windship along the Bering Sea coast in 1925. The Alaska Packers Association ship “Star of England,” took supplies and Chinese and Filipino laborers to canneries along the Bering Sea coast.

Scope and Contents Accession 2000-57 The 22 color slides concern the Mt. Edgecumbe Airlift of 1961 – 1962. A note provides the following comment: “Students from all over Alaska arriving by airplane, 1961.” The slides were numbered consecutively. Accession 2006-02 These Ed Ferrell photographs are a collection of photographs, negatives, and slides that include images taken of the Chilkoot Trail; Fantail Trail to Atlin, B.C.; Forty Mile, Yukon River; Art Skinner’s Gun Shop; Livengood, Alaska;...

Scope and Contents Research notes and materials for published and unpublished non-fiction books, spanning the years 1853-2009. Working files for several of Nancy Ferrell’s published books, such as Barrett Willoughby: Alaska’s Forgotten Lady (1994), Battle of the Little Bighorn (1996), Alaska’s Heroes: A Call to Courage (2002), Destination Valdez (1998), and White Water Skippers of the North: The Barringtons (2008). The collection specifically contains: photographs for publication, vital records,...