Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Historical timelines and bibliography relating to tuberculosis and its treatment in Alaska and throughout the world.

Scope and Contents The photographs in this collection were accumulated during the years Louis Schott lived in Alaska. They include views of Alaska Packers Association canneries where Louis Schott worked and many photographs by J.E. Thwaites.Clyda Schott Greely received a number of photographs from J.E. Thwaites, a family friend. Notes from Thwaites are on some of the photographs sent to her, and he also made suggestions to her regarding her own photography efforts.The collection...

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With the exception of the 10 Point Barrow Expedition photographs, the collection contains photos taken during A.W. Greely’s five inspection trips to Alaska, 1900-1905, during the construction of the Washington Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System (WAMCATS) by the Army Signal Corps.

Content Description The photographs, some of which are faded and or blurred, record Mary Greene's daily life as a missionary in Nome and include many of the women and children (identified) with whom she lived and worked. Included are images of Abraham Lincoln, Nome’s chief reindeer herder, Beth Stewart, the Lavinia Wallace Young Mission, the Catholic and Methodist Episcopal churches in Nome, Flora Eroeruk, Jim Sogragok (Sinuk), Edna Murray (registered nurse), the Tattok family, the Beeson family and...

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Barrow and Point Hope, Alaska views and Eskimo culture, 1921-1937, 1964.

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John Greve assembled this collection of postcards and personal photographs to chronicle the building of the Alcan Highway when he was on the scene in 1944. Most of the images show views along the Alcan, with prominent lakes, mountains, and buildings. Also shown are scenes of construction personnel and road-building equipment. There is one set of small commercial photographs of Jasper National Park and one set of color postcards depicting scenes from British Columbia and Southeast Alaska.

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Color slides of Alaskan communities and villages, 1958-1970. Griffin was a Sanitation Aid consultant with the State of Alaska.

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This collection of nitrate negatives was found at a garage sale by the donor. They comprise images of several Alaska places including Juneau, mines at possibly the Kenai Peninsula and/or in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The negatives also include photos of people. There is some legible text on the sides of the negatives. 6 positives were made from the negatives. Photographer is unknown.

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Includes article telling of the Soviet imprisonment of himself and other Alaska Eskimos on Big Diomede, the Russian frontier, when they went to visit Siberian Eskimos, August-September 1948; also includes a letter. written to Gov. Gruening requesting that he find a publisher for the article and requesting aid for his family.

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Signatures of visitors to the museum, 1963-1970, 1980-1981; found in cabin at Taku Harbor, 1981.