Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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The Juneau Family photo album, ca. 1920, looks like it belonged to a family that lived in Juneau, Alaska. The photographs depict the Juneau area including Douglas, Thane and the Nugget Creek power station. They also depict Juneau area people and activities. The owner of the album was possibly an electrician or caretaker of the Nugget Creek power station and lived there with his family.

Scope and Contents The collection includes yearbooks containing handbooks, photographs, member lists, publications, and newspaper clippings relating to Juneau Garden Club activities for the years 1946 through 2004, missing years 1973-1974 and 1981. The History of the Garden Club, written by Doreen Merrell and filed in the first volume of Fifty Years of Juneau Gardening Club Yearbooks, 1946-1996, summarizes information documented in the collection. The first 12 boxes house the yearbooks, 1966-2004. Boxes 13-16...

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Juneau Jazz and Classics music festival programs, brochures, flyers, and postcards.

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This collection contains two quitclaim deeds documenting the sale of parcels of real estate owned by Joe Juneau to the Sitka Trading Co. in 1887 and to C.W. Young in 1886.

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This collection contains images of several different Juneau area gold mines that were operating in 1915.

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The collection includes correspondence, testimony, proposals, assessments, member lists, maps, photographs, publications, and other documents relating to the movement to preserve the Brotherhood Bridge area for use as a public park, ca. 1969-1978.

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Research on Juneau public school history including teachers' correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles and speeches; includes lists of teachers, superintendents, and school board members.

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Juneau Ski Club photographs, papers, audiovisual and miscellany donated by several Juneau families. The materials are from the 1920s to the present.

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The collection includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, stock certificates, deeds, leases, and newspaper clippings, dating from the company's incorporation in 1947 through its dissolution in 1955 and includes the ILWU strike, subsequent mill shut-down and ensuing legal proceedings. The collection also includes U.S. Forest Service Tongass National Forest maps, a few photographs and publications.