Guide to the Joe Josephson papers
circa 1983-1988
Collection number: HMC-0409.
Creator: Josephson, Joe (Joseph Paul).
Title: Joe Josephson papers.
Dates: circa 1983-1988.
Volume of collection: 47.0 cubic feet.
Language of materials: Collection materials in English.
Collection summary: The Alaskan senatorial papers of an attorney and legislator.
Biographical note:
Joseph Paul Josephson, an Anchorage attorney, served in the Alaska State Legislature in the Senate from 1983 to 1988.
Collection description:
The collection includes Mr. Josephson’s legislative files from approximately 1983 to 1988. It includes subject files, issues files, correspondence, and bill files. Topics include agriculture, insurance, labor matters, the Permanent Fund Dividend, health, education, social services, and many other subjects under legislative consideration. Types of records include correspondence, bill files, speeches, reports, and audiotapes.
Arrangement: The collection is sorted primarily by record type or subject. The files are generally arranged in alphabetical order within those groupings. The content of many of the groupings overlap. For example, the legislative subject files contain bill files and correspondence as well.
Digitized copies: This collection has not been digitized. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact Archives and Special Collections.
Rights note: Copyright to some materials in the collection may not be held by the Archives.
Preferred citation: Joe Josephson papers, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.
Folder list: An extensive handwritten folder list is available through the Archives.
Custodial history: The papers were originally held by the Anchorage Public Library and transferred to Archives and Special Collections in 1993.
Acquisition note: A deed of gift was signed by Mr. Josephson in 1993.
Processing information: This preliminary description to the collection was written by Arlene Schmuland in 2011. Publications, grey literature, confidential personnel records and copies of court proceedings were removed in 2015. Many of the publications were moved to the Alaskana collection of the Consortium Library. This collection description is in process: the container list is being expanded to folder level.
Container list:
| Box/Folder | Description |
| 1-15 | Legislative subject files |
| 1/2 | Agriculture |
| 1/3 | SB 472 Transfer of Matanuska Maid |
| 1/4 | SB 105 Sale of milk products |
| 1/5 | SB 484 Restructuring debt of dairy farmers |
| 1/6 | Agriculture bills |
| 1/7 | Air fares |
| 1/8 | Indirect correspondence |
| 1/9 | Correspondence (unanswered) |
| 1/10 | Air fares 1987-1988 |
| 1/11 | Press releases |
| 1/12 | Answered correspondence |
| 1/13 | Airfare hearing |
| 1/14 | Form correspondence |
| 1/15 | Airlines, stock research |
| 1/16 | Airplanes/airports |
| 1/17 | Airports/aircraft |
| 1/18 | Wien Airlines |
| 1/19 | SCR 5: Promotion and marketing of state international airports |
| 1/20 | SJR 36: Service by Korean Air Lines |
| 1/21 | SJR 47: “Happy Face” Alaska Airlines |
| 1/22 | SJR 54: Alaska Airlines to fly to Siberia |
| 1/23 | SJR 56: FAA redescribe air defense Id. Zones north of L. 48 |
| 1/24 | SR 32: Federal registration of aircraft |
| 1/25 | HJR 46: Size of letters on aircraft |
| 1/26 | Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) |
| 1/27 | SERC: AIDEA |
| 1/28 | SB 392 Delinquent loans of AIDEA |
| 1/29 | SB 471: AIDEA business loans/refinance debt |
| 1/30 | HB 402: AIDEA |
| 1/31 | SJR 7: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) |
| 1/32 | SR 13: ANWR caribou herd (Porcupine) |
| 1/33 | ANWR correspondence |
| 1/34 | ANWR research materials |
| 1/35 | Alaska Division of Oil and Gas critique of the proposed ANWR land exchange |
| 1/36 | Performing Arts Center |
| 1/37 | Alaska Repertory Theatre |
| 1/38 | Arts 1987 and 1988 |
| 1/39 | Arts funding FY86 |
| 1/40 | Arts budget |
| 2-15 | Legislative subject files |
| 16-18 | Issues files |
| 19-24 | Health, education, and social services (HESS) in-depth files |
| 25 | HESS conference files |
| 26 | Education in-depth files |
| 27-28 | HESS general issues files |
| 29-32 | Reading files |
| 33 | Miscellaneous correspondence |
| 34 | References and recommendations
Interims and moves records Political news stories Odds and ends Citations |
| 34-35 | Speeches and press releases |
| 35 | Major travels records
NCSL meeting records Democratic Policy Commission records National State Legislators conference records D.C. conference records Interim JPJ schedule Legislative Budget and Audit Committee records |
| 36-39 | Budget records |
| 40-44 | Legislative bill files |
| 45 | Governor’s Interim Committee on Children and Youth records |
| 46-47 | Impeachment records |
| 48 | Audiotapes |