Guide to the Betzi and Lyman Woodman papers
1898-1999
Collection number: HMC-0353.
Creators:
Woodman, Betsy M.
Woodman, Lyman L.
Title: Betzi and Lyman Woodman papers.
Dates: 1898-1999.
Volume of collection: 15.8 cubic feet.
Language of materials: Materials in this collection are in English.
Collection summary: Papers of two Alaskan journalists and free-lance writers.
Biographical note:
Betsy (Betzi) Woodman (née Dekema) was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1913. Writing under the name of Betzi Woodman, she began a career as a free-lance writer and journalist in 1953, and over the course of her career became an authority on the petroleum industry and technical writing. From 1963 to 1988, she was the Alaska correspondent for Reuters International News Service, and also wrote as a stringer for McGraw-Hill and United Press International. A leader in professional organizations, she served as president of the Alaska Press Women from 1970 to 1974, and was recognized as a Woman of Achievement by the National Federation of Press Women in 1982. She was also a charter member of the Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Betzi Woodman died after a traffic accident in Anchorage in 1990.
Lyman L. Woodman was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1913. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1931, and was commissioned as a reserve officer in 1936. He married Betsy Dekema in Providence, Rhode Island in 1937. From 1949 to 1953, he edited the U.S. Air Force publication, Air Force Reserved Forces Review. He first came to Alaska in 1953 as the assistant executive and later executive officer of Elmendorf Air Force Base. After retiring from the Air Force in 1959, he returned to Alaska and served in the following positions in Anchorage: Assistant City Manager of Anchorage (1959-1966); Public Information Officer, U.S. Army, Alaska (1966-1974); and Public Affairs Officer, Alaska District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1974-1980). Woodman was also a long-time member of the Cook Inlet Historical Society, and served as the society’s president in 1969. As a life-long free-lance writer and editor, he wrote primarily on the subject of the military in Alaska. In 1983, he received a grant from the Alaska Historical Society to research and write a three volume military history, Duty Station Northwest: The U.S. Army in Alaska and Western Canada, 1967-1987, which was published in 1996 and 1999. Lyman Woodman died in Anchorage in 1997.
Collection description:
The collection contains the personal papers, writing files, and photographs of Alaskan journalists and free-lance writers, Betzi and Lyman Woodman. Included in the collection are writing drafts, notes, correspondence, subject files related to their various projects and publications, and sound recordings. The photographs and slides contain subjects such as Western Canada and Alaska, the 1964 Alaska earthquake, and travels to Europe and the Middle East. The photographs and slides relate to the Woodmans’ work as journalists and writers, as well as their family, friends, and travel.
Arrangement: The collection is arranged in the following parts and series:
Part 1: Betzi Woodman papers; undated, 1959-1994
Series 1: Personal papers and correspondence; 1959-1994
Series 2: Writing files; 1963-1988
Series 3: Project files; 1964-1990
Series 4: Subject files; undated, 1963-1989
Part 2: Lyman Woodman papers; 1898-1999
Series 1: Biographical papers; 1929-1992
Series 2: Writing files; 1946-1991
Series 3: Duty Station Northwest: The U. S. Army in Alaska and Western Canada, 1967-1987 files; 1898-1999
Series 4: Subject files; circa 1935-1988
Series 5: Audio reels; 1956-1980
Series 6: Audiocassette recordings; 1966-1987
Part 3: Photographs and slides; 1936-1992
Series 1: Alaska and Western Canada photographs; 1936-1979
Series 2: Alaska and Western Canada slides; 1955-1986
Series 3: 1964 Earthquake photographs; 1964-1965
Series 4: Other travel and personal photographs, negatives, and slides; 1960-1992
Series 5: Audio recordings; 1966-1971
Digitized copies: Select photographs have been digitized and can be found on Alaska’s Digital Archives. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact Archives and Special Collections.
Access restrictions: Access to audio recordings may be subject to delays and costs for the digitization of the originals.
Rights note: Archives does not hold copyright to materials in this collection.
Preferred citation: Betzi and Lyman Woodman papers, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.
Separated materials: Publications were removed from the collection and some moved to the Consortium Library’s Rare Books collection. Other materials were removed from the collection and added to the Archive’s ephemera collections. Please ask an archivist for further information.
Acquisition note: The collection was donated to Archives in 1984 by Betzi and Lyman Woodman, additions have been made since by the Woodman family.
Processing information: Some collection arrangement and description was done by Alice Polinka in 1984. This collection was arranged and described by Jeffrey Sinnott in 2008. The guide to the collection was converted to current standard, and series combined, by Veronica Denison in 2015.
Container list:
Part 1: Betzi Woodman papers; 1959-1994. 4.3 cubic feet.
Part 1. Series 1: Personal papers and correspondence; 1959-1994. 0.4 cubic feet.
This series contains the personal papers and correspondence concerning the life and journalism career of Betzi M. Woodman. The series includes biographical articles, certificates, award plaques, and media and convention name tags. Several of the certificates and plaques are awards she received from the Alaska Press Club and the National Federation of Press Women. The series also consists of letters Betzi Woodman sent and received from family members. Correspondents include her sons Kent and Ross, daughter Karen Lew, their spouses, and her grandchildren.
Box/ Folder | Description | Dates |
1/1 | Biographical articles and clippings | undated, 1969-1988 |
1/2 | Awards and honors: certificates and letters | undated, 1963-1987 |
19/1 | Awards and honors: certificates, letters, programs | 1959-1994 |
OS Folder1 | Oversize award certificates | undated, 1976-1988 |
Box 18 | Award Plaques: Commissioner, Anchorage bicentennial team, awarded by Mayor George M. Sullivan; National Federation of Press Women, Woman of Achievement award; Public relations consultant for the Alaska Dental Society, 1977-1983 | 1976, 1982-1983 |
1/3 | Name tags with ribbons: Reuters/Platts Oilgram media tag; National Federation of Press Women delegate tag for convention in Indianapolis | 1979 |
1/4 | Letters sent | undated, 1969-1989 |
1/5 | Letters received | 1986-1989 |
OS Folder 1 | Alaska Centennial Calendar and Anchorage and Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 1967 |
19/2 | Alaska Native Land Claims testimony | undated |
Part 1. Series 2: Writing files; 1963-1988. 0.9 cubic feet.
This series mostly consists of copies of Betzi Woodman’s typed dispatches and correspondence sent to Reuters International News Service as Alaska correspondent from 1963 to 1988, as well as related correspondence and reports.
Box/ Folder | Description | Dates |
1/6-7 | Drafts of news stories | undated, 1962-1982 |
1/8-17 | Reuters dispatches | 1963-1988 |
19/3 | Reuters dispatches | 1964 |
19/4 | Reuters dispatches | 1980-1985 |
1/18 | Reuters stories in other countries: Letter from Senator Bob Bartlett; story drafts, newspaper clippings of stories published in foreign countries, and 4 photographs of Betzi Woodman with Senator Bob Bartlett and other dignitaries at unidentified oil facility | 1963-1969 |
1/19-20 | Reuters correspondence | 1964-1976 |
19/5 | Reuters dispatches and Century Notes column | 1964-1967 |
1/21 | Reuters: Reports and expenses: Reports with lists of stories submitted | 1964-1975 |
1/22 | Contract with the Alaska Purchase Centennial Commission, Department of Economic Development, State of Alaska | 1966 July 1 |
1/23 | Century Notes Weekly Column on the Alaska Purchase Centennial Celebration: Copies of columns sent to editors: issues 4, 41-56, 60-63 | 1966-1967 |
19/6-7 | Century Notes columns | 1966-1967 |
19/8 | Correspondence related to Century Notes column | 1966-1967 |
Part 1. Series 3: Project files; 1964-1990. 1.8 cubic feet.
This series consists of story drafts, notes, articles, correspondence, press releases, and other reference material Betzi Woodman created or collected regarding stories she covered. The projects include the 1964 Alaska earthquake, Amchitka Island underground nuclear tests, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Alaska capital move, Captain Cook Bicentennial, and the Exxon-Valdez oil spill.
Box/ Folder | Description | Dates |
1/24-26 | Alaska earthquake: Story notes, correspondence | undated, 1964 |
1/27-29 | Alaska earthquake: Press releases | 1964-1968 |
2/1 | Alaska earthquake: Casualty lists | 1964 April |
2/2 | Alaska earthquake: Geological information | circa 1964 |
2/3 | Earthquake account compiled by Lyman Woodman: “The 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake: Reactions and Observations” | 1981 January 12 |
2/4 | State of Alaska, Office of the Governor report on state government response to the earthquake in Southcentral Alaska | 1964 May 25 |
2/5 | Alaska earthquake: Other papers used | 1964 |
2/6- 14 | Amchitka Island Underground Nuclear Tests: Story drafts and notes; Project Long Shot press releases, press packet, and information, US Atomic Energy Commission press releases; Milrow Test information, press packets; Project Cannikin press releases, press packet, maps, plans, photographs, story notes, protests | 1965-1973 |
2/15-23 | Trans-Alaska Pipeline project: Correspondence; Engineering News Record dispatches, drafts, story notes, Pipeline chronologies; Alaska Governor press releases; Dispatch drafts assembled from press releases | 1969-1977 |
2/24 | Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (APSC): Interview transcript | 1975, 1977 |
2/25 | APSC: River crossing maps | 1975 |
2/26 | APSC: Press information | undated, 1975-1977 |
2/27-28 | Questionnaires and correspondence on important events in Alaska, findings presented at the Conference on the Future of Alaska | 1970, 1984 |
2/29 | Owens-Coring Fiberglas Corporation: Pipeline insulation press kit | circa 1974 |
2/30 | State of Alaska: Cooperative agreement: Cooperative Agreement between United States Department of the Interior and State of Alaska regarding the Proposed Trans-Alaska Pipeline | 1974 January 7 |
2/31 | State of Alaska: Pipeline cost study: Protest/complaint of the State of Alaska seeking the suspension and investigation of initial rates and tariff provisions for the transportation of petroleum via the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) carriers from Prudhoe, Alaska to Valdez Terminal | 1977 |
2/32 | Oil and gas leases | 1969-1977 |
2/33-34 | Papers, statements, and testimony for TAPS | undated, 1969-1977 |
2/35 | Press releases from various organizations and institutions relating to TAPS | undated, 1969-1978 |
2/36 | Speak Up Alaska brochure; Alaska Pipeline Education Committee, Inc. report booklet, flier, and letters | undated, 1973 |
2/37 | Tanker system impact information | undated, 1971 |
2/38 | Welding problems and quality assurance audit: Story notes, audit papers, reports, and statements | undated, 1970-1976 |
3/1 | Welding litigation: Complaint and exhibits | 1976 |
3/2 | Women on the pipeline: Story notes, letters | 1975 |
3/3 | Yukon River Bridge | 1972-1975 |
3/4 | Other papers regarding project on TAPS | undated, 1970-1977 |
3/5 | Alaska Capital move impact | 1976-1978 |
3/6 | Capital move: Social and governmental aspects | undated, 1977 |
3/7 | “Who Did It” (people involved in capital move): Profiles and lists | undated |
3/8 | Capital Site Planning Commission drafts of planning process documents and related information | undated, 1977-1978 |
3/9 | Other papers regarding capital move | undated, 1977 |
3/10-26 | Captain Cook Bicentennial an Whitby, England Sister-Cities project: Anchorage Philatelic Society pictorial cancellation; correspondence; Captain Cook Ball story draft, invitations, programs; Captain Cook Bicentenary and Resolution Park Steering Committees; The Endeavor Project: story draft, correspondence, press release; Garden Club Show; Girl Scout Jamboree; Lecture series; Mayor’s office press release, proclamation; Cape Newenham Air Force Station visit; Press releases; Sister Cities Week speech, invitation; Statue story notes, invitation; Brochures, memorabilia | 1969-1983 |
19/9 | Captain Cook Bicentennial: The Endeavour Project brochures | undated |
OS Folder 1 | Color map of Plymouth Sound, England | 1975 |
3/27-34 | Exxon Valdez Oil Spill project: Letters, invitations, announcements, exhibits; Newsletters; Press releases from various organizations and institutions; Ted Stevens and Alaska Governor press releases | 1989-1990 |
Part 1. Series 4: Subject files; undated, 1963-1989. 1.7 cubic feet.
