Mon, December 04, 2017
By: Mark LaRiviere Note: The following was written in the Fall of 1976. No salmon canneries remain on Ship Creek today. Below the hustle-bustle of downtown Anchorage, at the mouth of Ship Creek, is the only remaining salmon cannery in upper Cook Inlet. At one time there were two canneries in Anchorage and three in the upper Inlet area, but the days of small, owner operated canneries in Alaska are over and only the Whitney-Fidalgo Seafoods, Inc. Anchorage cannery remains...
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Wed, October 04, 2017
By Larry Hayden [caption id="attachment_5480" align="alignleft" width="225"] United Methodist Historic Site No. 534 plaque to be installed at Alaska Pacific University. Image courtesy Larry Hayden.[/caption] Jesse Lee Home alumnus Rev. P. Gordon Gould, an Aleut from Unga, initiated the effort to establish a university in Alaska in 1948 with the intent of training local people for leadership in local employment. Alaskan communities and businesses provided great sums of money along with the Methodist Church to kick-start the educational institution that...
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Thu, September 07, 2017
The Alaska State Library is pleased to announce that the first batch of selected Alaskan historical newspapers are now on the Library of Congress' Chronicling America website. This includes: 1206 issues of The Alaska Daily Empire (1912-1918), 448 issues of Douglas Island News (1898-1907), and 47 issues of The Thlinget (1908-1912). To check them out go to: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/?state=Alaskaðnicity=&language= A second batch is already on its way to Library of Congress for review, so look for future announcements of when they go...
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Tue, July 18, 2017
By Anjuli Grantham A puffin skin parka. An Alutiiq whaling lance. A can of salmon from Klawock. A mountain howitzer and artillery shell. These are not the kind of artifacts that immediately bring to mind the Treaty of Cession, like William Seward’s cape or Emanuel Leutze’s iconic painting, Purchase of Alaska, might, for example. Nonetheless, as I started researching and producing Alaska Out of the Vault, a podcast that examines Alaska in the decades around the Treaty of Cession, I...
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Mon, July 17, 2017
With a grant from the Alaska Historical Commission, Anjuli Grantham has produced a special podcast called "Alaska Out of the Vault" that examines Alaska in the decades around the Treaty of Cession. It focuses on what was occurring in Alaska--not in Washington, DC--and what themes and transitions were afoot rather than the big, iconic moments that tend to receive the most attention. [caption id="attachment_5253" align="alignright" width="200"] Unangan puffin skin parka, circa 1880s. Photo courtesy of Alaska State Museum.[/caption] Anjuli selected objects...
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