Category: 49 History

Sat, September 12, 2020

Before and After the Nineteenth Amendment

By Sue Sherif, Fairbanks, Alaska. Sue is a retired librarian and is a member of the League of Women Voters, which is also marking its 100th anniversary this year. [caption id="attachment_6469" align="alignright" width="300"] The 19th Amendment. Photo courtesy of Sherna Berger Gluck and the Suffragists Project Jukebox.[/caption] August 2020 marks several landmarks in the long struggle for voting rights for women. August 18, 1920 saw the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution by the state legislature of Tennessee,... (Read More)

Fri, April 10, 2020

Covid-19 – Two year Unfinished Project #1 Completed: F/V Age of Reason

By Kathy Peavey, Craig Alaska Mary Ida Henrikson of Ketchikan gifted an original painting by former Craig resident and author, Ballard Hadman, to the Craig Public Library. The painting by Ballard was gifted to former Thorne Bay and Ketchikan author and her friend, Margaret Bell (niece of City of Craig founder, Craig Miller). It was Margaret who gave the painting to Mary. When Mary was in Craig in 2018 promoting her new book The Mystery of the Fire Trees of... (Read More)

Wed, March 13, 2019

The Life of Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher

By: Alyssa Lapka, history student at University of Alaska Anchorage [caption id="attachment_6039" align="alignright" width="286"] Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher, 1909. “The best picture of the Evanston years." B2008.015.1.14.2. Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher Papers; Anchorage Museum, Gift of Robin Rustad.[/caption] In honor of women’s history month and in commemoration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment, there’s no better time to recall the notable and accomplished life of Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher. Here in Alaska, many have grown up in the Matanuska... (Read More)

Mon, December 04, 2017

Tenakee’s Superior Packing Company

By: Vicki Wisenbaugh [caption id="attachment_5607" align="alignleft" width="216"] Bob Pegues[/caption] Note: Tenakee Historical Collection received a grant from the Alaska Historical Society's Alaska Historic Canneries Initiative to catalog a collection of materials from Tenakee Springs' Superior Packing Co. All of the photos in this post come from Tenakee Historical Collection. Bob Pegues was a pillar of the Chichagof Island community of Tenakee Springs for over 40 years. He was part owner and year round caretaker of the ruins of the Superior... (Read More)

Mon, December 04, 2017

The Whitney-Fidalgo Cannery on Ship Creek, Anchorage

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... (Read More)