2021 got off to an interesting start, when the Archives vault suffered a leak that resulted in hundreds of boxes having to be removed from the vault and some materials rehoused into dry boxes. With help from the Access Services, …
Here’s some of the things we accomplished in the Archives over the past two months.
107 images from the George Madsen photographs. George Madsen owned the Polar Bar in Nome, Alaska.
47 images from the Francis …
Along with collecting archival materials ourselves, we also serve as the archives for the Alaska Historical Society. When they receive gifts of archival materials, they bring those gifts to us and we care for and provide access to them.
Recently …
We remain working a mixed schedule of working from home and being in the Archives. We’ve had regular on-site appointments with students (UAA, APU, & UAF and beyond!) and community members. And we continue virtual research appointments via videoconferencing, and …
With a lot of our April time being dedicated to working from home, we’ve been focusing on keeping up with reference requests and putting digitized materials online.
But first up, we won an award! We won the 2020 John Sessions …
Dr. Jennifer Stone of the UAA English department held her A476: History of English Language student posters presentations in the Archives. The students shared posters and presented on their research topics, many of which were based on documents …
Our researchers in November included UAA students, Anchorage community members, Alaskans, a variety of people from across the United States, and a professor visiting from Norway. Topics of research included the performing arts in Anchorage, maritime history, Arctic …
September was our first month with reduced hours. If you’re wondering why we have reduced access hours, it’s because one of our archivists left in late August and several years of University budget cuts have meant a hiring freeze for …
Veronica has moved on to a great new job in the Lower 48: Farewell, Veronica, safe travels, and we wish you all the best!
Change of hours: Due to several years of budget cuts at the Consortium …
July was a busy month for us, with a bunch of new special collections, university records, and ephemera being processed and described. We added our first batch of digitized audio and video from Veronica’s Atwood Foundation grant to Alaska’s Digital …
