Guide to the Howard Culbertson family scrapbook
1967
Collection number: HMC-0923.
Creator: Howard Culbertson family.
Title: Howard Culbertson family scrapbook.
Dates: 1967.
Volume of collection: 0.3 cubic feet.
Language of materials: Collection materials are in English.
Collection summary: Scrapbook of postcards and tourism flyers from a family who traveled across Canada and Alaska.
Biographical note:
Howard Culbertson and his wife were from Zanesville, Ohio. In 1967 the couple made an extensive tour of Canada and Alaska.
Collection description:
The collection consists of the tourist post card scrapbook of the Culbertson family. The album contains: photographic postcards, tourist photographs, art postcards, travel brochures, maps, program, and other memorabilia. Subjects of the photos include: people, cities, buildings, boats, ships, wildlife, and scenery. Canadian locations include: Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec City, Ottawa, Montreal and Expo67, St. Lawrence Seaway, Niagara Falls, Sault St. Marie Locks, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Waterton Lakes National Park, Banff National Park, Yoho National Park, Banff Jasper Highway, Jasper National Park, Victoria, Prince George, Prince Rupert, Dawson and Whitehorse. Alaska locations include: Inside Passage with Alaska State Ferries M.V. Matanuska, Taku and Bartlett, Ketchikan, Richardson Highway, Alaska Highway, Haines and Chilkat Dancers, North Pole, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Matanuska Glacier, Portage Glacier, Matanuska Valley, Mt. McKinley National Park, Brooks Range, King Island, Juneau, Mendenhall Glacier, Glacier Bay, Valdez and Columbia Glacier. Ohio locations include Lake Hope State Park and Ohio University.
Arrangement: The contents of the scrapbook are in geographic order as the Culbertsons traveled across Canada into Alaska.
Digitized copies: This collection has not been digitized. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact Archives and Special Collections.
Rights note: Collection materials are subject to copyright which is not held by the Archives.
Preferred citation: Howard Culbertson family scrapbook, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.
Acquisition note: The collection was purchased at internet auction by the Archives in 2006.
Processing information: This collection was described by Jeffrey Sinnott in 2006. The guide to the collection was reformatted to current standard by Arlene Schmuland in 2018.