Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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This postcard collection represents pioneers, transportation, roadhouses, fishing, whaling, glaciers, and Alaska Natives and other subjects in communities and towns in Alaska , Canada, and Russia. Locations and glaciers are listed in alphabetical order.

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The photographs were taken for the New York Times’ coverage of President Warren Harding’s “Voyage of Understanding” to the Far North in late July and early August of 1923. They include his arrival in Ketchikan, in Juneau, Metlakatla, Skagway, Seward, Cantwell, and Valdez. Governor Bone's daughter Marguerite Bone Wilcox donated a collection of photographs also of President Harding's trip to Alaska, PCA 70.

Scope and Contents Alaska Native Rights and History Collection, 1741-1990. Material collected while researching the legal status of Alaska Natives and the history of Natives in Alaska before the Purchase of Alaska in 1867. Included are items on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and precedents; interview notes with Tlingits by Philip Drucker, Bureau of Indian Affairs draft 1948 report of economic survey of Southeast villages by Margaret Landis and Varden Fuller, and Paz Cabello's writings on artifacts...

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Original document with state seal signed by Governor Mike Stepovich and Secretary Waino E. Hendrickson.

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Project Chariot Marine Mammal Study, Cape Thompson, 1960-61. The images were taken while Burton Ostenson was doing field work in connection with Project Chariot. The slides were taken in and around Point Hope and Kivalina, 1960 and 1961.

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Slides and cards from the Pryor family trip to Canada and Alaska in 1968. Brochures and other publications related to Alaska. Personal list of names.

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Miscellaneous (Scientists): William Skinner Cooper, 1884-1978 Publications, biographical material, and references to the work of W.S. Cooper.