Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Papers, 1864-1869. Concerned with voyages on the Russian vessel Olga and American Russian Company vessel Cesarewitch; commencing as Superintendent of iceworks on Wood Island, Kodiak and Kenai. Covers period December 6, 1864 to January, 1869.

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Dr. Bernstein's papers include project notes, newspaper clippings, medical reports and correspondence with government and health professionals on the survey's recommendations.

Scope and Contents Manuscript items include letters written by Frank Nichols to his parents in Fall River Mass., and newspaper articles or letters to the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL and FALL RIVER EVENING NEWS in 1898 describe the Rhode Island and Alaska Mining Trading and Transportation Company activity. Various members of the company wrote to the newspapers. The file includes a hand drawn map of the Koowak [Kohuk] River showing a winter trail of the natives and prospecting area. Photographs of mining activity and...

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This collection consists of Governor Riggs’ personal hand written diaries, 1918 through 1924. Significant events discussed in the diaries include the influenza outbreak of 1918, World War I, the sinking of the Princess Sophia, and the development of the Alaska Territorial Library and Museum.

Scope and Contents The papers include two letters written in Skagway from 1918 and 1919, an autograph album from 1887, and two photographs of Helen Wilson. One letter, undated but assumed to be from November 1918, tells about the flu epidemic, the sinking of the Princess Sophia, and the celebration of the Armistice which ended World War I. Folder MS 4-14-6b, containing items from a scrapbook, was later added to this collection. The items include a map titled Routes of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s...

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Papers of James Andrew ("Andy") Pate while working in northern Alaska as a riverboat captain and mail carrier, 1898-1906.

Scope and Contents The papers include one book Foul Play with annotated end pages, one three-ring binder of typescript, one folder of photographs and clippings, one logbook of the steamer James J. Healy on the Yukon River, 1898-1899, and one ledger containing the diary of Arthur George Adams, 1942-1946, an hourly-wage worker in Yakima. The typescript biography of Captain James W. Keen is a series of short accounts of Keen’s seafaring years plus typed copies of letters and notes pertaining to his...

Scope and Contents The collection includes files set up by Bell regarding his work with the State of Alaska as well as a file of oil discoveries and leasing information. The State of Alaska vs. Amerada Hess file includes his deposition in that court case. The rest of the collection includes notes from an oral interview, personal letters to Bell and his wife Gladys as well as clippings collected by Bell. The bulk of the collection is from 1959-1968 when Bell was Director of Lands but includes material up until...

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Papers include two letters to Mrs. Whipple from the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; one medal of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and one bound set of The Alaska Bulletin, published in Sitka in 1875 (on cover: “Presented to Captain S.G. Whipple by Corporal J. W. Huff, Co. “L”, 4th U. S. Artillery, Sitka, Alaska, June 14, 1875”).