New in the Archives: March 2025

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Another busy month in the Archives, and it’s time for a fresh season of the Archiving AK podcast! Take a listen to the first episode. Becky and Luna explain their new Alaska Federal Lands project and discuss the collection of Alaska Federation of Natives’ first secretary and board member, Joan Elva Corliss.

Now available:

UAA. Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence event videos; 1989-2007. 1.0 cubic feet. We’ve had a very short version of this finding aid for many years, but added an item level listing based on an inventory which had been provided by CAFE.

UAA Celebrates Diversity rally posters; 2025 March 4. EPH-0607

Alaska Academy of Engineering and Science newsletters; 1983 September and December. 0.01 cubic feet. EPH-0608

Anchorage Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Freedom Awards Banquet program; 1972 January 22. 0.01 cubic feet. EPH-0609

KLEF Conversation Continued radio program recording; 2006. 0.01 cubic feet and 253 MB. hmc-1491. Poetry read by Tom Sexton on an Anchorage radio show.

RurAL CAP records; 1965-1985. ~ 2.0 cubic feet. Additional description added to Part 2; more to come!

Anchorage Waterways Council records; 1970-2002. 2.0 cubic feet. hmc-0393. Records of a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring Anchorage’s waterways and wetlands. Addition of one cubic foot.

Alaska Sailing Club newsletter The Sheet; 1978. EPH-0610 0.02 cubic feet.

Marie Hollingsworth papers; 1950-1956. HMC-1489-AHS. 0.2 cubic feet. Letters and photographs from a teacher in Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island. This collection was processed by our intern, Anastasia.

Anchorage Opera Guild records; 1975-2015. HMC-1490. 2 cubic feet. Records of an organization that supported opera and opera appreciation through fundraising, volunteering, education, and social gatherings.

Anchorage Opera programs. EPH-0120. 0.2 cubic feet.

Now online:

212 images from the Don Grybeck papers.

17 images from the Thomas Lloyd photographs.

34 images from the Marie Hollingsworth papers. Thanks to Anastasia for describing these photos!

Classes:

At the tail end of February, Arlene taught a class of 30+ (!) AP Seminar high school students in archival research in collaboration with Taylor Keister, the Humanities subject librarian. The students were working on research papers taking different perspectives on memory, nostalgia, and oral histories. A perfect archives tie-in!

Partnering with Jodi Jacques, subject librarian liaison, and Julie Ann Wrigley, a College of Business and Public Policy professor, Becky taught an introduction to archives session for a Real Estate Law class. They went behind the scenes of the Archives, learned the basics of archival research, and viewed historical documents relating to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and tenant-landlord legislation. Collections viewed included:

Interested in partnering with the Archives to teach a session for your class? Submit a request here, or contact your subject area librarian.

Tours:

On Thursday, April 30, Congressman Nick Begich and Chancellor Parnell came for a tour and to look at some collections. Due to construction in the collections vault we were unable to go into that space, but shared some collections in our research room including:

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