Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Four letters written by Yngve Hedner 1929-1935 during his service with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey on the U.S.S. Surveyor.

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This collection contains glass plate negatives from which the positive glass plates were created. The lantern slides would have been created from the second generation positives which are part of this collection. The images on the plates depict ships and views of Nome and Unalaska.

The collection also includes a small number of photograph prints and one nitrate negative. The prints and negative portray people and places that are mostly unidentified.

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Collection includes images of the gold rush era and scenes of the Chilkoot Trail, Chitina, Copper River, Skagway, and the White Pass & Yukon Route, particularly during the gold rush.

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These 35mm color slides were collected by Mr. Heintzleman from the late 1930's to the mid 1950's. The collection includes images of Heintzleman and friends, Sitka, Juneau, Ketchikan, other Southeast Alaska communities, totem poles, Tlingit Indians, scenics and logging and timber industry activities.

Content Description The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings and other articles, images, and memorabilia of Helen Troy Monsen, her father John Weir Troy, her stepmother Ethel Crocker Troy, Helen’s husbands Robert William Bender and Alf Nikolai Monsen and her sister Dorothy Troy Lingo. John Troy was Governor of the Territory of Alaska from 1933-1939. Correspondence between family members focuses on family matters, touching only briefly on local or current events. These letters and...

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Images (slides and photographs) include military life at Seward during World War II, Alaskan landscapes, wildlife, fishing boats and Seward harbor, the Hendersons and acquaintances, Kenai, Matanuska Valley, Wasilla, Seward. The collection contains a leather album of 359 images, 242 color slides and 128 loose photographs and postcards. Also included are miscellaneous military papers and Judson Henderson’s autograph book.

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This collection includes letters, clippings, documents primarily concerning the Copper River region; correspondents include Jeanny Dorea Johnston, who became Henry T. Allen's wife in 1887, and Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles.

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The collection includes residents, activities and a few scenic views of Treadwell and Douglas, Alaska, Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co., Alaska Mexican Gold Mining Co. Some are from commercial photographers including Edward Andrews and Case & Draper. The Henson home, Treadwell dining hall, stamp mills, bunkhouse and store are also included.

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Daily diary of reconnaissance of Port Moller and Herendeen Bays, Alaska Peninsula. The daily entries starting May 7, 1889, record soundings, survey of shoreline with sketches and data, weather conditions, and company activities.

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Collection includes 3 typescript volumes: “The Alaskan Diaries of Orville George Herning of Knik and Wasilla, 1900-1947,” prepared by Louise Potter, 1963-1966. Volume 4 is a typescript for diaries discovered at a later date, for the years 1898, 1899, 1902. Typescript prepared by Louise Potter.

Box 2 contains a name index of persons listed in the diaries, also prepared by Louise Potter.