Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Photos are primarily of Hoonah, Metlakatla and Juneau, Alaska from 1907-1919.

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Correspondence and documents of Governor A. P. Swineford, 1869-1916. Includes appointment by President Grover Cleveland of A. P. Swineford as Governor Alaska; June 17, 1886.

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The collection includes correspondence to and from Governor Parks in his later years. Dora Sweeney wrote some of the letters for Governor Parks. The letters center on his birthdays after age 90. The collection also includes a proclamation by the City and Borough of Juneau for Governor George Parks Day and “State of Birthdays in the Supreme Court for Candle County” from a group of his friends.

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This collection includes photographs of construction, portions needing repairs, and with Governor Egan, of the Governor's Mansion.

Scope and Contents The approximately 7,500 color and black and white postcards in this collection are arranged alphabetically in broad subject categories and fill 121 albums. Subjects include the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Alaskan wildlife, towns and villages, dog teams, gold rush, glaciers, Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Trans-Alaska Pipeline, railroads, ferries, community activities, ships, Alaska Natives, British Columbia and Yukon subjects, lighthouses, logging, northern lights. The collection...

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Mr. Grainger acquired these photographs while working on an Alaskan postcard history. The collection includes 6, paper and/or leather-covered photo albums and 67 loose photographs of Ketchikan and other southeast Alaskan locations. Subjects include street scenes, people, events, planes, ships, fishing, whaling and the Princess Sophia wreck. Photographers include P.C. Coffman, H.E. Hunt, J.E. Worden, Winter & Pond, and others.

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Scenes from Juneau, 1905, 1906, including one elementary school photograph. Group portraits of Juneau Baseball Team, 1906, and football team from the Revenue Cutter Rush. Includes studio portraits from Seattle and Portland studios.

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This collection of photographs by Gray and Hereford depicts the people, the sealing industry, and the Russian Orthodox Church on St. Paul Island in the 1880's.

No other information has been located about these photographers, except that the caption on #13 refers to Hereford as Dr. Hereford (shown in the photograph).

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The Jay Gray collection is a collection of 25 color slides dating from 1948-1959. The photos were taken along the Yukon River, at Yakutat, Barrow and Tanana.

Scope and Contents The collection contains original color slides, dating from J. Malcolm Greany’s 1941 visit to Attu; other photographs include color print copies of the slides, and also black and white prints taken on Attu. In addition, there are field reports, journal entries, and numerous papers relating to Greany’s work for the Fish and Wildlife Service and to his drafts of two articles: “Island Trail to Asia” and “The Last Days of Attu.” Finally, there are photocopies of newspaper articles relating to...