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. ...
Title from verso During the last days of the battle of Massacre Bay, several Japanese prisoners were taken. Instead of being killed as the Japanese feared they would be, they were well treated, fed, and provided with candy and cigarettes. Then...
Bertha and Johnson at Christmas, 1955. They were both in Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital in Fort Yukon being treated for TB. They weren't supposed to wear their street...
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...