Alaska Historical Society Collections
The following is a list of collections owned by the Alaska Historical Society and made available through Archives and Special Collections.
NORMAN AND EDNA BASSETT (d. 1957 and 1973). Alaska Trip Photographs; undated, 1927, 1930, 1932. 0.1 cubic feet. hmc-1027-AHS. Alaska trip on the S.S. Dorothy Alexander and the White Pass & Yukon Railroad in 1932.
CHARLES V. BAXTER. Canol Pipeline Papers; undated, 1943-1945. 0.35 cubic feet. hmc-1033-AHS.
William E. Beaty photograph album; 1935. 0.2 cubic feet. hmc-1056-AHS. A tourist visiting Alaska in 1935.
CHARLES ______ . Letters; Undated, 1908. 0.1 cubic feet. hmc-1039-AHS. Miner’s letters to family.
CHARLES E. CLAYPOOL (1861-1944). Photographs; Undated, ca. 1905-1908, 1940. 0.2 cubic feet. hmc-1023-AHS.
Family album of a U. S. Commissioner at Fairbanks.
Conrath photographs; Undated, 1917-1918. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1006-AHS.
Photographs of various places in southeast Alaska.
Ila Copley papers; 1948-1950. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1005-AHS.
Photographs and memorabilia from a woman who lived in Alaska between 1948 and 1950.
Henry Clement Darrah letter and photograph; 1898, 1928. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1119-ahs. Letter written by a gold rush prospector in Alaska.
Ercelle Davidson papers; 1952-1962. 1.0 cubic feet. hmc-1035-ahs. Photographs and home movies taken in Alaska from 1952-1962.
Alma Davis Edington papers; undated, 1938-1942. 0.5 cubic feet. hmc-1372-ahs. Photograph albums and documents of a Sitka resident.
James Ferguson photograph negatives; undated, 1948, 1950. 0.01 cubic feet. hmc-1007-AHS. Photographic negatives taken by a journalist who traveled to Alaska.
Peter L. Ferry family photographs; 1929. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1021-AHS. Family that visited Alaska and the Yukon Territory.
C. Gilpatrick photographs; 1924. 0.01 cubic feet. hmc-1008-ahs. Photographs of the U.S. Army’s Around the World flyers in Sitka.
Gordon Green slides; 1952-1964. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1454-ahs. Slides of a downtown Anchorage resident, including scenes from Valdez, parades, a statehood celebration, and Fur Rendezvous.
BENJAMIN A. GRIER. Scrapbook and Photograph Album; 1911-1952. 0.9 cubic feet. hmc-1036-AHS.
Alaskan miner, businessman and territorial legislator.
Vincent E. Hagen photograph album; 1941-1962. 0.2 cubic feet. hmc-1067-AHS. Photographs taken by a U.S. Army Signal Corps corporal who served in Alaska during World War II.
HAMMON CONSOLIDATED GOLD FIELDS COMPANY. Photographs; 1925. 0.1 cubic feet. hmc-1022-AHS. Photographs of Nome area mining operations.
Interior Alaska photographs; undated. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1004-AHS. Photographs of a possible Yukon River trip.
Jessup family postcards; 1910-1911. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1068-AHS. Correspondence Reverend Jessupp and his wife received from her son, Gust Mihleder, and his fellow soldiers at Fort Gibbons.
Pat Jackson album; 1934. 0.2 cubic feet. hmc-1029-AHS. Travel album of a Portland, Oregon tourist aboard the S. S. Aleutian.
Catherine Jenne slides; 1961-1963, 1966-1969. 0.06 cubic feet. hmc-1406-ahs. Slides depicting sites across Alaska, Seattle, and Yellowstone National Park.
KALIFORNSKY FAMILY. Photographs; Undated, ca. 1910-1914, 1950s, 1980s. 0.1 cubic feet. hmc-1009-AHS. Cook Inlet region Alaska Native family.
Max LaLande photographs; 1943, 1959. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1031-ahs. Photographs of stores owned by the LaLandes in Dutch Harbor and Anchorage.
ROBERT C. LEWIS. World War II Papers and Photographs; Undated, 1941-1943, 1951. 0.45 cubic feet. hmc-1026-AHS. Soldier who served at Fort Raymond in Seward during World War II.
Jane Macdonald diary copies; 1900-1904. 0.25 cubic feet. hmc-1118-ahs. Copies of trip diaries written by a gold prospector in Ophir and Council.
McKeown family photographs; circa. 1910-1920. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1011-AHS. Photographs taken or collected by members of the McKeown Family.
ANN AND ROBERT MOUNTEER. Papers; 1949-1953, 1995. 1.7 cubic feet. hmc-1019-AHS.
Papers, photographs, and film of these Alaskan homesteaders and writers.
Nabesna Mining Corporation records; 1938. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1120-AHS. Shareholder letter and dividend checks for a mining company near Chitina.
CHARLES H. PALDA. Alaska Highway Construction Photograph Album and Home Movies; Undated, 1942-1944. 0.25 cubic feet. hmc-1040-AHS. Senior partner of Okes Construction Company, managing contractor for work done on part of the Alaska Highway.
Photograph Collection; Undated. 0.1 cubic feet. hmc-1004-AHS.
Norma M. Purdy papers; 1951-1962. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1028-AHS. Correspondence, color slides and memorabilia of nurse stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base.
Reminiscence of a 1918 Trip to Alaska; 1972. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1003-AHS.
OTTO SCHALLERER. Photographs; 1929. 0.4 cubic feet. hmc-1013-AHS.
Photographs of Alaskan subjects by a professional photographer in Seward.
Thomas Shemwell slides; 1953. 0.02 cubic feet. HMC-1065-AHS. Images of Elmendorf Air Force Base and Anchorage.
JOHN SHIPMAN. Alaska Earthquake Scrapbook; 1964. 0.2 cubic feet. hmc-1018-AHS.
Scrapbook of Anchorage resident.
John E. Sunder slides; 1969. 0.05 cubic feet. hmc-1041-AHS. Slides of a trip to British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and Alaska.
Alfred P Swineford papers; 1884-1920. 0.2 cubic feet. hmc-1015-AHS. Alaska territorial governor and newspaperman in Southeast Alaska.
ARCHIE TEMPLETON. Letters; 1898, 1906. 0.1 cubic feet. hmc-1016-AHS. Copies of papers of a South Dakotan who came to Alaska during the Gold Rush.
C. M. Thurston photographs; 1906-1920. 0.02 cubic feet. hmc-1017-AHS. Scenes in southeastern and southcentral Alaska.