Alaska State Library – Historical Collections

Scope and Contents The 51 photos (approximately 4x5 in size) showing camp life at the Windham Chief Con. G.M. and M. Co. mine, ca. 1918. Most of the photos are captioned. The collection includes a small map showing the location of the Windham Chief Con. G.M. and M. Co. Photographs include mining and mining camp scenes, scenic views of the Inside Passage and miscellaneous Northwest Coast areas, miscellaneous California residential scenes and a map titled, "Map showing location of the Windham Chief Con....

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The Windsor photograph collection includes personal photographs of Colt Island and the Mendenhall Valley in Juneau, Alaska. The collection also contains commercial photograph postcards of several Alaska towns and one postcard showing the Steamship Al-Ki wrecking on rocks.

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Conference was organized by Ted Spencer of Anchorage with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to bring aviation pioneers together. The audio tapes provide accounts of 15 persons involved in Alaska's aviation history as bush pilots, airline owners; also includes American and Japanese accounts of military aviation during World War II in Alaska.

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Includes photographs of Winn family and friends, newspaper clippings including an obituary for Grover C. Winn, and a letter from Burdett Winn in Hurley, NM to Anna Winn in Juneau, dated 3/25/1945.

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The collection contains four publications and a photocopy of a publication from the Winter & Pond Co., dating from 1896 to 1915.

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Photographs, panoramas and portraits recording Alaska's diverse population, the gold rush of the Klondike in 1898, the Juneau gold belt hard rock mining operations (1,200 mining photographs), Tlingit Indians and traditional activities such as potlatch gatherings, dances, and social conditions (350 images), frontier boom towns, ships, and scenic landscapes.

Content Description Lloyd Winter and Percy Pond acquired a lode claim, the California Prospect, at Echo Cove in Berners Bay, north of Juneau in 1897. This photograph album, which was "prepared for, and loaned to, TERRITORIAL DEPARTMENT OF MINES, Juneau, Alaska, March 30, 1939," [note from Pond on inside back cover] documents their work on the claim. Text describing the contents of the photographs has been transcribed in this inventory. Omitted are explanations of economics, conditions, and the...

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The collection contains views of Haines, Wrangell, Warm Springs Bay, Sitka, Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell, Jualin, Skagway, Gypsum, Tenakee Springs; Nulato, Athabascan, Tlingit and Chilkat Indians; Taku and Muir glaciers; ship wrecks of the PRINCESS SOPHIA and AL-KI; and studio portraits. Some photographs may be duplicated in other Winter and Pond collections which include: PCA 87, PCA 21, PCA 316.

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The photographs in this album, published by the Winter and Pond Company in 1934, depict life on the Trail of '98, the famous Klondike Gold Rush Trail from Skagway to Whitehorse over the Chilkoot Trail. The photographs were probably all taken in 1898.

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Includes views of Southeast Alaska, Juneau, Auke Village, Killisnoo, Chilkat, Sitka and Wrangell. Tlingit Indians in ceremonial dress, the Wolf and Bear House in Wrangell, and the Indian Training School in Sitka are also included.