Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Collection documents the activities of the Army Corps of Engineers survey party whose assignment was to survey a possible railroad location between Dunbar and Teller, Alaska during the winter of 1942-43.

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The Lost River Mining Corporation on the Seward Peninsula examined the feasibility of creating a city at Lost River. From 1973 to 1974 various consultants, architects and engineers conducted studies concerning the proposed development with a city council of Lost River conducting business relative to the project. Contains administrative files, correspondence, financial records, consultants' studies, etc.

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Fifteen notebooks containing diary entries and clippings relating to daily life in Juneau between May 16, 1942 and July 7, 1944. Four scrapbooks containing correspondence, special orders and memoranda, clippings and ephemera.

Contains commendation to Colonel Riegle, signed by Frank Pace, Secretary of the Army.

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This collection contains 136 black and white photographs of various sizes, taken in Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory. 4 larger photos look to be hand tinted. The pictures range in date from about 1909 to 1937. Most of the pictures depict the photographer’s mining interests and general scenery.

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Boxes 1 and 2 of this collection contain black and white photographs and postcards of Juneau, Valdez, Nome, and other areas of Alaska during the years 1916 to 1925. Box 3 contains federal publications, letters, brochures, maps, and a Juneau Cook book from the time period 1912 to 1927.

Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of letters, diary entries, biographical data, publications, photographs, and other material concerning the Lutheran missionaries from Finland and others who were in Sitka in the 1840s, this includes a member of the Enckell family. The material provides an account of Russian America with major files on the missionary Uno Cygnaeus; Johan Bartram and Alexander Frankenhaeuser, naval officers in the Russian service; Russian American governor Arvid Adolf...

Scope and Contents The Arthur Steen Lyon collection of 92 photographs contains Alaska scenes from a larger collection of photos Mr. Lyon took while employed as a civil engineer in southeast Alaska and throughout the United States. These images include the Alaska Central Railroad and the Copper River & Northwestern in 1905 1906, surveyors, railroad construction, Copper River Natives, the Copper River, the Fairbanks to Valdez trail (later the Richardson Highway), and southeast Alaska scenics. Captions are...

Scope and Contents Images include mining activity around Kennecott, Copper River, Prince William Sound, Valdez and Kodiak. Included are miners, geologists, mining companies and activity and the Fourth of July celebration in Valdez in 1908.The collection includes excerpts of letters from Levensaler to MacKay written over a period from 1955 to 1971, recounting early mining-related history of Kennecott from his own experience and various sources. Early Alaskan miners and geologists are mentioned in...

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These unidentified portraits, from the Winter & Pond Studios in Juneau include Tlingit men, women and families and other Juneau-area individuals, families, couples and groups.

Scope and Contents U.S. Naval Occupation of Kiska and Surrender of Japanese Forces at Hokkaido. Captain James Simpson MacKinnon, Chief of Staff, 17th Naval District, presented these photographs of the American occupation of Kiska in the Aleutian Islands, 1943, and the surrender of North Pacific Japanese forces at Hokkaido. The views include remains of Japanese installations, construction and occupation of the U.S. Naval Station at Kiska and the Japanese surrender at Hokkaido to Vice Admiral Frank J. Fletcher,...