This series consists of Betzi Woodman’s files related to stories she covered in Alaska. A majority of the files in this series contain press releases, Betzi’s story notes and drafts, correspondence, and newsletters.
Box/ Folder | Description | Dates |
3/35 | Adak | 1964-1970 |
3/36 | Aleutians: Press releases on World War II Aleutian campaign 25th anniversary and article on debris cleanup | 1967-1970 |
3/37 | Anaktuvuk Pass | undated |
3/38 | Anchorage: Airports: FAA press releases | 1964, 1976-1977 |
3/39 | Anchorage: Firefighters Association: Story drafts and notes, letters, and convention program | 1972-1973 |
3/40 | Anchorage: Growth: City planning documents, studies, reports and newsletters | 1973-1976 |
3/41 | Anchorage: Historical: Story draft, articles, newsletters, and programs, “Golden Celebration of Anchorage,” City golden anniversary celebration program | undated, 1964-1970 |
3/42 | Anchorage: Port of Anchorage: “Major Waterfront Developments Planned in Anchorage” “Brief of Port of Anchorage Harbor, Dock History and Present Status” | 1958, 1978-1981 |
3/43 | Attu | 1977, 1981 |
3/44 | Barrow: Includes “Barrow Mother’s Club to Benefit from ANG – Special Forces Charity Ball,” Introduction to KFQD radio tape prepared by Betzi Woodman | 1965-1980 |
3/45 | Bethel: Native Housing | 1968-1969 |
3/46 | Bethel: Native Public Services: Story notes, Village Health Aide Program paper and City of Bethel booklet, Bethel Health Letter newsletters by Bethel Hospital staff for Village Medical Aides, F. Jay Keefer, M. D. “The Village Health Aide Program: A New Approach Toward Adequate Medical Practice in a Remote Section of Alaska” | undated, 1967-1968 |
3/47 | Bethel: Pre-Maternal Home: Story draft, notes, memoranda, report, and clipping of newspaper article, photographs, Statistical report for the first six months of operation of Kingalret Witaviat | 1967-1968 |
3/48 | Bethel: Sports and Culture | 1969 |
3/49 | Chalkyitsik | 1966-1967 |
3/50 | Chenega: Earthquake: Notes, press release, memorandum, lists of casualties, survivors and losses, and newspaper articles | 1964 |
3/51 | Cordova | 1963-1967, 1983 |
3/52 | Eagle | undated, 1972-1979 |
3/53 | Fairbanks | 1965-1979 |
3/54 | Fort Yukon | undated, 1964-1969 |
3/55 | Gambell | undated, 1967, 1972 |
3/56 | Homer | undated, 1964-1974 |
3/57 | Hope: Story notes on Carl and Emma Clark | undated |
3/58 | Hyder: “International Celebration Features Historic Storehouse” story draft | 1976 |
3/59 | Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada: Inuvik Curling Club Roster, and price list for garments sold by Aklavik Fur Garment Co-operative, Ltd | 1963 |
3/60 | Kachemak Bay: Press releases on oil leases | 1974, 1977 |
3/61 | Kake: Totem Potlach | 1971 |
3/62 | Katmai: Primarily concerning astronaut astrogeological training at Katmai | 1965-1969 |
3/63 | Kenai | undated |
3/64 | Ketchikan | undated, 1975-1976 |
3/65 | Knik: Story draft, notes | undated, 1967 |
3/66 | Kodiak | undated, 1964-1980 |
3/67 | Kotzebue | 1967 |
3/68 | Little Diomede | undated 1968, 1973 |
3/69 | Matanuska Valley | undated, 1965 |
3/70 | Mount McKinley (Denali): Climbing | 1966-1973 |
3/71 | Mount McKinley: Domed City | 1977-1978 |
19/10 | Nenana Ice Classic | undated, 1966-1969 |
3/72 | Nome: Story notes, letters, KNOM Catholic radio mission station information, press releases, newsletters, brochures | 1966-1980 |
3/73 | Nome: Serum Run | 1969 |
3/74 | North Pole | undated, 1964, 1979 |
3/75 | North Slope Borough: Home Rule, schooling | 1976-1983 |
3/76 | Petersburg: Little Norway Festival | 1977 |
19/11 | Point Hope | 1964 |
4/1 | Portage and Whittier | undated, 1964, 1966 |
19/12 | St. Mary’s | 1967-1971 |
4/2 | St. Mary’s Mission | undated, 1966 |
4/3 | St. Paul and Pribilof Islands | undated, 1965-1968, 1971, 1983 |
4/4 | Savoonga, St. Lawrence Island | undated, 1971, 1972 |
4/5 | Seldovia: Story notes, press releases, and articles on rehabilitation of town after earthquake | 1964, 1966 |
4/6 | Seward: Resurrection Bay Historical Society Newsletter, press releases regarding to the 1964 earthquake | undated, 1964-1978 |
4/7 | Shemya Island | 1973-1980 |
4/8 | Sitka: Radio report scripts, notes, correspondence, press releases, newsletters, Alaska Day program and related materials, and booklets and brochures | 1965-1969 |
4/9 | Sitka: St. Michael’s Cathedral Rebuilding | 1966 |
4/10 | Skagway and Dyea | undated 1967-1980 |
4/11 | Tanana: “Alaskan Indians Revive Traditional ‘Nuchalawoya’ Gathering, June 3, 1964” | 1964 |
19/13 | Tanana (Tanacross) | undated |
19/14 | Valdez | undated, 1971-1980 |
4/12 | Valdez: Historical | undated, 1964-1975 |
19/15 | Wales | undated |
4/13 | Wrangell | 1970, 1981 |
4/14 | Alaska Eagle (yacht) | circa 1981 |
4/15 | Alaskan Foods: Recipes: Story notes, potlatch and birch sap harvesting information, recipes, and wild game dinner menu | undated, 1964 |
4/16 | Archaeology (primarily Amchitka Island) | undated, 1967-1975 |
4/17 | Arctic Ice | 1967-1972 |
4/18 | Arctic Research (Naval Arctic Research Laboratory, Barrow) | 1964-1981 |
4/19 | Art | 1968, 1977-1978 |
4/20 | Artists | undated, 1964-1981 |
4/21 | Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights): University of Alaska press releases and information | 1965-1976 |
4/22 | Aviation | 1968-1983 |
4/23 | Berries | 1962 |
4/24 | Centennial Train Committee: Century Notes issue, press release, letters, stationery, committee meeting minutes, Mooser Gooser train tickets, certificates, programs, and song lyrics | 1965-1967 |
19/16 | Christmas | 1964-1973 |
4/25 | Coast Guard | undated, 1972 |
4/26 | Coast Guard: History | undated, 1967-1977 |
4/27 | Coast Guard: General Information, Vessel Traffic System | undated, 1968-1978 |
19/37-38 | Coast Guard: USCGC Polar Sea | undated, 1979 |
4/28 | Cold Weather and Arctic Biology: Program for the 22nd Alaska Science Conference, College, dedication program for the Laurence Irving Building for Bioscience at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks | undated, 1964-1978 |
4/29 | Communications Technology | 1989 |
4/30 | Dog Mushing (Sled Dog Racing): Anchorage Winter Carnival, dog mushing coarse at UAA, Nome Serum Run | undated, 1969-1975 |
4/31 | Earthquake: Soil Stabilization | 1964-1967 |
4/32 | Neva Egan: Correspondence, autobiographical essay | 1962-1963 |
19/17-23 | Events by month: Sitka Summer Music Festival, Mount Marathon Race, Cry of the Wild Ram, Alaska Festival of Music, Equinox Marathon, Alaska Day | undated, 1964-1981 |
4/33 | Health and Welfare | undated, 1964-1968 |
4/34 | Historical and Fine Arts Museum (Anchorage) | undated, 1971, 1978 |
4/35 | Gold Rush Historical Park | undated, 1976-1977 |
4/36 | History: General | 1966-1978 |
4/37 | Ice: Northwest Passage: Letters, press releases and press photograph and maps concerning the icebreaking tanker, SS Manhattan | 1969-1970 |
4/38 | Ice Forecasting | 1966-1972 |
4/39 | Ice Island T-3 (University of Alaska arctic research laboratory on Fletcher’s Ice Island, 1,000 miles north of Barrow): Story notes, travel authorization letter, press releases, scientific paper | 1969-1970 |
4/40 | Ice Island ARLIS II (Arctic Research Laboratory Ice Station II) | undated 1961-1968 |
4/41 | Icon Preservation Task Force | 1986-1989 |
4/42 | Iditarod Trail | undated, 1979 |
4/43 | Japanese relations | 1972-1974 |
4/44 | Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge (China Poot Bay): Story notes, correspondence, newspaper article, and brochures, booklets, maps, and schedules for lodge owned and operated by Diane and Mike McBride | 1974-1979 |
4/45 | Kirghiz Herdsmen | 1981-1982 |
4/46 | Media | 1968-1976 |
4/47 | Thomas Corwin Mendenhall | undated |
4/48 | Music: People: People profiled: Arthur and Eleanor Braendels, Ruth Briggs, Kathryn Chenoweth, Lorene Harrison, Ruth Hurst, Jean-Paul and Christiane Billaud, and Gary Smart | 1964-1965, 1971 |
4/49 | Native Issues: Letters, meeting minutes and information concerning Alaska Native land claims and other matters, Tanana Chiefs Conference Annual Meeting minutes, highlights of John Borbridge, Jr., President and General Manager of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska, presentation before the Alaska Press Club | 1966-1986 |
4/50 | Native Corporations: Story drafts on Calista and Bristol Bay Native Corporations | 1983 |
4/51 | Northwest Passage Trip: Story draft, letters, and map concerning trip between Nova Scotia and Alaska on the Society Expedition’s ship World Discoverer | 1985 |
19/24 | Norton Sound Health Corporation: correspondence, notes, drafts | undated, 1972-1973 |
4/52 | Old Believers: Story drafts, notes, letters, correspondence and information concerning the naturalization of Russian religious colony on the Kenai Peninsula, correspondence between Betzi Woodman and General Benjamin B. Talley and wife Manila Talley | 1966-1975 |
4/53 | Publications: Letters | 1966-1969 |
4/54 | Rampart Dam: Alaska Conservation Society bulletins, press releases, letters, and report | 1960-1964, 1971 |
4/55 | Whales | undated |
Part 2: Lyman Woodman papers; dates. 5.2 cubic feet.
Part 2. Series 1: Biographical materials; 1929-1992. 0.3 cubic feet.
This series contains the resumes, certificates, plaques and awards of Lyman Woodman. The series also includes material collected by Woodman which relates to his military career.
