Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents This collection contains views of Presbyterian Missions in Alaska in the 1920's, Tlingit Indian culture and miscellaneous S.E. Alaska views. The photo of Dr. S. Hall Young (no. 6) was used in a Presbyterian Church periodical, Women and Missions, Nov. 1927, submitted by an Elizabeth M. McKay of Ashtabula, Ohio. The majority of the prints are stamped on verso with “This print made in the Wilkes Dark Rooms, Ashtabula, O[hio].” The collection contains images of Princess Beebee Doho, a Juneau...

Content Description This collection of photographs and manuscript materials document Father Hubbard’s active and productive life as “The Glacier Priest.” The Aleutian Islands, Southeast Alaska, King Island, Kodiak Island, the Brooks Range and northern Alaska are a few of the locations portrayed. Subjects include the Alaska native people and their traditional crafts and activities such as walrus hunting, volcanoes, mountains, plants and animals, and Father Hubbard. Papers and manuscripts (few) are numbered...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, awards, certificates, logbooks, clippings, photos, logs, and vital documents relating to the life and death of Lt. Henry Hubbard. Accompanying these documents and photographs are two media discs; a radio feature on the acquisition of the collection produced at KTOO-FM Juneau, Alaska, and a DVD of footage taken by the Japanese Northern Fleet of the Kiska Island Raid, including an interview with Captain Fred Ramputi who participated in...

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Includes Western Union Telegraph Co. surveys; diary of F.M. Smith, 1865-1867; diary of George R. Adams, 1865-1867.

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Alaska fisheries, canneries, Akutan, Chignik, Unga, Hidden Inlet, Port Vita, Port Wakefield. Most are distant views taken from a ship or plane.

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Includes views of the Kennecott Copper Mine, Copper River Valley and scenics of the Wrangell Mountain region. Prospectors with dog teams and packhorses are also depicted in the collection.

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This collection includes views of Valdez community activities, buildings, transportation companies operating on trail from Valdez to Fairbanks along with scenics of that area. The Anchorage Museum of History and Art and the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library in Fairbanks have files of Hunt's glass plate negatives.

Scope and Contents William E. Hunt collected these photographs while stationed in Alaska. The collection includes images of the Von Detricks, known to the Alaska Natives as “the white fox king.” Subjects also include ships, landscapes, military, mining activities, Unalaska, Selawik, Nome. The collection also includes Hunt's journal describes his tour of duty in the Philippines, California, and Skagway, letters to his parents, news clippings, letterhead from Skagway businesses, programs and other...

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The Earle L. Hunter, Jr. collection contains the 1924 high school diploma of Earle L. Hunter Jr.; a score card for the Million Dollar Golf Course; a photograph of the members of the Juneau Rotary Club taken outside the city library building (Juneau-Douglas City Museum) with names of members on reverse, 1960; Earle Hunter’s 4th grade class picture with names on reverse by W.H. Case.

Scope and Contents The photographs, many with verso notes, show hunters and hunting trophies, including moose and caribou antlers, sheep horns, and bear hides. Verso notes indicate the points scored by several of the trophy antlers and the place they ranked in the record books. Hunters identified in the photographs include Max Harshberger, Kenny Tozer, Ed “Red” Beeman, “Tex” Eubank, Robert Moller, Dave Bell, Rocky Seago, Benny Brousard, Dick Digrajay, L. H. Waltersdorf, and Bob Leighty.The letters...