It’s pretty uncommon for one of our collection pickups to take us outside of southcentral Alaska and involve sea-going vessels and airplanes, but in July, we did just that! The Museum of the Aleutians in Unalaska had a large collection of materials from Bill Laughlin which they wanted to transfer…
Newly described and updated: EPH-0470: Anchorage Opera Il barbiere di Siviglia performance recording; 2000 April 13. EPH-0470 EPH-0482: All Saints Episcopal Church (Anchorage, Alaska) “Alaska Fishermen’s Hymn;” 1983. HMC-0525: Tony Simola photograph album; 1934-1949. The original order of the collection was re-established and the guide updated by Shu Mayer. HMC-1256:…
Thanks, first, to Access Services! We’ve been very grateful to have time loaned to us by the Library’s Access Services department. Many days over the past several months, we have had a few hours of their staff time and they’ve been working away at a very complex, disorganized, and not…
We’ve been on hiatus with our archives-themed cooking events for a few years, but it looks like it might just be time to bring it back to life. You might recall the Chilkoot Challenge in which we took the grocery list for Klondike stampeders and challenged folks to make food…
Grants & Alaska’s Digital Archives: Donald Mitchell oral histories recordings and transcriptions digitized and placed online in the Alaska’s Digital Archives: Joe and Carolyn Begich, Frank Bracken, Maurice Carmody, Roy Peratrovich, Hugh Gallagher, 2 interviews with Emil Notti, and 2 interviews with Victor Fischer. This ongoing project has been funded…
In our ongoing series of questions asked by History students at UAA: In the modern social media era, a lot of things are exclusively digital. How do you foresee the preservation of such content in an official archival setting? This is a great question because this is a challenge that…
Another from the set of questions we received from students in a UAA History class. Do all pieces of historical documents stay in the archives indefinitely? Or for when you make an electronic version of a document, what happens to the original paper copy? In most cases they what…
Last week we received some great questions from some History majors here at UAA about what we do. Gwen spent a lot of time answering them (and then Arlene spent time making Gwen’s answers even longer) and we thought they were such terrific questions, that we’d share them here, one…
Use of materials Laurie Arnold and Miki‘ala Ayau Pescaia published “Considering the Revolution: Indigenous Histories and Memory in Alaska, Hawai‘i, and the Indigenous Plateau” in the November 2021 issue of The Public Historian. The article included this image from the Charles Lucier papers. …
Use of materials The Anchorage Daily News used some our Anchorage Organizing Committee records in their ongoing series Curious Alaska: this entry about past attempts to bring the Olympics to Anchorage. Gwen appears in a few of the photographs. The Fairbanks North Star Borough Emergency Operations Department used a 1964…