Box/ Folder | Description | Dates |
5/1 | Biographical sketches | 1976-1992 |
5/2 | Resumes | 1959-1980 |
5/3 | Papers concerning career and retirement | undated, 1948-1980 |
5/4 | Certificates and honors | 1929-1983 |
Box 18 | Plaque awarded to Lyman L. Woodman, Assistant City Manager of Anchorage, by the City of Anchorage, Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, Fort Richardson, and Elmendorf Air Force Base Assistant City Manager, for his service on the Military-Civilian Community Council | 1966 May 31 |
5/5 | Biographical articles and notes: Japanese invasion Philippines currency notes (one centavo and one hundred pesos) and explanatory note; Notes for trip to England, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden including stops in Oslo, Copenhagen, Malmo, London, Salisbury, Newcastle, Scarborough, and Whitby | 1945, 1982 |
5/6 | Woodman Family genealogical chart | undated |
OS Folder 2 | Sketches: St. Michael’s Redoubt; Fort Yukon in June, 1867 | undated |
OS Folder 2 | Drawing: Douglas C-124 :Globemaster II”; 5039th Air Base Wing shield | undated |
OS Folder 2 | Royal Air Force (Royal Air Force) “Once is too often” boards: “I’m afraid this is going to cure me completely of thinking I know better than my compass!”; “I’m afraid this is going to cure me completely of forgetting to find out what all these gadgets in the cockpit are for!” | circa 1942 |
Part 2. Series 2: Writing files; 1946-1991. 0.4 cubic feet.
This series contains papers relating to the writings of Lyman Woodman, including unpublished writings, article drafts, texts of speeches, materials for slide shows and other presentations, as well as correspondence.
Box/ Folder | Description | Dates |
5/7 | Published writings lists | 1980-1986 |
5/8 | Manuscript drafts of published articles, includes related correspondence and notes: “A Government of, by, and for the Veterans”; “Japanese Soldiers Rest in Pretty Alaskan Cemetery”; “Explorers, Builders, Defenders: A Century of Military Service has Affected Most of Alaska”; “Pilgrimage to the Aleutians”; “Building the Alaska Highway: A Saga of the Northland”; “Map-Wise, Alaska is Quite Feminine”; “Alaska” or “Alaska Comes of Age”; “Cook’s Exploration Commemorated at Remote Air Force Site”; “A One-Stop Shop with Restricted Clientele”; “The Wright Way has Many Wrinkles”; “Ficheing for Facts”; “Alaska on Alert 1942”; “The Barrow Expedition a Century Ago” | 1947-1984 |
5/9 | Correspondence concerning published articles | 1946-1982 |
5/10 | Manuscript drafts of unpublished articles, includes correspondence: “Spring has Sprung … Its Dig-Out Time”; “Rehab Earthquake Area Open to Buyers”; “Britishers Welcomed Warmly in Alaska”; “Alaska Attracts Military Retirees”; “The Boy Who Helped Expand a Nation”; “A Few Facts about Alaska”; “Private Mounts” or “The Sergeant Who Bet on Horses”; “Aircrews and Explorers Drew Army Grog”; “Wartime Debris Cleanup is Costly”; “Does Old Russian Theory Apply to Mount Saint Helens?”; “Map-Wise, Alaska is Quite Feminine!”; “Sitka Scene: Fun and Pageantry”; “Military Contributions to the Administration, Exploration, and Development of Alaska”; “Grave 22, Plot A K. Roosevelt”; “Ficheing at the University”; “Flag-Topped Hill of Memories”; “The Last Frontier”; “Many Wartime Railroaders were Soldiers”; “Prudhoe Bay is Pingo Country”; “Rank-Happy Ghost Outfit Active in Alaska”; “What’s in a Name is Everything Imaginable”; “What, No Beans?”; “Virginia Talley Lives Two Roles” | 1968-1984 |
5/11 | Speeches and presentations: Speech texts and notes, related correspondence, programs, newspaper articles, and press releases: Speech on the military view of the Public Information Officer before Alaska Press Women; Media Self-examination Workshop; “About Billy Mitchell and His Story, ‘The Opening of Alaska'” speech before the Cook Inlet Historical Society meeting; “General Billy Mitchell and Alaska’s First Telegraph” speech before a brownbag luncheon at the Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum; “The RCAF in Alaska during World War II” speech before Polar Flight 10, Order of Daedalians, Elmendorf Force Base; “U.S. Army Exploration in Alaska” speech before an Anchorage Community College class; Speech on Corps of Engineers activities in Alaska before the Fort Richardson Officer’s Club at a brunch for General Benjamin B. Talley; Speech on the U. S. Army in Alaska before the Colonel J. Mitchell Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; “About the WAMCATS”; Presentation on military photographs | 1968-1990 |
5/12 | Slide show presentations on the first 100 years of the U.S. Army in Alaska: Slide lists, notes, handouts, and 55 slides | 1967-1977 |
5/13 | Slides show presentations on the construction of the Alaska Highway in 1942 (text only) | 1977-1979 |
5/14 | Slides for the Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF in Alaska speech | circa 1983 |
5/15 | Notes for slide and movie presentation on Alaska | circa 1970-1979 |
5/16 | “The Old Curiosity Cache” series of 26 historical anecdotes published in the Greatlander Shopping News: “Princess Tome, Matriarch of Yakutat” (1896); “Nome’s Unusual Ocean Shipment of 1934” (1934); “Reindeer from Siberia on the Revenue Steamer Bear” (1891); “Sitka’s Whiskey Post Office Boxes” (1868); “First Masonry Building in Alaska Portland Canal” (1896); “Dr. Brooke’s Theory on Rheumatism in Sitka”; “Fort St. Michael’s Huge Post with a Saloon Problem” (1897); “Kodiak’s Army Sawmills Produced Wartime Lumber” (19421943); “Super Wildlife Conservator … a Signal Corps Private” (Edward M. Nelson, 1876); “First Wireless in Alaska Crossed Norton Sound” (1903); “Best Description of the Aurora” (1899); “Alaska Place Names; Some Suitable, Some Weird” (1788 ); “Peril Strait Scene of Many Deaths” (1799); “Dr. Grewingk’s Theory on Our Chain of Volcanoes” (1850); “Collins’ Overland Telegraph Line to Russia” (1866); “Alaskan Ice Sold to San Francisco Merchants” (1852-1859); “Impressment of Alaskan Workers, and the Seattle Labor Camp” (1942-1943); “Chilkoot Barracks and Its Pathetic Tugboat” (1939); “Sitka’s Marine Beacon… a Russian Retread” (1868); “Quonsets, Pacific Huts, and Other World War II Structures” (19421945); “Metal I. D Tags Stimulated Education of Indian Children” (1881); “Special Tour: Government Workers Only” (1930); “Wrangel Island … a Land We Nearly Possessed” (1881); “The Proposed Secession of Valdez to Canada” (1905); “Wartime Puzzle: Railroad or Highway to Alaska?” (1942-1943); “Russia’s Take: Furs and Yassak” (1743-1799) | 1972-1974 |
5/17 | Engineer storehouse in Hyder, Alaska, first masonry structure built in Alaska, 1896: Article drafts | 1976, 1980 |
5/18 | Engineer storehouse, 1896: Correspondence | 1975-1985 |
5/19 | Engineer storehouse, 1896: Research materials | 1975-1985 |
5/20 | Army harbor boat, C.V. Donaldson of Nome: Article draft, correspondence, notes, research materials, photographs, and slides | 1975-1986 |
5/21 | Lieutenant Castner’s Alaskan Exploration, 1898: A Journey of Hardship and Suffering: Book summaries drafts, grant application, correspondence, review list, and review articles | 1984 |
5/22 | German POW Camp at Excursion Inlet during World War II: Speech draft, symposium program, correspondence, research materials, photographs, and slides | 1981-1991 |
5/23 | Alaskana Magazine: List of submitted articles and correspondence | 1978-1980 |
5/24 | Freelance writing: Correspondence, notes, lists, and untitled drafts | 1979-1988 |
OS Folder 2 | “History of Alaska Woven in Story of Might Yukong” illustration boards | 1975 |
Part 2. Series 3: Duty Station Northwest: The U.S. Army in Alaska and Western Canada, 1967-1987 files; 1898-1999. 0.65 cubic feet.
This series contains correspondence, documents, photographs, maps and figures which were used by Lyman Woodman for his publication, Duty Station Northwest: The U.S. Army in Alaska and Western Canada, 1967-1987.
Box/ Folder | Description | Dates |
5/25-26 | Correspondence | 1980-1999 |
5/27 | Publication documents: Agreement with the Alaska Historical Commission; Synopses, tables of contents, illustrations lists, and index; Contract and correspondence concerning writing the history of the Alaska District, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers | 1971-1996 |
5/28 | Sources of research, style sheets, and abbreviations | 1980-1993 |
5/29 | Expenses | 1980-1989 |
5/30-33 | Volume One: Maps, number 17; figures, numbers 19, 1113; Photographs, numbers 150, 51103 | 1996 |
5/34-36 | Volume Two: Maps and figures; Photographs number 155, 56109 | 1996 |
5/37-39 | Volume Three: Maps and figures; Photographs number 150, 5173 | 1996 |
OS Folder 1 | Map: Trails of early Army expeditions | undated |
6/1 | Photographs: Adak Island; Alaska Highway construction; Aleutians; Amchitka Island; Anchorage and Cook Inlet; Attu Island | undated, 1917-1981 |
6/2 | Photographs: Canadian Oil Pipeline (CANOL); Dutch Harbor and Unalaska; Eagle and Fort Egbert; Fairbanks: Fort Wainwright and Ladd Field; Fort Gibbon and Tanana; Fort Richardson; Fort St. Michael; Fort Wrangell; Haines: Fort Seward and Chilkoot Barracks; Kiska Island; Kodiak Island and Afognak Island; Nenana; Nome and Fort Davis; St. George Island; Seward and Fort Raymond; Shemya Island; Sitka; Umnak Island and Fort Glenn; Valdez and Fort Liscum; White Pass and Yukon Route Railway; Yakutat | 1882-1985 |
6/3 | Photographs: People and portraits: People pictured include: Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, Col. Thomas M. Anderson, Lt. Walter C. Babcock, Ingrid Bergman, Lt. Gen. Simon B. Buckner, Jr., Col. James D. Bush, Jr., Brig. Gen. William O. Butler, Col. William O. Eareckson, Gov. William A. Egan, Pres. Dwight Eisenhower, Cpt. C. S. Farnsworth, Gen. Adolfus W. Greely, Gov. Ernest Gruening, Brig. Gen. Eugene M. Landrum, Maj. Marvin R. “Muktuk” Marston, Lt. Frederick Mears, Brig. Gen. J. J. Morrow, and Maj. Benjamin B. Talley | 1898-1976 |
6/4 | Photographs: Ships: Ships pictured include: U. S. Revenue Cutter Bear, USAT Buford, USAT Burnside, USAT Crook, USAT Dellwood, USAT Albert J. Myer, and USAT Rosecrans | undated, 1948 |
6/5 | Photographs: Various subjects and locations | 1899-1987 |
6/6 | Xerox copies of photographs considered for use | undated |
Part 2. Series 4: Subject files; circa 1935-1988. 2.55 cubic feet.
This series contains subject files relating to sources gathered by Lyman Woodman for use in Duty Station Northwest: The U.S. Army in Alaska and Western Canada, 1967-1987. Folders 6/7 to 6/37 correspond with the index cards in the red subject file box (Box 16), and folders 6/38 to 7/18 correspond with the index cards in the black subject file box (Box 17).
