Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
The notebook is a diary of a young Inupiat school girl named Alva Nashoalook, who relates events in her daily life in Icy Cape. The dates given are June [27], 1912 through April 1, 1913 Subjects include walrus and seal hunting, trapping, reindeer,...
5 pages of hand written notes, taken by James Wickersham during a conversation with Taku chief Aanahalaash, and 2 photographs. Subjects include: Chilkat Blanket weaving,including the origin of the design and the manner of dying the wool; the Swan...
Exhibition: ASM 7-8/70 Descriptive Narrative: A certificate presented by Mathew Murav'ev, Chief Manager of the Russian-American Company, to Matvei Naushketl, a Tlingit chief. The certificate was given along with a silver medal "Soiuznye...
This collection includes colored slides taken in various Alaskan locations including Sitka, Hydaburg, and Nome. Subjects include student life, mining activities, aerial views of towns and villages, and landscapes.
Edward Mulligan Photograph Album contains 80 images (74 photographs and 6 images clipped from publications). Subjects include streetscapes and views of beach mining at Nome, Alaska, in 1899-1900; the revenue cutter "Bear" and its crew in 1896 and...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
The H. C. Barley Photographs consist of more than 200 images of Skagway and vicinity in Alaska as well as nearby parts of northwestern British Columbia and southern Yukon. Barley, the official photographer for the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad,...
Captain Lockert collected photographs and papers during the years he served the Alaska Marine Highway System, continuing his interest in Alaska maritime affairs until his death in 1990. The papers are mostly 12 scrapbooks from 1964-1978 and one box...
The twenty-three page album includes 105 black and white prints and a packet of scraps of paper with Japanese writing on them. Subjects of the photographs include Attu Island scenes including tug boats, cargo ships, steamships and docks, Holtz Bay...
The James Edwin Morrow Photographs consist of 121 color transparencies and slides with images of various places in Alaska taken in the early to mid 1960s and in 1971. Subjects include Chicken, Ninilchik, Kachemak Bay, Homer, Kenai, Seldovia,...
Title from caption. Photograph of two young men identified as Johnnie Fred and Esaias George (standing). Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are Johnnie Fred & Esaias George (standing). Esaias was our favorite boy. He came to school for me...
Two boxes of 3"x 5" typed index cards containing annotated references to events and issues, both broad and personal in scope. For example: Labor history and strikes, Ferry boats, bakeries in town, drunk driving incidents.
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
Remainder of title: and recommending an appropriation for the payment for the territory ceded to the United States, and legislation for the occupation and government of the same. At head of title: 40th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex.Doc....