Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

This collection contains 46 lantern slides from the 1890s, depicting mining and prospecting activities in Alaska.

Communities and Community activities in South Central and Southeastern Alaska ; Steamboat Inspection Service ; 1924 Flight around the World, ca. 1924-1929

The Roy Jones Manuscript Collection contains newspaper and magazine articles by and about Roy Jones’ air service activities from 1922 to 1923; two typed autobiographical stories written by Jones, one story about his experiences as a pilot titled An Air Epic of Alaska, and one story about fishing practices on an Alaskan halibut schooner in the early 1900’s titled Running the Square. Folder 2 contains 25 Black and white related photographs of Roy Jones and his flying boat.

The photographs and postcards include the Leona K, a fishing boat, the Falcon, a converted purse seiner, a portrait of N. E. "EJ” Jordan, fish drying, and a hunting party boarding a plane in Ward Cove. Jordan’s time in Alaska includes 1917-1972. The donor, Albert E. Helzner, describes “EJ” as a “colorful individual who possibly made a significant contribution to the history of the state of Alaska.”

The papers in this collection include letters to Jessica Suhm Jorgensen from family members (Tecla and Dr. Leslie White), four teaching contracts for teaching in Unalaska 1935-1939, three Alaska teacher’s certificates for years 1933-1936, 1936-1939, 1939-1942. Some of the personal letters are World War II correspondence.

Joseph relates the story of the Aukquon, the Auk tribe of Tlingit Indians, beginning at Stikine River in the Fifteenth Century. He mentions settlements at Auke Bay and Taku Inlet, seal hunting at Young's Bay and the river formed when the Taku Glacier dammed up the river. Joseph includes some family history and lineage.

Includes journal and 2 manuscripts.

Contents: Folder 1. Clarence J. Tjernagel journal, 1906-1909 -- Folder 2. Breezes from Alaska by H.M. Tjornagol [sic] (pastoral missionary, 1871-1940, and uncle of C.J. Tjernagel) -- Folder 3. Frost Among the Eskimos, 1926-1961 by Helen C. Frost (Carlsbad, CA), 1969.

Journal and letters of Col. Charles S. Bulkley during the U.S. Army Telegraph Trail Expedition, 1865-1867, which attempted to survey a route for the Western Union Telegraph Company to lay a line to Europe via Alaska and Siberia. Volume 1 includes map (very fragile).

Journal and letters from the Klondike gold fields and Nome, Alaska, 1896-1901.

Includes photocopy of original, typescript and photographs of drawings; also includes personal comments and descriptions of people, buildings and life in Sitka including the Tlingit culture.