Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents

All photographs and postcards relate to Rex Beach’s stay at Rampart, Alaska, ca. 1910. Plaque is from the Northern Light, Rex Beach’s steamboat.

Scope and Contents

White Pass and Yukon Railroad; Klondike Gold Rush: S.E. Alaskan Indians. 1898.

Scope and Contents

Four-ring binder containing a series of maps and text.

Scope and Contents

List of 42 signatures with date of arrival in Alaska; includes Wm. L. Distin, D.W. Walker, Thos. Knudsen, J.P. Morgan, J.G. Peterson, and H.S. Sokoloff.

Scope and Contents The Alaska pipeline photographic-history project extended from 1974-1977. The objective of the project was to record on photographic film and on audio tape the history of Alaska during construction of the Alaskan pipeline. The focus was people : those directly involved with the construction and those whose lives were affected significantly by the new pipeline. It was envisioned as a record of the social consequences of the construction of the Alaska pipeline rather than a documentation of...

Scope and Contents

Photographs were probably all taken during the winter of 1897-1898, when Samuel Call sailed on the U. S. Revenue Cutter Service BEAR as part of the Overland Relief Expedition to rescue the 265 whalers whose ships were trapped in the ice near Point Barrow. Several of the images show the BEAR.

Scope and Contents

Fort Gibbon was the detail headquarters and distributing point of the U.S. military telegraph and cable service. Photographs include views of Tanana, Fort Gibbon, Ruby, Gulkana and Valdez. Copy negatives are available for all views. Photocopied documents containing a listing of Pittman’s military service and his Alaska journals are included in a separate folder.

Scope and Contents

Map was surveyed and drawn by G.W. and C.W. Garside. U.S. Dpt. Sur's; map shows 10.7 acres in the cemetery divided into Protestant, Catholic, and Indian sections.

Scope and Contents

News clippings and biographical material from the donor. Typescripts of 12 poems and two stories labeled “Tales of the Kuskokwim.” One poem, “The Pioneer” is handwritten. Additionally, there is a letter from Cone’s great nephew and two photographs of C. Edward Cone.