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Alaska

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

[Two Alaskan totem poles, set against sky.], unknown

 Item — Box 236: Series 1.; Series 2.; Series 4.; Series 5.; Series 8.; Series 9.; Series 11.; Series 12.; Series 13.; Series 16.; Series 18.; Series 19.; Series 20.; Series 21.; Series 22.; Series 23. [Barcode: 35025041937802], item: PH037_H00120_print

Fred D. Van Wagenen letter

 Collection — Multiple collection box [CA 1896 Sept 13] 1: [Barcode: i5010746x]
Identifier: CA 1896 Sept 13
Abstract

The collection contains a letter dated September 13, 1896, from Fred D. Van Wagenen, a lawyer in Seattle, Washington, to his mother (Ann Van Wagenen?) of New York. In the letter, he describes an Alaska mining trip and meeting Father Barnum, a Jesuit missionary and cousin to P.T. Barnum.

Dates: 1896 September 13

[Vessels at Alaska], unknown

 Item — Box 103: Series 21. [Barcode: 35025041981727], item: PH037_SH00019

Jonathan Wagner papers

 Collection — Box 1 : [Barcode: 35025042052494]
Identifier: Ax 369
Abstract

Jonathan Wagner (1873- ?) became superintendent of schools at Las Cruces and Santa Fe, New Mexico, was then elected New Mexico superintendent of public instruction, then elected president of New Mexico Normal University, and from 1923 to 1930, served as chief of the Alaska Division of the U. S. Department of Education. The collection contains scrapbooks of correspondence, clippings, photographs and other material from Wagner's career in education, 1917-1933.

Dates: 1917-1933

Western Union Telegraph Co. transcripts of reports

 Collection — Multiple collection box [B 125] 1: [Barcode: i50031569]
Identifier: B 125
Abstract

This collection contains Western Union Telegraph Co. transcripts of reports of an exploration expedition to the Alaska-Yukon territory, 1865 to 1867.

Dates: 1865-1867