Post-1964 earthquake photograph of Jewel Guard Hall at the Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska. Note the broken windows of this unoccupied building. From verso: "Carrie Ida Pierce Seward, Alaska, Box 516." Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Note on slide reads "Mission Bldgs [buildings], 1950." Buildings line the waterfront. The mission might be the white building with cupola-like feature at the top. There is a boat in the water near the waterfront. ...
Holy Cross Catholic Church and a large dormitory style building can be seen. Several other plain buildings are also visible. It appears a crop of some type is growing in the immediate foreground. Related photographs:...
Shows religious denominations assigned sponsorship of mission schools in Alaska locations, areas of good reindeer pasturage in Alaska, and existing herds of domestic reindeer in eastern Siberia. "To accompany reindeer report by Sheldon Jackson,...
Title from caption. Photograph shows an Indian mission far in the distance along a river. Caption also reads: "No. 15. A. J. Johnson, Official photographer, A. E. C.".
This may be Nenana, which was also called Nenana Indian Mission...
Photograph of the mission house in Kotzebue. A portion of the Friend's Mission (Quaker) church or meeting house can be seen to the left. Verso reads: "This will be your home if you come. We have a ten room manse and well furnished."
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title from donor notes. Full donor notes read: "John Long playing the treadle organ in the mission-house hallway. (On the wall in background, two bishops of Alaska: one the current bishop, the Rt. Rev. William J. Gordon, Jr., and the other his...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "When the small Army Signal Corps detachment pulled out [1954?], they left their generator to the village, and with it the village council successfully provided electricity to all village...
Title from donor notes. Full donor notes read: "Small boys in parkas entertaining themselves in the mission house (before the moving project)." The children are not identified.
Title from indexer. Donor note reads: "The glass storage batteries in the background were part of the antiquated 32-volt electrical system for the house before it was moved." The children are not identified.
Title by indexer. Photograph of two unidentified girls. One holds a hand lens at an angle that appears to be collecting light. A scale is also on the table.
Title from donor notes. Photograph of men preparing one of the church buildings related to the St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Point Hope, Alaska, for moving.
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...