Letter dated 1 June 1877 from Sheldon Jackson, Denver, Colo. to J. S. Brown, Fort Wrangel noting Brown's appeal to the Y.M.C.A. had been forwarded to him and seeking further information necessary to establish a mission at Fort Wrangel.
Title taken from image. Buildings labeled in image: Boys' home, girls' home, museum, church, library, carpenter & cooper shop, hospital. Probably photographed by Elbridge W. Merrill.
Display includes a variety of Alaska Native artifacts; totem poles, masks, boats, paddles, and fishing implements. Probably photographed by Elbridge W. Merrill.
Four young men working with shoemakers' equipment, including sewing machine, hammers, clamps. Verso: Photographed by E.W. Merrill, Boston, Massachusetts.
Title taken from image. Sheldon Jackson School Tlingit people Sitka, Alaska. On "Lover's Lane" near the Indian River, Sitka. Verso: Now owned by C.L. Andrews. Image: Opp. Post Office, Portland, Or. Photographer's number 7936.
Title taken from image. Photograph of a student's slate tablet with a handwriting sample and sketches. This photograph may have been made at the request of school administrators for publication, to show the progress that missionaries had made...
Raising the building up onto skids. Showing Eskimos at work; building materials; oil drums. Woman in doorway (Mrs. Spriggs?) and woman and child in right corner of building; man with pipe, left hand corner.