Becky and Luna are back at it again with another episode about a collection in the Alaska Federal Lands Project! In this episode, they discuss the digitized collection of geologist, Don Grybeck, explore the challenges of learning how to use a controlled vocabulary, and plan the Archives staff’s next road trip.
Missed our blog post and first podcast episode about our project? Read and/or listen more here.
You can also view the digitized and described slides on Alaska’s Digital Archives — more to come! We used the image of the floating resort Luna mentions as the cover photo for this episode.
Finally, to answer one of our in-podcast questions, it looks like Mt. Bradley/Jumbo was first called Mt. Jumbo on a 1904 map. This was likely because the Jumbo mine was at the base of the mountain. It was renamed in 1939 after mining engineer, Frederick Worthen Bradley. Read more here.