Here are a few more pieces from our guest curators for Eye of the Beholder II. Behnaaz Irani, a UAA graduate student and a library worker at the time, was inspired to write a poem. Ode to a Sourdough By Behnaaz. I There was a foregone time, Perhaps in…
It’s coming up on the end of the fiscal year, traditionally a time when I try to finish off projects or clean up my office. In that spirit, I’ve been meaning to go online with some of our Eye of the Beholder exhibits. For those of you who watch this…
Like most archives, we have a few collections with materials in them that are starting to age, and age badly. One example of that is the Frederick John Date papers: most of what is in the collection is in great shape, but the photograph albums, not so much. Some of…
History is not just about the big names, it is also about the small names. In 2005 Archives and Special Collections bought a letter at internet auction to add to our collections. It documents the experience of a male in the military during World War II. It, however, does…
Click on it to see it bigger! And since we’d be bad archivists if we didn’t cite our own stuff… Clockwise from the upper left: 1. Captains Glenn & Culp, near Portage Bay, 1898. Photographer: Walter C. Mendenhall. Edwin F. Glenn papers. 2. Fur Rendezvous Queen, 1958. Photographer: Donald Arthur…
George T. Harperwas born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1930. In 1981, he moved to Anchorage from Oregon to work as a computer programmer for the Bureau of Land Management. After his retirement in 1990, he ran a consulting business called, “One on One PC Consulting.” In addition, Harper devoted more…
Just before the new year, I was working with some additions to our collection of records from the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company, the company that ran Independence Mine at Hatcher Pass. Tucked into an oversize folder at the end of the collection, I found this gem: This photo is…
One of the things about having students in to do research is that we often don’t get to see what becomes of the research they do. That’s not really a complaint, by the way, it’s just the way things go. Back when I was a university student, by the time…
Alaska Defense Command, Alaska District shoulder patch, circa 1942. Anchorage Fur Rendezvous parade, 1958. Fred Fickett, Signal Corps. 1882, Virginia. Helicopter landing at US Army Arctic Test Board, 1962. Private Billy B. Johnson, US First Infantry Division, Company E, 18th Infantry, Honor Guard, checkpoint post, Frankfurt,…
We’ve had students in an anthropology class working in the Archives this semester on a variety of projects having to do with the Independence Mine (Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company records, to be more precise.) They’ve been a really fun crew to have around. We had a request from one…
