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 …
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 …
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 …
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.…
We archivists at the Consortium Library know well how hard it can be to find archival resources on whatever your research topic may be. That’s partly due to the nature of archival collections: they’re unique and they can be voluminous …
This month marks the end of the 2020-2021 academic year and the start of the 2021-2022 year. In the “invisible labor” category, Gwen has been working diligently on her 4th year comprehensive faculty review file, as well as continuing her …
We recently learned about two great websites created by our researchers:
WWII Alaska: The Second World War dramatically impacted the Alaskan territory and all of its people. Explore firsthand stories from Alaska Native elders …
Our March-April edition is running a little late! But here you go:
Newly available collections:
EPH-0452: COVID19 vaccination materials, 2021.
William Murry papers; 1917-1944. HMC-1366-AHS. Memorabilia collected by an early Anchorage resident.
Billy Roberts papers; 1946-1947. HMC-1368. Memorabilia from …
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 …
