Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Six lantern slides, some hand tinted, depicting a cruise on the steamer Queen in Glacier Bay, Alaska.

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Preliminary guide, photographs, and U.S.G.S. microfiche of glacier photos.

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The collection contains images of miners and placer mining, residents and community celebrations in Ruby, Iditarod, Long, and Fairbanks, from about 1913 to 1921. Many of the photographs were taken by photographer, Basil Clemons. No information about the owner of the photographs is available.

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A typed manuscript of a daily journal written by a nameless author who journeyed to the Klondike Goldfields over the White Pass Trail out of Skagway, Alaska, during the Klondike Gold Rush. The diary describes the climate, people, general trail conditions and the weather along the journey.

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Collection includes the diary dated May 16, 1898, from Arcade, New York to Alaska and back (dated August 3, 1899); also temperatures at Rampart City, supplies, notes, and references from New York newspapers.

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Golden Glimpses appeared as a series in the weekly publication, Info-Juno, from 7/20/91 through 5/29/93, when Info-Juno ceased publication.

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Possessory rights of the natives of southeastern Alaska; a detailed analysis of the early and present territory used and occupied by the natives of southeastern Alaska, except the natives of the village of Kake (partially treated), Hydaburg, and Klawock. A report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Walter R. Goldschmidt and Theodore H. Haas. [n.p.] 1946.

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Goldstein family portraits, circa 1890-1933. The Goldstein family was one of the pioneering families of Juneau.

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Kenai area, 1895-1903.

Scope and Contents Materials in the collection include correspondence, maps, photos, clippings, and memorabilia related to the 1964 Alaska (Good Friday) earthquake kept as files of Standard Oil of California, Western Operations, Inc. (SOCAL-WOI).The people sending and receiving messages were (WOI is Western Operations, Inc, the SOCAL company in the western states and Alaska):• William F. Barbat - Chief Geologist, WOI.; San Francisco • W. L. Blair – WOI, San Francisco • Sam Bowlby -...