Box/ Folder | Description |
Box 16 | Index card file to red subject files |
6/7 | A: Abandonment of military posts; Alaska Commercial Company; Alaska Defense Command; Lt. Col. H.H. Arnold; pre-World War II artillery. |
6/8 | Alaska Engineering Commission. |
6/9 | Alaska: General Information. |
6/10 | Alaska Railroad |
6/11 | Anchorage: Notes by Charles S. Harvard |
6/12 | Alaska-Canadian boundary; Barrow; Charles S. Bulkley |
6/13 | Background. |
6/14 | Biographies/Bibliographies. |
6/15 | C: Subjects include Circle City; communications; and customs activities; Patricia Oakes “Teaching Conditions at Circle City: 1896-1966” |
6/16 | D: Subjects include Fort Davis; defense; Dyea |
6/17 | E: Subjects include Eagle; Fort Egbert; Ben Eielson; Exploration; Expeditions William Schneider. “Lieutenant Herron, 1899: In Historical and Cultural Perspective” |
6/18 | F: Subjects include Army harbor boat Capt. James Fornance (Chilkat Barracks); Fort Get There; Fort Wrangel |
6/19 | G: Subjects include Galena; Fort Gibbon; Government Hill; General orders; Governor of Alaska; and Fort Greely, Donna Lane “Government Hill Historic Resource Survey” |
6/20 | H: Subjects include Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn; Ahapius Honcharenko (Alaska Herald-Svoboda newspaper); Captain Ross G. Hoyt; Hudson’s Bay Company |
6/21 | I.: Subjects include Indians and Innuits |
6/22 | K: Subjects include Fort Kenay; Kodiak Cemetery; Fort Kodiak |
6/23 | L: Subjects include Ladd Field; Laundresses; Fort Liscum; Liquor sales |
6/24 | M: Subjects include U.S. Marines; Fort McGilvray; Frederick Mears; Meteorology; Military reservations; Minors; General William L. “Billy” Mitchell; Mount Billy Mitchell |
6/25 | Maps |
6/26 | Other files |
6/27 | N: Subjects include National Guard and Nome |
6/28 | O: Subjects include ordnance and organizations (Alaska posts) |
6/29 | P: Subjects include painkiller; Panama Canal; Pay and allowances; Ivan Petroff; Photographs; Place names; Post exchanges |
6/30 | R: Subjects include radar; Railroads; Camp Rampart; Colonel Charles W. Raymond; Fort Raymond; Reindeer; Relief Expedition; Retirement; Round-the-world flights (1924); Russian-American Company; Russian-American Telegraph |
6/31 | Fort Richardson |
6/32 | S: Subjects include Fort St. Michael; St. Paul Island; Seventh Infantry; Signal Corps; Sitka; Camp Skagway; Lieutenant Joseph A. Sladen; Soapy Smith; statistics; James Gordon Steese; SS John L. Stephens (sidewheel steamer); Captain St. Clair Streett; Susitna River |
6/33 | Sitka National Cemetery |
6/34 | T: Subjects include transfer ceremony at Sitka (1867); Transportation; 24th Infantry; 32nd Infantry |
6/35 | U and V: Subjects include United States Guards and Valdez |
6/36 | W: Subjects include Whittier; Judge James Wickersham; Captain Charles O. Wood; Words and phrases; Fort Wrangell |
6/37 | Y: Subjects include Yakutat; William Yanert (Purgatory, Alaska); Yukon River |
Box 17 | Index card file to red subject files |
6/38 | A: Subjects include Air Corps/Air Force; Air Transport Command; Alaska Test Expedition (1942); Alaskan Department; Alaskan Command; Anchorage; and Squeaky Anderson |
6/39 | Alaska Territorial Guard |
6/40 | Aleutians |
6/41 | B: Subjects include Bernt Balchen; Major General John C. Bennett; Major General Gerald H. Bethke; Big Delta; Walter Blue; Colonel James D. Bush, Jr. |
6/42 | Background since 1940 |
6/43 | C: Subjects include censorship; Chilkoot Barracks; Clear Air Force Station; Coast Artillery; Cold Region Test Center, Fort Greely; Commissary; Communications; Lieutenant Leon Crane |
6/44 | Colonel Lawrence V. Castner and the Alaska Combat Intelligence Platoon |
6/45 | Construction, General (military facilities) |
6/46 | Corps of Engineers |
6/47 | D: Subjects include dates; DEW Line (Distance Early Warning System); Dutch Harbor |
6/48 | E: Subjects include education; 807th Engineer Aviation Battalion; 813th Engineer Battalion (USAR); 890th Chemical Company (Air Ops.); Evacuation of Alaska Natives and Japanese Americans |
6/49 | F: Subjects include Fairbanks Daily News-Miner; 54th Fighter Group; 56th Fighter Group; 4th Infantry; 404th Bomber Squadron (H); a420th Port Company. |
6/50 | G: Subjects include Galena; General orders; Fort Glenn; Glenn Highway; Fort Greely (Kodiak Island and near Big Delta); Ernest Gruening; Gulkana |
7/1 | H: Subjects include Colonel Otis E. Hays, Jr. (correspondence); John S. Hellenthal; Herenden Bay; Historical talks; General Hoge |
7/2 | Insignia |
7/3 | Juneau |
7/4 | K: Subjects include King Salmon; Kiska; Kodiak; Kuriles |
7/5 | L: Subjects include: Ladd Field; Larry Landry; Lend-Lease; Cable repair ship Colonel Basil O. Lenoir |
7/6 | N: Subjects include Naknek Air Base; Alaska National Guard (297th Infantry); U.S. Navy; Negro troops; Nenana; 924th Quartermaster Boat Company (Aviation); 925th Engineer Aviation Group; Brigadier General George J. Nold; Nome; Northway; Nuclear power plant (Fort Greely); Nurses. |
7/7 | O: Subjects include 138th Infantry and 172d Infantry Brigade (Alaska) |
7/8 | P: Subjects include: permafrost; Pierced steel planking (PSP); Pribilof Islands |
7/9 | Quonset Huts |
7/10 | R: Subjects include rations; Robert C. “Bob” Reeve; Reduction in strength (Alaska Defense Command); Relocation (Aleuts); Rescue |
7/11 | Fort Richardson (new) |
7/12 | S: Subjects include St. Paul Island (Col. Francis J. Loomis correspondence); Salvage; Selective Service; 6th Infantry Division; Skagway; Fort J. H. Smith (Cape Chiniak, Kodiak Island); Mayor George M. Sullivan |
7/13 | T: Subjects include Tanacross Army Air Base; Training; 21st Bomber Squadron (H); 28th Bomber Group (B29); 250th Coast Artillery Regiment; 267th Coast Artillery Regiment; 283rd Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance); 30th Engineer Base Topographic Battalion; 36th Bomber Squadron (H); 327th Infantry Regiment; 60th Infantry Regiment. |
7/14 | Trans-Canadian Alaska and Western Railways |
7/15 | U.S. Army, Alaska |
7/16 | V: Subjects include VJ Day; V-Mail; Brigadier General Nathan C. Vail; Valdez; Aleutian volcanoes. |
7/16 | W: Subjects include Fort Wainwright; Weather; West Point; White Alice Communications System (WACS); Whittier (tunnel, port, and pipeline); Women’s Air Corps (WACs) |
7/18 | Y: Subjects include: Yakutat and Yukon Air Division |
7/19 | Adak: Includes History of the Army Air Base, Adak, Alaska, 1942-1944 |
7/20 | Alaska District contracts, 1968-1979 |
7/21 | Alaska Highway |
7/22 | Alaska National Guard |
7/23 | Alaska Road Commission |
7/24 | ALSIB (Alaska-Siberia air route), Lend-Lease |
7/25 | Amchitka |
7/26 | Atka |
7/27 | Attu, “Pilgrimage to the Aleutians” story draft about Col. James D. Bush Jr. |
7/28-29 | Brim Frost training exercises, 1981 and 1987 |
7/30-31 | Canadian Oil Pipeline (CANOL) (1 of 2): Lyman L. Woodman. “CANOL: Pipeline of Brief Glory”; 1978 (draft of historical article, 32 pages); Alaska District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers historical record of the CANOL Project; Apr. 1, 1950 (copy, 92 pages) |
7/32 | 18th Engineer Combat Regiment: Includes “The Eighteenth Engineers Regiment (Combat) in Yukon Territory, April 1942-January 1943” |
7/33 | Eleventh Air Force |
7/34 | Elmendorf Air Force Base |
7/35 | Excursion Inlet (German Prisoner of War camp) |
7/36 | Field exercises |
7/37 | Fort Liscum (Valdez): Includes “Military Historical Sketch of Fort Liscum, Alaska” |
7/38 | Fort Mears (Unalaska) |
7/39 | Fort Morrow (Port Heiden) |
7/40 | Fort Randall (Cold Bay): Includes “Cultural Resource Investigation of Fort Randall, Cold Bay Debris Disposal and Restoration, Defense Environmental Restoration Program” |
7/41 | Fort Ray (Sitka) |
7/42 | Fort Raymond (Seward) |
8/1 | Fort Seward (Haines) |
8/2 | Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline (ALCANGO) |
8/3 | Navy and Coast Guard in Alaska |
8/4 | Project NAN |
8/5 | Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in Alaska |
8/6 | 713th, 714th and 770th Railway Operating Battalions |
8/7 | Sitka |
8/8-11 | Benjamin B. Talley: Correspondence; Biographic materials; Draft biographical articles; Interview notes and transcripts |
8/12 | Weather Meteorology |
8/13 | Wrangel Island |
8/14 | Other Alaskan History |
OS Folder 1 | Map: Alaskan Engineering Commission, Topographical Map of Ship Creek Alaska, 1914 |
OS Folder 1 | Map and correspondence: Passage Canal Co. and Passage Canal Project Maps, United States Army, 1965-1972 |
OS Folder 1 | Plat: Government Hill Subdivision, 1935 |
Rolled Tube | Maps of the Trans-Canadian Alaska and Western Railway |
Part 2. Series 5: Audio reels; 1956-1980. 1.0 cubic feet.
The series contains reel-to-reel audiotape recordings. Tape reels 10-48 are interviews and other recordings for the Armed Forces Radio Network program “Army Hour,” celebrating the Alaska Territorial Centennial in 1967.
