Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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The 131 color and black and white photographs located in this collection reflect a 1971 ceremony and potlatch to raise a totem pole in Kake, Alaska.

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Letter regarding the history of the transfer of the coal house on Japonsky (sic) Island to the U.S. Customs office.

Scope and Contents The Kashevaroff papers contain a diary kept for 3 months in 1923 during a lecture tour in Alaska, correspondence with Professor E.O. Essig (Berkeley), Peter Kostrometinoff, and Archie Shiels. His writings include various Alaska subjects, e.g., biography of Archimandrite Joasaph, a history of the Russian American Fur Company activities, and a version of the Tlingit war from manuscripts and personal contact with Indian elders. Most of the writings are typewritten as is the correspondence. A...

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Father Kashevaroff was appointed curator of the Alaska State Library and Museum from 1920 until his death and wrote many articles on Alaska's history and ethnology. His scrapbook contains information on his writings, awards, correspondence, newspaper clippings and photographs.

The subject guide to the Kashevaroff scrapbook was prepared by Willette Janes for the Alaska Historical Library in 1978.

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Kashaveroff family photographs in Sitka and California, photographs taken on a canoe trip Jack and Sasha made in 1929 from Tacoma to Juneau. Images of fish traps, net fishing, petroglyphs and totems, Tlingit crests, canoe trip.

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This album of photogravure images contains views of Katalla and the mountainous areas northeast of Katalla. A group of approximately 10 men were surveying in the area of Carbon Mountain, Mt. Anne, Cunningham Ridge, Mt. Nichawak and Stillwater Creek. Part of their work was done on McKenzie Coal Tract at the foot of Mt. Anne.

Scope and Contents The images document Captain Kaufman’s life as a pilot in the Air Force during the 1940s in Alaska and Europe. Some of the images may have been taken after he left the service. Images include the 73rd Bombing Squadron leaving Seattle, March 1941, Anchorage, snowshoeing, military aircraft and pilots, airborne infantrymen, “Dottie” (airplane), military life, Annette Island, Atka Island, Shishaldin Volcano, Shishmaref Crater and images from France and Switzerland. Kaufman captioned most of the...

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The photographs in this collection preserve a rare documentation of life in Yakutat at the height of Southeast Alaska’s salmon canning industry. Kayamori photographed buildings in Yakutat, the canneries, Tlingits, funerals of prominent residents, Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood activities and numerous portraits. The collection includes a photograph of the Thunderbird Clan House, no longer in existence, and two photographs of Kayamori.

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The history, beginning with primitive Alaska Eskimo life, includes some “book” facts, personal anecdotes, and stories told by others. It describes life in the northern regions from early times until ca. 1940 when the history was written down.