Category: Photographs
Calling all birders
Are you a student, staff, or faculty member at UAA* or APU? Do you know your Alaskan birds? Here’s the chance to show off your birding skills!
As part of the Loren Taft retrospective exhibit at Archives & Special Collections, …
Loren Taft: a retrospective
George Harper’s “Blacks in Alaska History” exhibit.
The Hatcher Pass Ski Resort That Never Was
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 …
Even if you ask
Every so often we’ll find something in a collection that really resonates with us and the work we do. For me (Arlene), this week, that was a letter. The letter was pasted into an album of photographs kept by A. …
if a photo is worth 1000 words, how much does the caption count for?
Photos in the Archives: Stereoscopes
Who is that guy, anyhow? Or: when documentation fails
Yesterday, while working on the blog entry about one of the reasons we don’t buy collections, I wanted to enter a link to the finding aid to the Eric A. Hegg photographs. Since we’re in the process of converting …
To buy or not to buy
In last week’s mail came a rather lavishly illustrated catalog of materials from a documents/photographs/artifacts dealer listing a number of Alaskana items for sale. One of them, a photographic print by Eric A. Hegg, caught my eye. Because we have …
Calling all birders
Are you a student, staff, or faculty member at UAA* or APU? Do you know your Alaskan birds? Here’s the chance to show off your birding skills!
As part of the Loren Taft retrospective exhibit at Archives & Special Collections, …
Loren Taft: a retrospective
George Harper’s “Blacks in Alaska History” exhibit.
The Hatcher Pass Ski Resort That Never Was

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 …
Even if you ask

Every so often we’ll find something in a collection that really resonates with us and the work we do. For me (Arlene), this week, that was a letter. The letter was pasted into an album of photographs kept by A. …
if a photo is worth 1000 words, how much does the caption count for?
Photos in the Archives: Stereoscopes
Who is that guy, anyhow? Or: when documentation fails
Yesterday, while working on the blog entry about one of the reasons we don’t buy collections, I wanted to enter a link to the finding aid to the Eric A. Hegg photographs. Since we’re in the process of converting …
To buy or not to buy
In last week’s mail came a rather lavishly illustrated catalog of materials from a documents/photographs/artifacts dealer listing a number of Alaskana items for sale. One of them, a photographic print by Eric A. Hegg, caught my eye. Because we have …