Box/ Tape | Description | Dates |
14/1 | Publicity clinic sponsored by the Alaska Chapter, League of Western Writers, Part 1: Speakers Ruth Briggs, Jean Bueter, Lyman Woodman, Lou Ausman, and M.A. Dehlin (7 inch reel, 3.75 ips) | 1956 |
14/2 | Publicity clinic sponsored by the Alaska Chapter, League of Western Writers, Part 2: Speakers M.A. Dehlin and Cliff Cernick (5 inch reel, 3.75 ips) | 1956 |
14/3 | Publicity clinic sponsored by the Alaska Chapter, League of Western Writers, Part 3: Speakers Wendy Jones and James Indanole (5 inch reel, 3.75 ips) | 1956 |
14/4 | Publicity clinic sponsored by the Alaska Chapter, League of Western Writers, Part 4 Speakers Robert Atwood and Del Melke (5 inch reel, 3.75 ips) | 1956 |
14/5 | Sgt. Tavender interview of CAP Cadets regarding exchange program, and Lt. Montgomery interview of Lyman Woodman regarding the Hamilton Air Force Base pistol team: CAP cadets interviewed include: Kent Woodman, Leslie Tam, and Wilfred Fukomoto (5 inch reel, sides one and two, 3.75 ips reel overfull) | 1957 |
14/6 | Evan White interview of Maj. Gen. Ned Moore, commander, U.S. Army, Alaska, and briefings by Col. Majors, G2 for Gen. Moore (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1962 |
14/7 | Conclusion of Alaskan briefing by Col. Majors, U.S. Army, Alaska G2, and all of briefing by Col. Donaldson, G3 (KTVA) (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1962 |
14/8 | “City Hall Reports” program on KNIKFM radio hosted by Les Parker: Lyman Woodman on port expansion in 1965 and future port plans (side 1); Lyman Woodman on new management analysis evaluation and employee suggestion awards program, Anchorage City Manager Bob Oldland commenting on traffic patterns, serving the suburbs, one-way roads, and bypasses (3 inch reel, 3.75 ips includes program notes) | 1966 |
14/9 | “City Hall Reports” program on KNIKFM radio hosted by Les Parker: Lyman Woodman on proposed zoo (side 1); Bob Oldland on telephone business, dog program, and juvenile bureau (side 2) (3 inch reel, 3.75 ips) | 1966 |
14/10 | IIA: Bob Reeve (4.5 minutes) (3 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1966 December |
14/11 | IIE: SFC Whitehead on the Site Summit radar site (4.75 minutes), Fred Murdough on Arctic Valley ski area, Doug Clure on civil defense efforts after the Alaska Earthquake (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips, includes program notes) | undated |
14/12 | IIF: SSG Charles McPeak on the Northern Warfare Training Center (NWTC) at Fort Greely (1.6 minutes), CPT Robert Reinsberger interview on NWTC, Fort Greely (3.5 minutes), SP5 Cliff Duren, wrecker driver, Ft. Greely (3.0 minutes), 1LT Dennis DeFraine, coach of the biathlon team at Fort Wainwright (3.0 minutes) (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | undated |
14/13 | IIG: Carl Sullivan, General Manager, Anchorage Centennial Commission (6.0 minutes), MSG Bill Vellon of Army Community Services (4.5 minutes), SSG Musa Muhamed of the Wildlife Museum on Fort Richardson (5 minutes) (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips, includes program notes) | undated |
14/14 | IIH: MSG Al Varnes on 25th anniversary of AFRN (6 minutes), Carol Bahr on Cook Inlet Native Association potlatch at Fort Richardson (4.5 minutes), SPC Ephraim Viera of steel drum band, 172d Brigade, Fort Richardson (4.0 minutes) (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips, includes program notes) | undated |
14/15 | III: “Ptarmigan telegrams” from Nome (2.38 minutes), Elmer Straub, gold miner from Nome (4.5 minutes) (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips, includes program notes) | undated |
14/16 | IIJ: Nellie Brown, early homesteader, unedited (15 minutes) (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips, includes program notes) | 1966 December |
14/17 | IIK: Dave Green, Anchorage furrier, unedited (16 minutes) (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) 1966 December | |
14/18 | IIM: Dennis Cook, General Manager, A67, Alaska Centennial Exposition (5.10 minutes), Eva McGowan, first lady of Fairbanks (7.30 minutes) (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips, includes program notes) | circa 1967 |
14/19 | IIN1: Dennis Cook and Eva McGowan, unedited (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | circa 1967 |
14/20 | IIN2: Eva McGowan, second part (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips, includes program notes) | circa 1967 |
14/21 | IIO: WO Andy Scheidemantel, Fort Wainwright bush pilot (4.5 minutes), PFC Richard Viola, Fort Greely military policeman (3 minutes), 1LT Jack Kemp and 1SG Orlando Hawkins on winter training for the 6th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, Fort Wainwright (5 minutes) (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1966 December |
14/22 | IIP: Martin Victor, Anchorage furrier (6.25 minutes) (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips, includes program notes) | undated |
14/23 | IIP: Martin Victor, edited but incomplete (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1966 December |
14/24 | IIQ: Martin Victor, extra material (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | undated |
14/25 | IIR1: Marvin “Muktuk” Marston, #1, unedited (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1966 December 5 |
14/26 | IIR2: Marvin “Muktuk” Marston, #2, on dogsled trip from Nome around Seward Peninsula (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1966 December 5 |
14/27 | IIR3: Marvin “Muktuk” Marston, #3, on nickname and Jade Mountain (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1966 December 5 |
14/28 | IIR4: Marvin “Muktuk” Marston, #4, on Seward Peninsula trip, Paul Kaelnikoff, how he became a sourdough, and Elaknagasoola (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1966 December 5 |
14/29 | IIS: Ralph Dobbs, design engineer, Alaska District (5 minutes), SFC Spruill, 33d Signal Battalion (4.2 minutes), and MAJ Lloyd Ahvakana, 1st Signal Battalion (5 minutes) (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | undated |
14/30 | AFRN’s duplicate recording of David Green, Nellie Brown, and Marvin “Muktuk” Marston interviews (7 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1966 December |
14/31 | Short version of Nellie Brown and Marvin “Muktuk” Marston interviews compiled for Government Hill Meeting on Apr. 23, 1982 (the interviews date to 1966) (7 inch reel, half full, 7.5 ips) | 1966 |
14/32 | Marvin “Muktuk” Marston original, reverse, and patch back (7 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1966 December |
14/33 | Eva McGown interview (7 inch reel, half full, 7.5 ips) | 1966 |
14/34 | Bob Reeve interview (7 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1966 December |
14/35 | Stanley McCutcheon talks about the Tyonek Indians and their village on KFQD radio program, “Contact” (5 inch reel, 3.75 ips) | 1966 January 9 |
14/36 | Eskimo music and dances by members of the 1st Scout Battalion, Alaska National Guard from Little Diomede Island, with interview and comments by Lyman Woodman of the Information Office, U.S. Army, Alaska (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | 1967 February 24 |
14/37 | Brig. Gen. Benjamin B. Talley presentation on construction of military airfields in Alaska during World War II (5 inch reel, 3.75 ips) | 1969 June 26 |
14/38 | Lyman Woodman interview of Marvin “Muktuk” Marston regarding film on the Alaska Territorial Guard and pieces he gave to the Cook Inlet Historical Society (5 inch reel, recorded on both sides, 3.75 ips) | 1970 November 8 |
14/39 | Lyman Woodman practice talk on journalism for school class (5 inch reel, 3.75 ips) | 1971 March 10 |
14/40 | Briefing before Cannikan underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island (5 inch reel, 3.65 ips) | circa 1971 |
14/41-42 | Ron Gardner interview of Col. George R. Robertson on KYAK radio program “Insight ’76” regarding the Susitna River feasibility study (two 5 inch reels, half full each, 7.5 ips) | 1976 August 29 |
14/43 | 11th Army Air Force banquet at Adak air base with comments by Gen. Benjamin B. Talley and Col. Robert C. Orth, commander of the 404th Bomber Squadron (7 inch reel, recording on both sides, 3.75 ips) | 1980 August |
14/44 | “Alaska, the Great Land” radio program (5 inch reel, 3.75 and 7.5 ips, recorded on both tracks) | 1980 October |
14/45 | “Far North Jamboree” musical radio program on KBYR Radio (5 inch reel, 7.5 ips) | undated |
14/46 | “Mukluk Telegraph” program of radio messages to listeners (5 inch reel, 3.75 ips) | undated |
14/47 | Sammy Mogg Eskimo dances (5 inch reel, half full, 3.75 ips) | undated |
14/48 | Jacques Conder describing play about the life of Alaska Nellie (3 inch reel, half full, 3.75 ips) | undated |
Part 2. Series 6: Audiocassette recordings; 1966-1987. 0.25 cubic feet.
This series consists of Lyman Woodman’s audiocassette recordings regarding journalism, and civic and military affairs, as well as Anchorage and military history.
Box/ Tape | Description | Dates |
15/1 | “The Army Hour” radio program on Air Forces Radio Network (60 minute tape, copied from original reel-to-reel): Side A: Nellie Brown (Anchorage pioneer) interview, 5 minutes, and Martin Victor (furrier) interview, 15 minutes; Side B: Bob Reeve interview, 21 minutes | 1966 December 15 |
15/2 | “The Army Hour” radio program on Air Forces Radio Network: Side A: Dave Green interview, 17 minutes; Eva McGowan interview, 12.5 minutes, Side B: Marvin “Muktuk” Marston interview, 16 minutes (60 minute tape, copied from original reel-to-reel tape) | 1966 December |
15/3 | Betzi Woodman interview of Mitchell Martin, Kake Tlingit at Sitka (90 minute tape) | 1969 February 28 |
15/4 | Betzi Woodman interviews of Flora Rock and Rita Ramoth, S.J. at Sitka (90 minute tape) | 1969 March 2 |
15/5 | Robert “Boots” Clifton of Valdez interview concerning his World War II service with the federalized 297th Infantry Battalion (Separate), Alaska National Guard (60 minute tape) | 1973 October 4 |
15/6 | George Attla and Dr. Lombard at finish of sled dog race, Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, and Bob and Nelda Mermsteen chat (60 minute tape) | 1974 February |
15/ 7-8 | General Benjamin B. Talley’s projects and the Old Believers (2 tapes, 60 minute each) | 1974 August 8 |
15/9 | Harry Schandlin interview of General Benjamin B. Talley concerning capital move on radio program, “Contact,” on KIMO radio station (Side B of 90 minute tape) | 1976 August 8 |
15/ 10-13 | Steve Clark interview of General Benjamin B. Talley for Homer News (460 minute tapes) | 1978 June 23 |
15/14 | General Benjamin B. Talley interview concerning Ninilchik School (60 minute tape) | 1979 May |
15/ 15-19 | General Benjamin B. Talley interview: Scholastic Awards; Omaha Beach; Nicaragua Canal Survey; Youth, German POWs, Aleutians; Kermit Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.; Washington D.C.; Capital move; Engineers video; Personal property auctions, General Wheeler’s death, and the Russians’ best soldiers; War bonds and radar on the Ohio River (5 tapes: 140 minute, 360 minute, 190 minute) | 1979 July 17 |
15/20 | General Benjamin B. Talley viewing film at the Alaska District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (60 minute tape) | 1979 August 22 |
15/ 21-22 | 11th Army Air Force Reunion: Frank L. O’Brien interview (260 minute tapes) | 1980 August 13 |
15/23 | 11th Army Air Force Reunion: Harvey W. Gripple interview (60 minute tape) | 1980 August 13 |
15/24 | 11th Army Air Force Reunion: Isaac Brill and Charles Pinney interviews; | 1980 August 15 |
15/25 | 11th Army Air Force Reunion: Benjamin B. Talley and other veterans at Adak (60 minute tape) | 1980 August 17 |
15/26 | 11th Army Air Force Reunion: AFRTS banquet at CPO Club, Adak | 1980 August 17 |
15/27 | 11th Army Air Force Reunion: Allen T. “Red” Miller interview | 1980 August 18 |
15/28 | 11th Army Air Force Reunion: Joe Schneider and Richard B. Cross interviews | 1980 August 19 |
15/ 29-30 | 11th Army Air Force Reunion: John W. Pletcher, Jr. interview (two 60 minute tapes) | 1980 August 28 |
15/31 | Portions of December 1966 “Army Hour” recordings compiled for a meeting of the Cook Inlet Historical Society: Lyman Woodman introduction and portions of Marvin “Muktuk” Marston, Eva McGowan, and David Green interviews (60 minute tape) | 1981 January 8 |
15/32 | Ole Kola interview regarding his work as a civil engineer on the Whittier Tunnel | 1981 June 19 |
15/33 | Larry Landry interview regarding U.S. Army, Alaska (60 minute tape) | 1981 August 24 |
15/34 | John S. Hellenthal interview regarding 297th Infantry (90 minute tape) | 1981 September 25 |
15/35 | Wally Martens interview regarding World War II (60 minute tape) | 1981 September 29 |
15/36 | Government Hill Sourdough: Anna Hanson interview (60 minute tape) | 1982 April 18 |
15/37 | Government Hill Sourdough: Jack and Edith Karterman and John Manley interviews; (60 minute tape) | 1982 April 18 |
15/38 | Government Hill Sourdough: Oakley Brown interview (60 minute tape) | 1982 April 19 |
15/39 | Government Hill Sourdough: Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hahn interview (60 minute tape) | 1982 April 19 |
15/40 | Government Hill Sourdough: Hazel Davidson (60 minute tape) | 1982 April 20 |
15/41 | John L. Daigneault tape regarding the pre-World War II Army harbor boat Fornance (60 minute tape) | 1982 June |
15/42 | Colonel Vernon W. Pinkey interview concerning Chilkoot Barracks (60 minute tape) | 1982 July 26 |
15/43 | Lyman Woodman speech on Billy Mitchell and the book, The Opening of Alaska, at a Cook Inlet Historical Society meeting at the Anchorage Museum (32 minutes on 90 minute tape) | 1982 August 19 |
15/44 | Howard Robinson interview concerning World War II (90 minute tape) | 1982 October 4 |
15/45 | Lyman Woodman speech on Billy Mitchell at brownbag luncheon (60 minute tape) | 1982 October 6 |
15/46 | Lyman Woodman speech on the Royal Canadian Air Force in Alaska during World War II to the Order of Daedalians at Elmendorf Air Force Base | 1983 February 15 |
15/47 | Lyman Woodman speech on WAMCATS (Side 2 of 60 minute tape) | 1983 May 14 |
15/48 | Lyman Woodman speech, “Army Explorations in Alaska, 18691900,” at Anchorage Community College (90 minute tape) | 1983 October 21 |
15/49 | Iditarod Radio Network: End of the 1985 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race at Nome with interview of winner Libby Riddles (Side A of 60 minute tape) | 1985 March |
15/50 | Robert Gagle interview concerning his work as surveyor on Project NAN during 19441945 on the Seward Peninsula (90 minute tape) | 1987 June |
15/51 | Lyle Gunderson tape regarding service in the U.S. Army at Fort Richardson and Nome during World War II (30 minute tape) | undated |
Part 3: Photographs and slides; 1955-1992. 5.4 cubic feet.
