Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Yearbook of the Jesse Lee Junior High School with hand-crayoned illustrations and original photographs; includes several photos of Benny Benson.

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Manuscript includes descriptions of various Kuskokwim region villages, Eskimos, mortuary customs, clothing, food, shamans, traders and reference by Brother Hartman and Weinland on starting a mission; includes map of village of Kolmakof.

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The collection includes salmon can labels from fish packing companies in San Francisco, Seattle, Bellingham, and several communities throughout Alaska. It also includes beer labels from brewing companies in Juneau and Fairbanks. Only two dates are noted: 1906 and 1937. The collection also includes photocopies of labels from the collection of Harold Fossum, and 10 slides (duplicates) of salmon labels.

Scope and Contents 33 prints were made from the 115 nitrate negatives received in 1989. The citations are marked with an asterisk. The nitrate negatives are stored in freezers. Photographs are available for all of the images, numbered 116 to 144, donated at a later date. Photograph 115a was added at a later date. Some of the subjects represented include, White Pass and Yukon Railroad scenes, Skagway, Atlin Lake, Atlin Inn, S.S. TUTSHI, Tanana River, riverboats, British Columbia and Alaskan villages, ca....

Scope and Contents Between 1906 and 1908 Louis Lane used his Kodak to take most of the photographs for the postcards in this collection. Lane mailed the postcards from Nome or Seattle to either Mrs. L.L. Lane (wife) or Mrs. C.D. Lane (mother) in San Francisco, California. Most of the cards contain notes on the verso and are signed "L.L.L." or "Lou.” Lane mentions his photography on several cards and notes that B.B. Dobbs (photographer) used a number of his photographs.Images include Eskimo women...

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The collection includes mostly stock images of Fairbanks, Nome, Anchorage, and Juneau; also Eskimos, sled dogs, and a few images of unidentified people. Many of the photographs were collected from commercial photographers, including Winter and Pond Co., Walter Hylen (Fairbanks), Sawyer, B.B. Dobbs, Charles Cann, Julius Fritschen (Anchorage). Others may have been photographed by Mina Lang.

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The collection includes views of Alaskan villages, Tlingit baskets, mining camps, logging, fishing, railroad building and other activities. Tuxecan, Klinkwan, Sitka, Kake and Ketchikan are a few of the locations represented. Langille’s headquarters were at Ketchikan.

Scope and Contents The slides include economic survey statistics of the seven villages in the project, views of these villages, and activities of the people. Included are villages in southeast Alaska in the 1940s; Klawock, Sitka, Hoonah, Metlakatla, and Tyee.Sixty photographs were taken with a Graflex camera to be included in the 1948 report written by Margaret Lantis and Dr. Varden Fuller (economist with the Gianinni Foundation, University of Ca., Berkeley) and 31 were made into slides. The...

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Includes photographs of gold rush activities in the Klondike and views from the communities of Kassan, Ketchikan, Sitka, and Skagway during the same time period.

Scope and Contents This collection contains 2 Albums which hold 79 b&w and color photographs of the Dillingham area, the Scandinavian Cannery, P.A.F. (Pacific American Fisheries) Cannery, and family and friends of Lars Degn Nelson, from the 1920s through the 1950s. Also included is an oral history provided by Harlan Adkison, obituaries for Lars Degn Nelson and his mother Ella Adkison, as well as a book titled: “The Last of Yesterday.” The book was created by Dillingham high school students in 1972. It...