At a bit of a loss for a current blog entry today, I (Arlene) decided to tell one of my favorite stories from working here. I’ve read (Terry Pratchett) that opera works on the catastrophe curve: everything that could go wrong miraculously fails to do so. We had one of…
Deborah Tharp is one of our researchers who has been utilizing photographs in our collection in some creative ways. Below is a composite photograph she created using images from our National Geographic Society Katmai Expeditions photograph collection. The photographs she used can be found on the Alaska Digital Archives, uaa-hmc-0186-volume3-1831…
Today I (Arlene) finished description to a collection we received a couple of months ago. Having this description finished and posted on our website basically makes the collection available to our research audience. It’s a small collection, but it’s important, but maybe not for the reasons you might think.…
Recently we were offered a Bunch of Boxes, gently used, from another archival facility in town. They’d emptied them out and simply didn’t have the storage space to keep them on the off chance that they might need them again some day. So the archivists gave us a call and…
[Note from September 2018: Due to a cost increase for PicturingUAA, all images that were once available on PicturingUAA have been moved to Alaska’s Digital Archives. We also have many more images within our physical holdings. Please contact us if you have any questions.] Periodically we get requests from people…
Usually my (Arlene’s) office is a pretty accurate barometer of my work life. The more things going on, the more disastrous–and I mean that word very literally–my office looks. But today was cleaning day. Not because I had anything less going on. In fact, technically this was supposed to be…
Today’s guest artist: Kathy. To start this entry I should do a quick update on how Marty and I have been faring these past couple of weeks with our Anchorage-Stuttgart partnership. Working in our offices and communicating by e-mail we continue to make progress. Using the great digital images Marty…
Today’s entry is by Arlene. I’m feeling a little self-indulgent today as my vacation time is coming to a rapid end. Since Nicole has shared some of her favorite excerpts from the Edwin Glenn diary, I’d like to share mine. Keep in mind, I haven’t read the whole diary. I…
Today’s guest artist: Nicole. An early global warming advocate, as recorded by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, Oct 21, 1898: I told him [Hanmore] of the country traversed by me and particularly of the Madanuska [sic: Matanuska] Valley as an agricultural location which he concurred it but seemed to think that…
Today’s guest artist: Mariecris. Growing up as a little girl I loved watching musicals! I hoped one day to go to New York City and see a real Broadway musical. While I lived in Boston I only made two trips to New York and did not see one play. (Sadly…
