Iñupiaq men in qayaqs, Noatak, Alaska, circa 1929. Edward S. Curtis Collection, Library of Congress Digital Collections.
Crossing the Chilkoot Pass, circa 1898. Courtesy Candy Waugaman and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.
The Gold Rush boomtown of Nome on the Seward Peninsula, 1900. Courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library.
Alaska Historic Canneries Initiative: Preserving the Past of a Vital Industry “I was born and raised in Yakutat where Libby, McNeil and subsequent owners operated a salmon cannery for decades in a facility which is still used for salmon and seafood processing today. I also have worked for the “Cannery” and fished commercially. Yakutat’s history […]
by Rachel Mason I came back to Kodiak two months before the March 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill to do ethnographic fieldwork for my dissertation on the occupational culture of commercial fishing. I had been going to graduate school in Virginia. When my Kodiak friends, who knew me as a cab driver and before that […]
Alaska History, Vol. 28, #1, Spring 2013 Alaskana is an annotated listing of recent publications on the North featured in Alaska History, the journal of the Alaska Historical Society. Compiled by Teressa Williams, Anchorage Museum. Dean J. Adams, Four Thousand Hooks: A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska (Seattle: […]
Alaska History, Vol. 26, #1, Spring 2011 Alaskana is an annotated listing of recent publications on the North featured in Alaska History, the journal of the Alaska Historical Society. Compiled by Teressa Williams, Anchorage Museum. Hall Anderson, Still Rainin’ Still Dreamin’: Hall Anderson’s Ketchikan (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010), 118 pp., softcover, $35.00, ISBN 9781889963907. A […]
Alaska History, Vol. 21, #1, Spring 2006 (issued April 2006) Alaskana is an annotated listing of recent publications on the North featured in Alaska History, the journal of the Alaska Historical Society. Compiled by Bruce Merrell, Alaska Bibliographer at the Z. J. Loussac Library in Anchorage. Margaret B. Blackman, Upside Down: Seasons among the Nunamiut […]
