Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

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Eskimo portraits and groups in the Nome area.

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Each page in the volume is a form to be filled in at regular meetings of Arctic Brotherhood Camp Juneau, No. 32, from January 11, 1916 to October 2, 1917. Registration includes: date of meeting and signatures of officers and members in attendance. Volume includes grand camp convention, March 13-16, 1917. Much of the volume contains blank pages.

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Register (September 15, 1919 - May 3, 1927 (?). for guests at the The Bergman Hotel, Juneau, Alaska. Guest information may, but not consistently, include date, name, residence, and room number.

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Registers for guests at the Occidental Hotel, Juneau, Alaska. Guest information includes date, name, residence, and room number. Local business advertisements appear on blotter sheets which are bound in as separators between the registration pages in three of the volumes.

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The collection includes transcripts of proceedings, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents, correspondence, and other documents pertinent to the Reid Bros. vs. ALP/KPC antitrust case and extends over the time period the lawsuit was in progress, 1980-1981. The papers were collected primarily by the donor, as a representative of the Sierra Club.

Content Description In addition to Reid’s 1892 photographs, several photographs by J.F Morse, a member of Reid's 1890 party, are included (nos. 23-27). The collection includes views of Glacier Bay, the surrounding glaciers and mountains, Metlakatla and the Sitka Sound. These early photographs are printed on 5 ½ " x 8" albumen paper mounted on 8"x 10" gilt-edged hardboard. The negatives are either 2 ½ " x 3" or 4" x 5" and were made from the original prints. William O. Fielding, glaciologist,...

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Photocopies of original diary and typescript of diary; also includes biographical information and a Boulder, CO newspaper clipping about the diaries.

Scope and Contents The collection contains papers from the BIA Alaska Native Service, including letters from BIA personnel to herders, contracts with herders, loans to herders, reindeer counts, partnership agreements between herders, contract terminations, purchase orders, receipts for repayment of reindeer loans, and an Individual Indian Accounts Application. Descriptions of reindeer ranges include the following: Stalker Range (Noatak), Commack Range (Noorvik), Skin Range (Selawik), Sheldon Range...

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Aerial photographic slides of Northwest Coastal areas of Washington, British Columbia and Alaska. Photographic prints of aerial views of photos taken for the U.S. Forest Service: Sumdum, Sitka, Taku River, and Juneau.

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The images include the Friends Quaker Missions at Douglas and Kake, government school at Noorvik, school children, government teachers and early Metlakatla views, 1897-1919. Photographers represented in the collection include: Landerkin & Winter (Juneau), Alaska Photo Co. (Douglas), Benjamin A. Haldane (Metlakatla), Thomas Eaton, Jr. (Metlakatla) and Edward deGroff (Sitka).