Part 3. Series 1: Alaska and Western Canada photographs; 1936-1979. 2.8 cubic feet.
This series consists of Betzi and Lyman Woodman’s photographic prints and negatives, post cards, color transparencies, and contact print sheets and strips. Most of the images were taken by Betzi or Lyman Woodman, however some are from other photographers and sources, which are noted where possible. Many of the images relate to series and files in both of their papers, particularly Lyman Woodman’s writings and Betzi Woodman’s project files. The series is arranged alphabetically by place name and then alphabetically by subject.
Box/ Folder | Description | Dates |
8/15 | Adak: Russian fishing boats (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1972 |
8/16 | Alyeska Ski Resort (Betzi Woodman and State of Alaska photos, including captions and press release) | undated, 1970, 1974 |
8/17 | Amchitka: Underground nuclear tests Long Shot, Milrow and Cannikin, and sea otter transplant (Lyman Woodman, Betzi Woodman, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission photos) | 1965, 1969-1971 |
8/18 | Amchitka: Pre-Projects Longshot, Milrow, and Cannikin, and sea otter transplant (Betzi Woodman photos including photo descriptions) | 1965-1970 |
8/19 | Anchorage: Cemetery (Lyman Woodman photos) | undated, 1962, 1965, 1971 |
8/20 | Anchorage: City (primarily Lyman Woodman photos): Downtown, buildings, homes, construction | undated, 1962-1978 |
8/21 | Anchorage: Museum (Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1968-1970 |
8/22 | Anchorage: Parks (Lyman Woodman photos) | 1965, 1976-1977 |
8/23 | Anchorage: Port, marina, Standard Oil fire (primarily Lyman Woodman photos) | undated, 1964-1977 |
8/24 | Anchorage: Negatives and contact prints, Archbishop installation (Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1965-1981 |
8/25 | Barrow: U.S. Air Force Station, Wein Airlines inaugural flight (primarily Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1964-1979 |
8/26 | Bethel: Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP), pre maternal home (Kingalret Witaviat), and pre-fabricated housing (Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1968, 1971 |
8/27 | Cape Newenham: Captain Cook Bicentennial and Air Force Station (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1978 July |
8/28 | Central, Circle Hot Springs, and Circle City (Betzi Woodman photos) | undated |
8/29 | Chitina: Construction of new bridge over Copper River (Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | 1971 |
8/30 | Clark’s Point: Air National Guard dog rescue | 1964 November 21 |
8/31 | Cordova: Betzi Woodman in front of Windsor Hotel (Lyman Woodman photo) | 1968 |
8/32 | Dawson City, Yukon Territory: opening of the Palace Grande Theater | undated, 1962 |
8/33 | Eagle and the Taylor Highway (Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | 1972 August |
8/34 | Eklutna: Army training exercise (Lyman Woodman photos) | 1966 July |
8/35 | Elim on Norton Sound: Health clinic and village (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1972 |
8/36 | Elmendorf Air Force Base: Alaska District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters, Armed Forces Day, Alaska Railroad troop sleeper car (Lyman Woodman photos) | undated, 1965, 1979 |
8/37 | Fairbanks and Nenana: Golden Days Parade, Alaskaland (Centennial exhibition site), University of Alaska campus (primarily Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1966-1969 |
8/38 | Fern Mine ruins near Hatcher Pass | 1968 |
8/39 | Fort Richardson: Post headquarters building, Eklutna Glacier mountain climbing training site and Art Linkletter visit, Site Summit radar and missile site (primarily Lyman Woodman photos) | undated, 1968-1977 |
8/40 | Fort Richardson Cemetery (Lyman Woodman photos) | undated, 1968-1979 |
8/41 | Fort Richardson: Fish program, Governor William A. Egan visit (Lyman Woodman and U.S. Army, Alaska photos) | 1964 |
8/42 | Gakona Roadhouse, pump station at Tok, and Taylor Highway; Glenallen | undated, 1972 |
8/43 | Golovin and White Mountain, Bureau of Indian Affairs School | undated, 1968 |
8/44 | Haines and Fort Seward: Chilkoot Barracks (Lyman Woodman photos), Southeast Alaska Fair (press photos and captions) | undated, 1967 |
8/45 | Healy: city view from above (Lyman Woodman photo) | 1975 August 7 |
9/1 | Hilberg Lake, Elmendorf Air Force Base scenic fall views (Lyman Woodman photos) | undated, 1970 |
9/2 | Homer and Kachemak Bay: Wilderness Lodge, Halibut Cove (Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | 1971-1977 |
9/3 | Hoonah: village aerial views, boat harbor, fishing boats | 1967 |
9/4 | Hope area and Palmer Creek | undated, 1971, 1974 |
9/5 | Hyder and Stewart, British Columbia: U.S. Army Engineer Stonehouse in Hyder built in 1896, July 4th celebration and tug-of-war (primarily Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1976, 1984 |
9/6 | Inuvik, Northwest Territory | undated |
9/7 | Juneau: Mendenhall Glacier, Nina Chapman (primarily Betzi and Lyman Woodman photos) | undated, 1967-1977 |
9/8 | Kake: Potlatch and raising of world’s tallest totem pole (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1971 |
9/9 | Kake: Potlatch (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1971 |
9/10 | Katmai National Monument: Apollo astronauts doing astrogeological field work | 1965-1966 |
9/11 | Kenai and Soldotna: Russian Orthodox churches in Kenai, Kenai chemical plant and oil platform (Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1966-1967 |
9/12 | Ketchikan: Ketchikan King Salmon Derby, Haida carver Jones Teltatzie and large salmon carving | undated, 1967, 1976 |
9/13 | Klukwan: Group of Chilkat villagers in full regalia; Knik: Old Knik and Knik Cemetery | undated, 1967 |
9/14 | Kodiak and Spruce Island: Canonization services for Father Herman of Alaska (includes notes on photographs), Erskine House and museum, Kodiak Russian Orthodox church, Military cemetery, Quonset huts near Miller Army Air Field at Chiniak Point, Copies of S.C. Ibsen photos of Kodiak before and after Mt. Katmai eruption (Betzi and Lyman Woodman photos) | undated |
9/15 | Kotzebue: Native dancers and drummers | 1964-1974 |
9/16 | Kuparuk oil field: Ice road building | undated |
9/17 | Little Susitna River (Lyman Woodman photos) | 1973 |
9/18 | Lost River Mine (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1972 August |
9/19 | Mount McKinley National Park | 1941-1975 |
9/20 | Naknek and King Salmon: Canneries and towns | 1965 |
9/21 | Nenana (Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1972, 1975 |
9/22 | Ninilchik (Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | 1966-1979 |
9/23 | Nome: KNOM religious radio station, King Island Dancers, Gold mining tours and Wild Goose Railroad, Alaska Air tours (primarily Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1966-1974 |
9/24 | North Slope or Prudhoe Bay: Oil drilling facilities and workers, archaeological survey team and artifacts (Betzi Woodman photos) | undated |
9/25 | North Slope or Prudhoe Bay: Oil drilling facilities and workers, BP and ARCO (Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1968-1970, 1974 |
9/26 | Northeast Cape: U.S. Air Force Station personnel and activities (includes USAF photos, captions, and press releases, notes, and clippings), Youth Corps Program | 1964-1965 |
9/27 | Palmer and Matanuska Valley (primarily Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1965-1969 |
9/28 | Petersburg (Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1971, 1977 |
9/29 | Port Clarence: U.S. Coast Guard LORAN Station | 1972 August |
9/30 | Portage Glacier | undated, 1973 |
9/31 | Pribilof Islands: St. George and St. Paul (primarily Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1968-1986 |
9/32 | Prudhoe Bay: BP oil wells, headquarters and tugs (Lyman Woodman photos including captions) | 1969, 1975 |
9/33 | Ruth Glacier and Mt. McKinley: Don Sheldon’s chalet (Betzi Woodman photos with story draft) | 1966 |
9/34 | St. Lawrence Island: Gambell and Savoonga, grave excavation (primarily Betzi Woodman photos including draft story on Savoonga) | undated, 1964-1969 |
9/35 | St. Mary’s Mission: Mission fire and ruins, Alaska Air National Guard Operation Santa Claus (includes Betzi Woodman and Alaska Air National Guard photos) | undated, 1963-1971 |
9/36 | St. Mary’s Mission, St. Marys (Betzi Woodman photos including negative information) | undated, 1970-1972 |
9/37 | Seldovia | undated, 1963, 1974 |
9/38 | Seward, Seward All-American City celebration | 1965-1968 |
9/39 | Shageluk: Ordination of first woman deacon (Betzi Woodman photos and related letter) | 1972 February |
9/40 | Ship Creek, Elmendorf Air Force Base: Winter scenery (Lyman Woodman photos) | undated, 1962-1978 |
9/41 | Sitka: Alaska Day celebrations, Sitka National Cemetery ceremonies, Dedication of small boat harbor, St. Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church, Tlingit gathering (Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos, plus other photographers) | 1961-1975 |
9/42 | Sitka (Betzi and Lyman Woodman photos) | undated, 1966-1972 |
9/43 | Skagway | undated, 1967, 1977 |
9/44 | Talkeetna (Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1965-1966 |
9/45 | Tanacross and Chief Isaac (Betzi Woodman photos) | undated |
9/46 | Teller: Village, cemetery and ferry; Tok and Jack Wade Dredge along Taylor Highway, Tok Lodge, Robinson photo, No. 128-E | 1972, 1974 |
9/47 | Unalakleet: Houses, airstrip, and children (Betzi Woodman photos) | circa 1960-1969 |
9/48 | Unalaska and Dutch Harbor, Russian Orthodox Church (Lyman Woodman photos) | 1974 |
10/1 | Valdez: Pioneer resident Billie Quitsch, All-American City celebration | undated, 1966, 1968 |
10/2 | Valdez, Old Valdez, Fort Liscum, and pipeline construction (primarily Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1964-1977 |
10/3 | Whittier and Whittier Terminal (primarily Lyman Woodman photos) | undated, 1971-1972 |
10/4 | Wiseman and Coldfoot (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1970, 1974 |
10/5 | Wrangell Mountains with Secretary of the Interior Morton (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1972 August |
10/6 | Yukon River: “Yukon Bud” Fisher, Commodore of the Yukon Flotilla, log church at Fort Selkirk, Whitehorse Shipyard | undated |
10/7 | A67: Alaska 67 Centennial Exhibition: Fairbanks exhibition site and activities (Alaskaland), Hot air balloon, Press and fashion photos, Centennial kickoff party and art show and art awards in Juneau, Canadian Centennial Committee | 1966-1967 |
10/8 | Alaska Airlines: Press photos and inauguration of 727 service, press photos by Bob and Ira Spring (subjects include Anchorage Fur Rendezvous sled dog race, King Island Dancers in Nome, Sitka air view, and Mendenhall Glacier), Alaska Airlines 727 service | undated, 1966 |
10/9 | Alaska Native Hospital: Portraits of patients (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1967 |
10/10 | Alaska Railroad: J.T. Cunningham portrait, James J. Delaney portrait, 50th anniversary of Nenana Golden Spike ceremony in Nenana, dedication of Mears Memorial Bridge over Tanana River at Nenana, Locomotive 1510, Bicentennial | undated, 1947-1976 |
10/11 | Alaska Railroad (Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1972-1976 |
10/12 | Animals: Moose, reindeer, muskoxen, and owl (Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1965-1979 |
