Sun, February 09, 2014
From the Alaska State Library comes news of “Heritage of Alaska,” a 1968 television and radio series, that is now digitized and available online at:http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cdmg21/id/15858Twenty-four of the original thirty-six episodes are held by ASL Historical Collections. Titles include “The Capital Move,” “Flying North,” and “The Story of Attu Baskets.”Presented by the National Bank of Alaska, “Heritage of Alaska” was created by Elmer Rasmuson and hosted by Rasmuson and Roger Laube. The series’ five-minute episodes highlighted various Alaskan subjects in history,...
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Wed, February 05, 2014
by Richard Ravalli, William Jessup UniversityThis image of a sealskin coat with sea otter trim was included in an 1893-1894 season catalog of H. Liebes and Company. It depicts a time when the San Francisco-based furrier founded by German-Jewish immigrant Herman Liebes was expanding its influence in the Pacific fur trade. Conversely, it was also a time when sea otters were beginning to disappear from Pacific waters. Decades of hunting facilitated by American trade ships after the Alaska Purchase of...
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Tue, January 21, 2014
by Rebecca Poulson The five buildings of the Sheldon Jackson College quadrangle were built in 1911. The school began in 1878 as a Presbyterian mission, and retained its Presbyterian affiliation even as it became an independent four-year college. We came close to losing these buildings, when the college closed in disarray in 2007. (For the story of how they were saved, check out: https://www.fineartscamp.org/historic-campus.html I love these handsome buildings, especially the light-filled spaces of the Richard H. Allen Memorial auditorium...
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Mon, January 13, 2014
By Rebecca Poulson A number of years ago, a photographer working with the E. W. Merrill collection at Sheldon Jackson College made photographic prints from some of the glass plate negatives; this summer, Sitkan Lynne Chassin donated this print, of the Tom & Al careened on the beach of Sitka Channel, to the Sitka Maritime Heritage Society. The Tom & Al on the beach at Sitka. (E. W. Merrill) The location is the beach of what is now Katlian Street...
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Wed, December 18, 2013
By Sara Piasecki Earlier this year, when the Alaska Association for Historic Preservation announced the state’s Ten Most Endangered Historic Properties for 2013, they included “Historic Canneries (Statewide)” as location number 10. Responding to this call, the Bob and Evangeline Atwood Alaska Resource Center of the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center tasked its summer interns with creating a guide to historic photographs of Alaskan canneries held in the Museum’s archives. The resulting 16-page document has already been updated three times since...
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