Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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The George L. Harrington letter was written at the Alaska-Canada boundary near Eagle City, Alaska, July 3, 1909. George Harrington describes his Alaska experience, while working with the Alaska Boundary Survey, and includes some humor current for that time period. The letter was sent to Mrs. W.E. Harrington of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The pages are written on birch bark and should not be handled as they are very fragile. There is a transcription that can be read instead.

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Alaska Boundary Survey: Yukon River, Porcupine River, Valdez, Ruby, Fort Yukon; also, mining activity on the Seward Peninsula, ca. 1909-1917.

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Photographs of the Harris family and Juneau in the 1930s-2012.

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Includes photos of Nome, Talkeetna, Diomede, Juneau, Kotzebue, McKinley, Teller, and other places. Also includes journal of Gladys K. Harris' experiences while photographing in the North.

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The collection depicts the Porcupine Mining Co. in Porcupine, Alaska, including images of the flume, and the Harvey family. Forty-four photographs marked with an "E" preceding the numbers may be Winter and Pond photographs. Two photographs were taken by Case and Draper.

Scope and Contents There are two original series in the collection, Correspondence Received and Other Documents. The correspondence consists of letters received by Hasselborg. It also includes telegrams as well as acknowledgment of gifts of specimens he donated or sold to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California at Berkeley. Other documents include journals kept on hunting trips, weather journals, a brief trapping journal, licenses issued to Hasselborg, newspaper clippings, photographs,...

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Album 1 contains 24, 5 x 8 in. black and white photographs of Fort Wrangell, totem poles, Muir Glacier, Davidson Glacier, Pattison Glacier, Sitka, Juneau, and Treadwell Mine on Douglas Island. The album was photographed and published by F. Jay Haynes and Bro., St. Paul, Minnesota. A hand-written index is bound into the front of the album.

Scope and Contents Views of Juneau, Sitka, Koggiung and other Bristol Bay area Native Villages. Also included are photographs of the Monsen and McGlashan families. Some of the photographs are captioned by the photographer. Photographers represented in the collection include J.E. Thwaites, The Photo Shop Studio, Rinear Photo, and Wyman’s Photo Service.In October of 2006, John Branson, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve historian, made additions and corrections to this finding aid. His notes...

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Scrapbooks kept by the Alaska (Territorial) Department of Health and Welfare and, after 1959, the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. Many concern Mental Health issues.

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Includes diaries of Mary Jane and Fred Healy during their travels in Alaska.