Guide to the John Shipman scrapbook
1964
Collection number: HMC-1018-AHS.
Creator: Shipman, John.
Title: John Shipman scrapbook.
Date: 1964.
Volume of collection: 0.2 cubic feet.
Language of materials: Collection materials are in English.
Collection summary: Scrapbook documenting the Alaska earthquake of 1964.
Biographical note:
John Shipman was an Anchorage resident at the time of the Alaska earthquake in March 1964.
Collection description:
The collection consists of a scrapbook compiled by Anchorage resident John Shipman relating to the Alaska earthquake of 1964. The collection contains twelve letters written to Shipman and his family from concerned friends and relatives; 35 photographs of earthquake damage around Anchorage; publications about the earthquake; and newspaper clippings relating to the military’s role in earthquake cleanup.
Arrangement: All materials organized in the manner in which they were originally presented to the Archives.
Digitized copies: This collection has not been digitized. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact Archives and Special Collections.
Rights note: Archives does not own copyright to this collection.
Preferred citation: John Shipman scrapbook, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.
Related materials: For other materials in the Archives relating to the Alaska earthquake of 1964, see the “1964 Alaska earthquake collections” research guide.
Acquisition note: This collection was presented to the Alaska Historical Society by Michael McDonald in 2000. It was then deposited in the Archives.
Processing information: This collection was described by Kathy Hertel in 2001. The guide to the collection was revised by Megan K. Friedel in 2011.
Container list:
|
Box/Folder |
Description | Date |
| 1/1 | Letters to the Shipman family from friends outside inquiring about the family’s condition after the earthquake | 1964 March-April |
| 1/2 – 1/3 | Photographs and contact prints of earthquake damage in the downtown and Turnagain Heights areas of Anchorage. | 1964 |
| 1/4 | Publications, including Alaska Medicine (Vol. 6, No. 2, June 1964), Alaska Sportsman (June 1964), and Great Alaska Earthquake, A Pictorial Review (1964) | 1964 |
| 1/5 | U.S. Army photographs of earthquake damage from an unknown publication. | 1964 |
| 1/6 | Newspaper clippings | 1964 |