Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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The Marine Operators’ Licenses Collection contains 9 certificates issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce in Alaska to persons licensed in various marine vessel capacities with years ranging 1908-1943.

Scope and Contents This is a collection of 24 photographs with descriptions showing the terrain along the North Fork of the Koyukuk River north of Wiseman, Alaska. The file includes two maps of the Koyukuk and Hammond River drainages by Robert Marshall and others.Marshall was in the region during the summers of 1929, 1930, and 1931 and the winter of 1930-31, studying tree-growth at its northernmost limit and mapping the area. For an account and additional information, see his "Reconnaissance of...

Scope and Contents The collection includes original diaries of DeLoss Kellogg Martin in the Nushagak region, ca. 1916-1918, a typescript of a holograph log, The Nushagak Story, The Eldorado Journal, and The Log of An Alaskan El Dorado Seeker. It also includes correspondence, maps, clippings, publications, salmon can labels, and images, ca. 1916-1965. Subjects include: Alaska Packers Association, early radio in Alaska, and canneries in the Bristol Bay Region. Places include: Dillingham, Nushagak River Region –...

Scope and Contents The color slides in the first folder of this collection are attributed to both “djm” (D. Joan Martin) and to “JMG” (J. Malcolm Greany); in addition, some photographs may be by Anthony Thomas, possibly those stamped with the label Alaska Color Slides, Box 711, Juneau, Alaska. The photographs in the third folder, showing the therapy program in the Children’s Disease Ward of the Hospital of St. Ann, Juneau, are all by J. Malcolm Greany. Joan Martin’s notes, accompanying the photographs,...

Content Description Letters concern Mary Greene's missionary work with Eskimos including cooking, sewing and teaching at mission orphanage. Includes comment on Eskimo culture, life in Nome, trips to Candle and other nearby villages. Several Eskimo families are discussed by name.Photographs show Nome buildings, Eskimos at Nome and Little Diomede, Eskimo boats, Eskimo burial customs, reindeer, and Mary Greene in various seasonal dress.Clippings: Benny Benson and his Alaska Flag design;...

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Diary.

Scope and Contents The 4½ x 7½" and 7¼ x 9¼" platinum-finished, albumen prints are mounted on gilt-edged gray boards. The album is bound in leather and was published by Mayo and Weed, Chicago-based photographers. Mayo and Weed photographers accompanied a tour to Alaska in 1891 and published the images from that tour, which include Yellowstone Park, geysers, the Grand Canyon, Washington, Victoria and British Columbia, as well as southeast Alaska towns and glaciers. Photographs numbers 48-119 feature...

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These copy prints show Skagway, Whitehorse, White Pass and Yukon Railway, Soapy Smith, Lynn Canal construction at Dyea, Frank Reid’s funeral, the Russian Church at Sitka and Foster Glacier. Most were photographed by Case & Draper and may be found in other photograph collections in the Historical Library.

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Sitka-Kodiak radio, 1941-1942 Transcripts of 18 Interviews Relating To Early Radio Stations in Alaska.

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The papers consist of one medium, three-ring notebook dictionary, arranged alphabetically by English word or terms followed by Inupiaq expression or word, phonetically rendered. Some special and/or related terms are grouped at the end of the volume. One final page is a "List of School Children at Council, 1912". The twenty photographs include views of White Mountain and Council, Alaska, the graduating classes of 1928 and 1929, and Mr. McCollister and other U.S. Government educators.