sometimes we say goodbye
Last May, Betsy Tower came to find me in my office one day. Many of you know of Betsy: she was recently inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame. A physician, she moved to Anchorage in 1954 with …
Last May, Betsy Tower came to find me in my office one day. Many of you know of Betsy: she was recently inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame. A physician, she moved to Anchorage in 1954 with …
Yesterday, while working on the blog entry about one of the reasons we don’t buy collections, I wanted to enter a link to the finding aid to the Eric A. Hegg photographs. Since we’re in the process of converting …
In last week’s mail came a rather lavishly illustrated catalog of materials from a documents/photographs/artifacts dealer listing a number of Alaskana items for sale. One of them, a photographic print by Eric A. Hegg, caught my eye. Because we have …
An archivist’s work is never done. Or so it just seems some days. But occasionally projects do end and the one I’m referring to today is our Alan May Aleutian expeditions photographs project. Last year the Alaska State Library and …
I don’t usually like to talk about new collections that have just come in the door. That’s for a very good reason: usually there’s at least a little bit of lag time (depending on the size of the collection or …