Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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The black and white photographs in this collection show democratic presidential nominee Senator John F. Kennedy delivering speeches at various venues in Anchorage and Palmer, Alaska. Other items included are two newspaper articles from the Anchorage Daily Times describing Senator Kennedy’s visit and internet copies of the speeches he gave at the fairgrounds in Palmer, Alaska, and the Edgewater Motel in Anchorage, Alaska.

Scope and Contents The small collection consists solely of photocopy reproductions of notes and drafts from the Dave Powers personal papers and Pre-Presidential Papers: Senate Files, held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. The reproduced sections of these collections relate only to the 1958 trip to Alaska taken by Senator Kennedy. (An audio recording of Senator Kennedy’s speech at the Gross 20th Century Theatre in Juneau is located at Phonotape 3/3.)Folder 1: Photocopy...

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The collection is comprised of four photograph albums (two partial) and one scrapbook, plus a one page handwritten document and one advertisement printed on pulp, mostly related to the Speel River Project and/or the Alaska Pulp and Paper Company. Localities depicted include Long Lake, Long Creek, Crater Lake, Crater Creek, Speel River, Second River, Tease Creek. Album 3 includes images of Treadwell and the building of a flume and pipeline at Nugget Creek. Photos are circa 1912-1923.

Scope and Contents The Kepner/Crane collections include personal letters, business papers, notebooks, legal papers, newspaper clippings and photographs. The papers cover the period from 1896-1929 with the main part of the collection centering on the 1896-1902 period in Alaska's gold rush communities of Circle City, St. Michael and Nome. Three members of the Kepner family of Chicago came to Alaska. Nora Kepner Crane and her husband John Edward Crane and her brothers Harrison Lynn Kepner and Alfred S. "Budd"...

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These slides document the locations where Kerr worked and reflect his experience in Alaska. Slides are arranged geographically with the exception of nos. 238-251, which are in southeast Alaska. There are images of people, structures, transportation by boat, airplane and dogsled, and village scenes across Alaska. Dates on the slides range from 1948 to 1959.

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91 glass lantern slides, primarily commercial, landscape, Southeast Alaska. Also, Soapy Smith, Whitepass & Yukon Railway. Three articles photocopied from the Salvation Army’s newspaper, “The War Cry.” The articles can be found in a folder in the box containing PCA 454.

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26 Keystone lantern slides. Geo. Unit No. 19B - Alaska, including Map slide No. 25.

Scope and Contents 306 black and white photographic print images and 532 color slide images of Kiana and White Mountain, Juneau, Sitka, Point Hope, Kotzebue and other areas of Alaska from 1949-1959, with the bulk from 1950-1955. In addition, personal postcards and newspaper clippings in the collection provide information about scenery, education in Alaska at the time, TB, and families featured in the images. The collection also includes digital copies of photographs and newspaper clippings featured in the...

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These studio-mounted photographs were taken during a cattle-drive from Skagway to Nome in 1898. John Kill and a crew drove supplies and cattle (sheep?) 1000 miles and sold the supplies and meat at John Kill’s Meat Market in Nome. Some of the views are by Skagway photographers Case and Draper and E.A. Hegg.