10/13 | Bicentennial: 4th of July Celebration in Anchorage | 1975-1976 |
10/14 | Canonization of Father Herman, first Russian Orthodox Saint in America at Kodiak (Betzi Woodman photos plus story drafts | 1970 |
10/15 | Captain Cook Ball (Betzi Woodman Photos) | 1977 February 5 |
10/16 | Captain Cook Bicentennial Statue in Resolution Park, Anchorage, dedication ceremony (Betzi Woodman photos | 1978 |
10/17 | Captain Cook Bicentennial: Girl Scout pageant and Returnagain Round-up (Betzi Woodman photos plus description sheets) | 1976 June 10 |
10/18 | Church: Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (primarily Betzi Woodman photos) | 1965-1966 |
10/19 | Coast Guard: Locations include Juneau, Adak, and Burton Island (Betzi Woodman photos plus description sheets) | 1972-1973 |
10/20 | Cook Inlet Region Inc. (CIRI) Building construction (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1977 |
10/21 | Cool Barge (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1974 |
10/22 | Curling: Anchorage Curling Club (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1969 May |
10/23 | Dog Teams: Iditarod, Fur Rendezvous (primarily Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1952-1977 |
10/24 | Drilling: Oil drilling platform (Betzi Woodman photos and story notes) | undated, 1977 |
10/25 | Neva Egan: Alaskan First Lady at Governor’s Mansion | circa 1962 |
10/26 | Ferries: Alaska Marine Highway, MV Tustumena at Seward | undated, 1965 |
10/27 | Hunting and fishing: Lyman Woodman on hunting and fishing trips and target practice (Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1965-1977 |
10/28 | Ice bombing: Breaking ice jams on interior rivers (U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska photos with captions, press release, story notes, and newspaper clippings) | 1964-1965 |
10/29 | Ice forecasting (U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, Humble Oil and Refining Company, and Sandia Laboratories photos): Ice breaking tanker S.S. Manhattan, aircraft and instruments | undated, 1969-1970 |
10/30 | Ice Island – ARLIS II (Arctic Research Laboratory Ice Station II operated by the Arctic Research Laboratory in Barrow) | 1961 |
10/31 | Ice Island T-3: Fletcher’s Ice Island (primarily U.S. Air Force photos) | undated, 1968 |
10/32 | Colin Irwin and the sailboat Endeavor | 1979 |
10/33 | Andrew Gronholdt: Sand Point historian with Aleut bentwood hats (includes description) | 1982 |
10/34 | Land Claims: Meeting of Village Council Presidents Association of leaders from Lower Yukon and Kuskokwim River villages (Betzi Woodman photos with description sheets) | 1968 |
10/35 | Liquid natural gas (LNG) drilling platform and refinery | 1968 August |
10/36 | Military: C-130-D aircraft and U.S. Army winter exercise (Lyman Woodman photos), U.S. Air Force aircraft and Elmendorf Air Force Base (U.S. Air Force photos), U.S. Army, Alaska Band on Alaska Centennial ferry trip, unveiling of plaque commemorating the meeting of President Nixon and Japanese Emperor Hirohito at Elmendorf Air Force Base on Sep. 26, 1971 (Alaskan Air Command photo) | undated, 1964-1972 |
10/37 | Mining trip: Open pit gold mine in High Arctic, Victor Fisher at mine in Canada (Betzi Woodman photos) | undated |
10/38 | Moose Gooser train to Talkeetna (primarily Lyman Woodman photos), J.A. Hunter, engineer for Moose Gooser No. 1 | undated, 1936-1967 |
10/39 | Native Games: NCAI Olympics, Parade | 1970, 1972 |
10/40 | Natives: Alaska Federation of Natives conventions and others (primarily Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1968-1971 |
10/41 | Nepal: King and queen visit Alaska | 1967 November |
10/42 | Oil rigs: Platforms, Cook Inlet, Kenai Peninsula, Gulf of Alaska | undated, 1964 |
10/43 | Old Believers, naturalization ceremony (Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1975 |
10/44 | Pathfinder: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ship in Cook Inlet | 1966 July |
10/45 | Petroleum: Not North Slope or pipeline (Betzi Woodman photos and description sheets) | undated |
10/46 | Pipeline: Construction (Betzi Woodman photos and other sources) | undated, 1971 |
10/47 | Pipeline: Construction, locations include Fairbanks Atigun Pass, Yukon River (Betzi Woodman photos with a few descriptive sheets and contact prints) | undated, 1971-1979 |
10/48 | Pipeline: Dietrich Camp and experimental helicopter (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1974 |
10/49 | Pipeline: Press photos Alaskan Arctic Gas Company | undated |
10/50 | Pipeline: Press photos Alyeska Pipeline Service Company | circa 1975 |
10/51 | Pipeline: Press photos Atlantic Richfield Company | undated, 1974-1977 |
10/52 | Pipeline: Press photos Bechtel Corporation, Bechtel-Rolligon vehicles on expedition between Fairbanks and Prudhoe Bay. | 1972 |
10/53 | Pipeline: Press photos BP Alaska | 1977 |
10/54 | Project Long Shot, Amchitka Island (U.S. Air Force and DASA photos with photo information sheets) | 1965 |
11/1 | Radar sites: White Alice, locations include Adak, Cape Lisburne, Pedro Dome, Shemya, and Tatalina | undated |
11/2 | Reindeer, Reindeer loading at Golovin, for transplant to South Korea | undated, 1968-1969 |
11/3 | Rendezvous: Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, Miners and Trappers Ball, parade, carnival, fur auction, (primarily Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1965-1974 |
11/4 | Revival: Singer Ethel Waters at religious revival | 1971 June |
11/5 | Scenic: Summer (Lyman Woodman photos) | undated, 1962-1975 |
11/6 | Scenic: Winter, cabin at Tahneta Pass near Eureka (Lyman and Betzi Woodman photos) | undated, 1965-1971 |
11/7 | Solomon gold dredge (Betzi Woodman photos) | 1972 August |
11/8 | Summer: Outdoor, locations include Hurricane Gulch, Rainbow Valley, Ship Creek, Thunderbird Falls, Turnagain Arm, Upper Girdwood Road | undated, 1971-1973 |
11/9 | Totem poles: Press photos – Pacific Northern Airlines, locations include Klawak, Ketchikan (Totem Bight State Park), and Wrangell (Shakes Island) | undated |
11/10 | Volcanoes, ash from Mt. St. Augustine eruption | undated, 1976 |
11/11 | Wein Consolidated Airlines: Arctic summer press photos | undated |
11/12 | Welcome Center, Anchorage | 1968 March |
Part 3. Series 2: Alaska and Western Canada slides; 1955-1986. 1.0 cubic feet.
This series consists of the Woodmans’ slides from their personal and professional travels. The series is arranged alphabetically by place name and then alphabetically by subject.
Box/ Folder | Description | Dates |
11/13 | Amchitka and Adak | 1968-1973 |
11/14 | Anchorage: General | 1953-1980 |
11/15 | Anchorage: Port and marina | undated, 1962-1979 |
11/16 | Anchorage from hot air balloon and preparation | 1985-1986 |
11/17 | Attu | 1976, 1981 |
11/18 | Bethel | 1971 December |
11/19 | Cape Newenham and Captain Cook Bicentennial | undated, 1978 |
11/20 | Circle City and Central | 1975 |
11/21 | Cordova | 1968 |
11/22 | Devil’s Canyon and Watana Dam on the Susitna River | 1978 |
11/23 | Eagle | 1972 |
11/24 | Elim | undated |
11/25 | Elmendorf Air Force Base | 1955-1980 |
11/26 | Fairbanks area, locations include University of Alaska campus and museum, Alaskaland, Chena River, Tanana River, Nenana River, and Rapids Roadhouse | undated, 1954-1975 |
11/27 | Fort Richardson, locations include Moose Run Golf Course, Site Summit radar station, and cemetery | 1956-1979 |
11/28 | Girdwood and Alyeska Ski Resort | 1974, 1986 |
11/29 | Haines and Chilkoot Barracks | 1963, 1967 |
11/30 | Homer and Kachemak Bay, locations include China Poot Bay and Halibut Cove | 1967, 1974 |
11/31 | Hope area, locations include Resurrection Creek, Palmer Creek Valley, and Bear Creek Valley | undated, 1971-1973, 1975 |
11/32 | Hyder and Stewart, British Columbia Engineer Storehouse No. 4 built in 1896, Bicentennial July 4th celebration | 1976 |
11/33 | Kake: Harbor | 1971 |
11/34 | Katmai National Monument: Apollo astronaut fieldwork | 1965 |
11/35 | Kenai and Old Believers religious colony, Kenai Russian Orthodox churches, Old Believers naturalization ceremony | 1967-1980 |
11/36 | Ketchikan | 1976 |
11/37 | Kodiak, Archbishop at Monk’s Lagoon on Spruce Island | 1966-1982 |
11/38 | Little Diomede Island, King Island, and Nome, King Neptune Ceremony | 1985 |
11/39 | Lost River Gold Mine | 1972 |
11/40 | Matanuska Valley, Fern Mine, Little Susitna River | 1966-1973 |
11/41 | Mt. McKinley, Talkeetna, and Alaska Railroad, Don Sheldon’s hut on Ruth Glacier | 1966-1980 |
11/42 | Nabesna and Wrangell Mountains, Nabesna Mine and buildings | 1964 October |
11/43 | Nenana River: Fish camp and fish wheels | 1966, 1975 |
11/44 | Ninilchik | undated, 1966-1975 |
11/45 | Nome | 1955-1979 |
11/46 | Petersburg: Crystal Lake and Blind Slough Dam | 1977 |
11/47 | Point Barrow, Cool Barge, and CIDS oil drilling platform in Prudhoe Bay, Ice Island T-3 | 1970-1985 |
11/48 | Point McKenzie: Dedication of new dairy | 1983 September 17 |
11/49 | Port Clarence: Coast Guard LORAN site | 1972 |
11/50 | Pribilof Islands: St. Paul and St. George | 1968 April |
11/51 | Prince William Sound: Cruise on Glacier Queen and Columbia Glacier | 1980 |
11/52 | St. Mary’s Mission, St. Marys: Fire | 1963 |
11/53 | Savoonga, St. Lawrence Island | 1966 |
11/54 | Seldovia and Seward, Betzi and Muktuk Marston at Homer waiting for airplane to Seldovia | 1962 |
11/55 | Seward | 1965, 1976 |
11/56 | Shageluk | 1972 February |
11/57 | Sitka | undated, 1966-1978 |
11/58 | Salmon River: Gold dredge | 1972 |
11/59 | Tanacross: Chief Walter Isaac, Timothy’s Episcopal Mission | 1955 November |
11/60 | Tahneta Pass: Blueberry picking | 1976 August |
11/61 | Tok, Chicken, and Taylor Highway, Chicken and Jack Wade gold dredges | 1972 September |
11/62 | Valdez | 1966, 1968, 1975-1977 |
11/63 | White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad | undated, 1977 |
11/64 | A67: Alaska Centennial Exposition grounds, sternwheeler Nenana, and Tillie Reeve and her centennial train caboose | 1966 |
11/65 | Alaska Panavue commercial tourist slides (subjects include Anchorage, Spenard, earthquake, animals, recreation, economy, agriculture, and fisheries) | undated, 1964 |
11/66 | Alaska Railroad: Locomotive No. 1510, Bicentennial train | circa 1976 |
11/67 | Arctic gas trip to Inuvik and Yellowknife, Canada | 1975 |
11/68 | Coast Guard in Cook Inlet | 1972 February |
11/69 | Coast Guard icebreaker | 1979 May |
11/70 | Coast Guard search in Prince William Sound | 1980 March |
11/71 | Dog mushing: Anchorage Fur Rendezvous | 1972-1977 |
11/72 | Earthquake damage in Anchorage, Girdwood, Portage, Seward, and Seldovia | 1964 |
11/73 | Exxon oil drilling rig | 1977 April |
11/74 | High Arctic, Canada, Cambridge Bay and Arctic Bay on Baffin Island | undated, 1982-1983 |
11/75 | Flowers | undated, 1966-1979 |
11/76 | Glaciers: Bear, Columbia, Matanuska, Mendenhall, Portage, and Ruth | undated, 1966-1977 |
11/77 | Mountains | undated, 1966-1979 |
11/78 | National Park Service photos: Glacier Bay, Katmai, and Mt. McKinley | 1980 |
11/79 | President Nixon stopover in Alaska | 1971 September |
11/80 | Old Believers religious colony and naturalization ceremony | circa 1975 |
11/81 | Personal and family | 1960-1984 |
11/82 | Pipeline: Locations identified include Dietrich Camp, Prudhoe Bay, and Valdez | undated, 1969-1982 |
12/1-2 | Pipeline | undated, 1969-1982 |
12/3 | Sunsets | undated, 1966-1974 |
Part 3. Series 3: 1964 Earthquake photographs; 1964-1965. 0.25 cubic feet.
