Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents Bicentennial Oral History Project, 1975-1976. Members of the Alaska Chapter of the Future Homemakers of America conducted 35 interviews in 11 Alaskan communities during 1975-1976. The interviews are concerned with life in Alaska before 1950 and are recollections of dating, transportation, education, clothing, occupations, food, holidays, marriage, church, medicine, recreation and crises.The interviews are usually accompanied by an oral history agreement and historical...

Scope and Contents Kitty Gair Collection, ca. 1880 - 2002, bulk ca. 1930s-1980s. Box 1: Acc no. 2004-003 The collection consists of personal papers. Biographical information, research notes, degrees, certificates, licenses, awards, recognitions, memberships, family and medical papers.Box 2 - 6 Acc no. 2014-018 Professional papers; undated, 1945-1991. 0.3 cubic feet. (Originally Series 1 of UAA collection) This series contains the professional papers of Catherine Gair. Included are materials...

Scope and Contents Boxes 1 and 2: Acc no. 2014-018 Slides; 1946-1972 (Originally Series 3 of UAA collection) This series contains 45 folders of color slides. Folders 1-33 consist of views at various locations in Alaska and British Columbia. The slides are roughly grouped and arranged alphabetically by location. The slides in folders 34-45 are grouped by subject areas. The folders are arranged alphabetically. Examples of the subjects included are: animals, children, glaciers, and ships and boats....

Content Description The papers (Ms 94) contain copies of official reports and memoranda on the colony development and problems. Conflicting orders from various agencies or boards connected with the colony caused difficulties for colonists and administrators. Mrs. Gamble also received personal letters from colony officials that describe their concerns and activities. There are a few letters from colonists and copies of various publications or writings on the colony from newspapers throughout the country. The...

Content Description The collection includes the official photograph album of the Matanuska Colonization Project, 1935 by the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp., and miscellaneous views, giving both an official and personal perspective. Willis T. Geisman, official photographer for the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. (A.R.R.C.), produced four or five unique photograph albums covering a period from April to October, 1935. They were dispersed to the A.R.R.C. office in Palmer, the Governor of Alaska, the Federal...

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Photographs from 1900, showing dogsled teams and women of Nome.

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The collection includes contracts, agreements, permits, correspondence, and certificates from the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co., Hirst-Chichagoff Mining Co., the Perseverance Mine, and the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. Some of the original documents are housed with the Gastineau Channel Historical Society. Although the documents are in the 1903-1959 time period, the bulk of the collection is from 1912-1915.

Scope and Contents The files were kept by the Gastineau Pioneers Book Committee as they compiled information on Juneau families for the book, Gastineau Channel Memories, 1880-1959. Files contain correspondence, articles and, sometimes, photos sent by families for inclusion in the book. Each family’s file also includes a draft of the story’s form as condensed for use in the book. As the title states the bulk of the information covers the period from ca. 1880 to 1959.Box 2, Acc. #2004-62 contains the...

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Records of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company at Thane and Chichagof Development Corporation, 1911-1932. Includes Alaska Gastineau Mining Co. records of expenditures and construction costs, data on paper mill possibilities and development of Salmon Creek Dam, and correspondence for Alaska Gastineau Mining Co. and Chichagof Development Corp.

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Alaska Gastineau Mining Co. at Thane, including the Thane Milling Plant, Salmon Creek and Annex Creek power plant views, and plans and design drawings. Photographers represented in the collection include Winter & Pond and Serrott (?). Photographers’ numbers, if printed on the photograph, are included in parentheses in the inventory.