Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents Cyrus Kingsley Gates collected these postcards at age 15 on a trip to Alaska with his uncle, P. G. Gates, of Pasadena, California, during the summer of 1920. Dates of the photographs on the postcards range from 1898-1920. Photographers represented include J.E. Thwaites, Winter and Pond, Sydney Laurence, Logemann, Maude Dempsey, E.A. Hegg and Lowman and Hanford Co. publishers. Scenic landscapes, villages, towns, glaciers, totem poles, steamboats, roadhouses in Alaska and British...

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This collection includes correspondence and photographs concerning Fred Geeslin’s work with the Alaska Indian Service, including information and photographs concerning relocation and resettlement of Aleuts to Southeast Alaska, during and after WWII. Also included are images of Juneau, Alaskan villages and landscape, and Geeslin family portraits.

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Ledger includes applications for mineral patents, Native allotments, homesteads, millsites, mission sites, townsites and others in the Tongass National Forest. Also includes a list of Rights-of-way. Type of patent (homestead, mineral, Native allotment), name of patentee, address, description of land, date/notations, and serial number are listed.

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This collection is from an album put together by Irene Chesney McGillvray. It contains postcards and photographs printed on postcard stock of several places in Alaska.

Scope and Contents Many images are those of the Winter and Pond Co., with some by Ed Andrews, Trevor Davis and others. The emphasis is primarily on the Juneau area and Southeast Alaska, including copies of very early views of Juneau. There are also a number of ship views and Alaskan governors’ portraits. Interior views of the gift shop and Joe and Thelma George are included in the section, “Juneau businesses” and “Personalities.”Black and white and color photographs of Sydney Laurence paintings...

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This collection includes the album “Record of Trip To Alaska” which documents the voyage of Marcia A. Truesdell, in 1940, on the C.P.R. S.S. Princess Louise and her trip on the White Pass & Yukon Railroad. Included is information, photographs, and post cards detailing her visits to Victoria, Vancouver, Alert Bay, Prince Rupert, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Taku Glacier, Juneau, Skagway, and White Horse.

Scope and Contents The photographs collected by Captain Luebben include Fort Liscum grounds and army personnel (three panoramic views of the fort and soldiers), ships, and Keystone Canyon. Community views include Juneau, Valdez, Ruby and Telegraph Creek, B.C. Photographs were taken by Winter and Pond Co., Case and Draper, J.E. Thwaites, Private Basil Clemons, U.S.G.N.A., Post Photographer at Fort Liscum and others. News clippings of Valdez events are included at the end of the file. The collection is...

Scope and Contents The papers are comprised of typescripts of 164 letters written by Mr. Gile to his family in 1943 while he worked as a bookkeeper and timekeeper in the Yukon for the E. G. Elliot Company, one of several contractors building the Alcan. The letters reflect the routine of being a general worker on the project, but also mirror the concerns of a person far from home in a rugged wilderness during World War II. The papers also include typescripts of his journal, with short daily notations, and 31...

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Views of Nome, Anvil Creek, Unalaska and SS GARONNE; Eskimo and Athapascan portraits.

All of the prints are 6 ½" x 8 ½" in size and are mounted on 11" x 13" mount boards. Four of the views were taken by E.A. Hegg, an early Alaskan photographer.

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Photos of 1964 earthquake in Anchorage taken by Robert Girardot, Air Force photographer stationed on Elmendorf AFB.