This series consists primarily of Lyman Woodman’s photographs, as well U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force photographs, of earthquake damage in Anchorage following the 1964 Earthquake. The photographs were taken while Woodman was the assistant city manager. Areas pictured include Downtown Anchorage, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Fort Richardson, Government Hill, Turnagain housing development, and the waterfront.
Box/ Folder | Description | Dates |
12/4 | Downtown Anchorage: 1st to 5th Avenue (Lyman Woodman photos) | 1964 |
12/5 | Downtown: South of 5th Avenue (Lyman Woodman photos) | 1964 |
12/6 | Downtown (U.S. Army photos) | 1964-1965 |
12/7 | Elmendorf Air Force Base and Fort Richardson | 1964 |
12/8 | Government Hill School (U.S. Army photos) | 1964 |
12/9 | Hillside Apartments (Lyman Woodman photos) | 1964 |
12/10 | Mt. McKinley Building (U.S. Army photos) | 1964 |
12/11 | Turnagain housing development (Lyman Woodman photos) | 1964 |
12/12 | Turnagain housing development (U.S. Army photos) | 1964-1965 |
12/13 | Turnagain housing development (U.S. Air Force photos) | 1964 |
12/14 | Waterfront (U.S. Army photos) | 1964 |
12/15 | Other: subjects include Alaska Sales and Service, Government Hill School, J.C. Penny’s building, Municipal Light and Power fuel tanks, West High School (primarily Lyman Woodman photos) | 1964-1965 |
12/16 | Photo post cards of earthquake damage in downtown and Turnagain housing development, J & H Sales Co., Anchorage (publisher) | 1964 |
Part 3. Series 4: Other travel and personal photographs, negatives, and slides; 1960-1992. 1.45 cubic feet.
This series consists of Betzi and Lyman Woodman’s photographs and slides, a majority of the slides are from their travels in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. The series also contains photographic negatives and contact print strips of images taken by Lyman Woodman, mostly of the Woodman family. Arranged by format and chronologically therein.
Box/ Folder | Description | Dates |
12/17 | Amsterdam | 1968 May 14-17 |
12/18 | Holland | 1968 May |
12/19 | London and Lake Geneva, Switzerland | 1968 May |
12/20 | Metz and Nancy, France, and Basel, Switzerland | 1968 May |
12/21 | Rhine River: Koblenz and Cologne, Germany, and Luxembourg | 1968 May |
12/22 | Switzerland: Basel, Neuchatel, Lausanne, and Lake Geneva | 1968 May |
12/23 | Prudhoe, Scotland | 1969 |
12/24 | England and Scotland | 1970 |
12/25 | University of Wisconsin and Madison, Wisconsin | 1970 July-August |
12/26 | Arizona: Taleisen West | 1971 August |
12/27 | Paris, France | 1973 |
12/28-29 | Iran trip: Large prints | 1973 |
12/30 | Iran trip: Color prints: Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Caspian Sea | 1973 |
12/31 | Iran trip: Post cards | 1973 |
12/32 | Iran trip: Negatives: Paris, Italy, Belgrade, Istanbul, Tabriz, Teheran, Shiraz, Pasagarde, and Versk | 1973 |
12/33 | New England: Maine and Massachusetts: Woodman Family graves, Evergreen Cemetery, and Alfred, Maine | 1973 April-May |
12/34 | Expo 74, Spokane, Washington | 1974 September |
12/35 | Ketchikan | 1975-1976 |
12/36 | Whitby, England, birthplace of Captain John Cook | 1976 January |
12/37 | England and Scotland | circa 1975-1976 |
12/38 | Europe: Locations include Oslo, Copenhagen, London, Bath, and Salisbury | 1975-1976 |
12/39 | Susitna Valley High School Band at Settlers’ Bay | 1979 December |
12/40 | Dark room, golf course at Elmendorf Air Force Base, and Downtown Anchorage hockey rink | 1977 March-April |
12/41 | Juneau and Douglas Harbor | 1977 June |
12/42 | Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Juneau, and Douglas | 1977 June |
12/43 | Contact Creek, Watson Lake, and Whitehorse: Dedication of historical plaque at Contact Creek on the Alaska Highway | 1977 October |
12/44 | Anchorage Garden Club Captain Cook display | 1978 August 16 |
12/45 | England: Richmond Park and Epsom Downs fair and carnival | 1978 December-1979 January |
12/46 | Columbia Glacier trip on Glacier Queen II | 1980 August |
12/47 | Woodman house winter scenes and Yugoslavian coal ship Sava at Port of Anchorage | 1980 December |
12/48 | England | 1983 |
12/49 | Kent’s wedding | 1984 |
12/50 | Louisbary Fortress historical site | 1985 |
12/51 | Portraits and snapshots of Lyman and Betzi Woodman | undated, 1961, 1973, 1983-1985 |
12/52 | Negatives: Hunting, vacation, dog sledding, Woodman’s with friends | 1960-1962 |
12/53 | Negatives: Inuvik, earthquake in Anchorage, Nabesna, Standard Oil fire and Port of Anchorage, Sitka, Ketchikan | 1963-1967 |
12/54 | Negatives: Camping, fishing, Woodman family, Valdez, Cordova, Bore Tide | 1968 |
12/55 | Negatives: Art Linkletter at Eklutna Camp, BP field office at Prudhoe Bay, Amchitka , Milrow nuclear test, and sea otter transplant | 1969 |
12/56 | Negatives: Buildings, construction, cruise ships | 1970 |
12/57 | Negatives: Amchitka and Cannikin nuclear test, Valdez and Pipeline | 1971 |
12/58 | Negatives: Arctic Motor Freight, barge at Port of Anchorage, U.S. Air Force | 1972 |
12/59 | Negatives: Site Summit radar site, Japanese visit to Fort Richardson | 1973 |
12/60 | Negatives: Dutch Harbor, Kotzebue, Nome | 1974 |
12/61 | Negatives: Bicentennial exhibit, Arctic Gas tour, 4th of July Parade in Anchorage | 1975 |
12/62 | Negatives: Mike Seaver, Joe Redington’s kennel, 3001 Widgeon Lane Anchorage, Independence Mine, Woodman family, Anchorage | 1979-1992 |
13/1 | Haines, Haines Junction, Juneau, and Alaska Ferry Malaspina | 1964 August |
13/2 | Holland | 1968 |
13/3 | England and Scotland | 1969-1970 |
13/4 | Madison, Wisconsin | 1970 July |
13/5-7 | Iran trip | 1973 |
13/8 | Expo 74, Spokane, Washington | 1974 September |
13/9 | Copenhagen, Denmark | 1975 |
13/10 | England | 1975 |
13/11 | Malmo, Sweden | 1975 |
13/12 | Oslo, Norway | 1975 |
13/13 | Whitby, England: Birthplace of Captain Cook (includes description notes) | 1975 |
13/14 | England | 1978 |
13/15 | Canadian mines: Con, Pine Point, Lupin, and Polaris | 1982 July |
13/16 | England and Scotland, including Whitby area | 1983 |
13/17 | Holland | 1983 |
13/18 | Tuktoyaktuk, Canada oilfield | 1983 |
13/19 | Guilin, China | 1984 |
13/20 | Newfoundland, Canada | 1985 |
13/21 | Nova Scotia, Canada | 1985 |
13/22 | Quebec, Canada | 1985 |
13/23 | Greenland | 1985 |
13/24 | Herschel Island and Fort Ross | 1985 |
13/25 | Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada | 1985 |
13/26 | Northwest Passage trip: St. George Island harbor construction, wedding, church, and people | 1986 |
19/25 | Prints and negatives: Kent Lew Seward, Woodmans’ house 117 E. Cook, Keith and Kristan Woodman school pictures | undated 1980-1982 |
OS Folder 2 | Photographs on display in Anchorage Airport prior to 1964 earthquake (U.S. Army photographs): Barter Island DEW-Line Site building in 1957; Part of the While Alice Communications System at Smuggler’s Cove on Annette Island | undated |
OS Folder 2 | Juneau House Guard | 1918 June |
OS Folder 2 | Captain Cook memorial at sunset with Mt. Susitna, Resolution Park, Anchorage | undated |
OS Folder 2 | Portrait of woman with two children | undated |
Part 3. Series 5: Audio recordings; 1966-1971. 0.2 cubic feet.
This series consists of personal audio recordings sent between the Woodmans and their children.
Box/ Folder | Description | Dates |
19/25 | “From Russell Xmas ‘66” | 1966 December |
19/26 | “Tape to Russell by Lyman and Adelaide” | 1967 January 9 |
19/27 | “Betsy tape to Russell & Grace” | 1967 January 15 |
19/28 | “From Russ Sr. to Mom W about trip from Minneapolis to Arizona” | 1967April 30 |
19/29 | “From Russell (re: maybe coming to Alaska)” | 1967 May 8 |
19/30 | “Tape by Lyman, Adelaide, and Betsy to Russ & Grace” | 1967 December 20 |
19/31 | “From Russ Sr.” | 1968 April 12 |
19/32 | “Tape to Russell from Lyman & Adelaide includes Lyman’s account of trip he and Betsy made in Europe” | 1968 June 19 |
19/33 | “From Russ Sr. to us tells of Russ Jr. taking new job & moving to Tucson, Davis-Monthan AFB, from Phoenix” | 1968 October-November |
19/34 | “From Phoenix: Russ Sr. to Mom tells Russ Sr. status in Tucson, and about Russ Sr. experience as a mobile home/trailer salesman, and about trip by him & Grace to Tucson.” | 1968 |
19/35 | “Kent & Nicki” | 1971 November 7 |
19/36 | “Russell Jr.” | undated |