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Ted C. Hinckley papers

Collection Inventory


Series I: The Canoe Rocks files circa 1857-1995

Series II: Sheldon Jackson files circa 1789-1996

Series III: John G. Brady files circa 1853-1982

Series IV: Alaska subject files  circa 1867-1990

Series V: Non-Alaska subject files circa 1867-1975

 


Series I: The Canoe Rocks: Alaska’s Tlingit and the Euro American Frontier, 1800-1912 (circa 1857-1995)

This series consists of reference materials collected and filed by Ted C. Hinckley in the process of writing The Canoe Rocks. The creator of the collection arranged his files according to how he used the materials for the publication. The original order has been maintained. The collection includes materials cited in various drafts, reworks, and the final draft, and sources referenced but not cited. The reference materials consist of both primary and secondary source documents. Series I is divided into sub-series by chapter, except for the final sub-series which is comprised of reference materials on specific subjects.

Box 1

Sub-series One: Preface (circa 1954-1982)


1/1 Reference materials, circa 1954-1982

Sub-series Two: “The Tlingit Defeat the Iron Man” (circa 1911-1987)

1/2 Reference materials cited in final draft, circa 1911-1975
1/3 Reference materials used in rework, circa 1954-1987
1/4 Reference materials cited in drafts but later removed, circa 1967
1/5 Reference materials not cited, circa 1985

Sub-series Three: “Blows from the Acculturation Hammer” (circa 1868-1995)

1/6 Reference materials cited, circa 1868-1995
1/7 Reference materials regarding whites’ views of nature, circa 1869-1950
1/8 Reference materials not cited, circa 1925-1987

Sub-series Four: “A Double Eagle, a Lion and a Unicorn, and a Bald Eagle” (circa 1868-1987)

1/9 Reference materials cited, circa 1868-1987
1/10 Reference materials cited, circa 1886-1971
1/11 Reference materials not cited, circa 1833-1972

Sub-series Five: “Boomers’ Dreams and Harsh Realities” (circa 1857-1987)

1/12 Reference materials cited, circa 1859-1987
1/13 Reference materials cited, circa 1857-1958
1/14 Reference materials used in rework but not used in final, circa 1867-1958
1/15 Reference materials not cited, circa 1865-1983

Sub-series Six: “Firewater and Fire Boats” (1867-1994)

1/16 Reference materials cited, circa 1867-1994
1/17 Reference materials cited, circa 1867-1990
1/18 Reference materials cited regarding Kake Strike, circa 1867-1897

Sub-series Seven: “The Army Interlude” (circa 1860-1984)

1/19 Reference materials cited, circa 1869-1984
1/20 Reference materials not cited, circa 1860-1960

Box 2

Sub-series Eight: “Power Abhors a Vacuum” (circa 1869-1964)


2/1 Reference materials cited, circa 1869-1882
2/2 Reference materials not cited, circa 1875-1964

Sub-series Nine: “Bible, Bullets, and Beardslee” (circa 1870-1909)

2/3 Reference materials cited, circa 1870-1880
2/4 Reference materials not cited, circa 1878-1909

Sub-series Ten: “Construction and Destruction” (circa 1879-1984)

2/5 Reference materials cited, circa 1879-1900
2/6 Reference materials cited, circa 1881-1985
2/7 Reference materials not cited, circa 1884-1984

Sub-series Eleven: “Governors without Uniforms” (circa 1870-1984)

2/8 Reference materials cited, circa 1882-1902
2/9 Reference materials cited, circa 1884-1984
2/10 Reference materials not cited, circa 1870-1906

Sub-series Twelve: “Beasts of Burden, Willing Workers, or What?” (circa 1868-1975)

2/11 Reference materials cited, circa 1869-1975
2/12 Reference materials cited, circa 1870-1945
2/13 Reference materials not cited, circa 1868-1904

Sub-eries Thirteen: “Urbanization” (circa 1879-1990)

2/14 Reference materials cited, circa 1879-1970
2/15 Reference materials regarding C.H. Edwards killing, circa 1892
2/16 Reference materials not cited, circa 1883-1978
2/17 Draft of Chapter 12: “Urbanization,” circa 1990

Box 3

Sub-series Fourteen: “Missionaries and Teachers” (circa 1870-1979)

3/1 Reference materials cited, circa 1881-1979
3/2 Reference materials cited, circa 1876-1977
3/3 Reference materials not cited, circa 1870-1970

Sub-series Fifteen: “Preservation Anomalies” (circa 1862-1979)

3/4 Reference materials cited, circa 1862-1975
3/5 Reference materials cited, circa 1869-1910
3/6 Reference materials not cited, circa 1878-1979
3/7 Reference materials not cited, circa 1875-1975

Sub-series Sixteen: “Ambiguous Allies for Native Rights” (circa 1890-1976)

3/8 Reference materials cited, circa 1890-1976
3/9 Reference materials cited, circa 1900-1960
3/10 Reference materials cited, circa 1900-1905
3/11 Reference materials not cited, circa 1890-1970

Box 4

Sub-series Seventeen: “Sustenance and Symbols” (circa 1870-1990)


4/1 Reference materials cited, circa 1910-1990
4/2 Reference materials not cited, circa 1870-1970

Subseries Eighteen: “A Societal Scrambling” (circa 1875-1980)

4/3 Reference materials cited, circa 1900-1980
4/4 Reference materials cited, circa 1906-1969
4/5 Reference materials not cited, circa 1875-1975
4/6 Reference materials not cited, circa 1903-1965
4/7 Reference materials not cited, circa 1885-1915
4/8 Reference materials not used, circa 1903-1976

Subseries Nineteen: “Conclusion” (circa 1850-1988)

4/9 Reference materials cited, circa 1850-1985
4/10 Reference materials not cited but including notes on how they could have been used, circa 1910-1988

Box 5

Subseries Twenty: Other Canoe Rocks Files by Subject (circa 1868-1987)

5/1 Health and Disease, circa 1884-1972
5/2 Women, circa 1892-1986
5/3 Tlingit, circa 1870-1967
5/4 Illustrative materials, circa 1868-1987
5/5 Photographs and negatives, circa 1880-1980

Series II: Sheldon Jackson Materials (circa 1789-1996)

The series is divided into sub-series according to specific subject headings as assigned by Ted C. Hinckley. Some of the sub-series have been divided further according to more detailed subjects and, in some places, according to a chronological scheme. For the most part, the series’ original order has been maintained. Sub-series II consists of reference materials on specific subjects related to Presbyterian missionary Sheldon Jackson, who was instrumental in establishing an educational system and schools in territorial Alaska. Hinckley contracted with Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska to write a biography about the individual.

Box 6

Sub-series One: Publications about Jackson (circa 1870-1985)


6/1 Articles by Sheldon Jackson, 1886-1899
6/2 Hinckley articles about Sheldon Jackson, circa 1965-1985
6/3 Other articles about Sheldon Jackson, circa 1899-1979
6/4-6/7 Reference materials for publications, circa 1870-1980

Sub-series Two: Biographical/Historical (circa 1834-1996)

Sheldon Jackson biographical notes

6/8 Undated
6/9 1834-1868
6/10 1869-1879
6/11 1877-1883
6/12 1880-1909
6/13 “Red Letter Days” – Sheldon Jackson journal entries, 1856-1901
6/14 Jackson’s involvement in the Civil War, 1865

Sheldon Jackson College

6/15 Historical Materials, 1868-1967
6/16 Materials for Hinckley article about Sheldon Jackson College, circa 1960- 1970
6/17 Correspondence about Hinckley’s Sheldon Jackson College article, 1967- 1972
6/18 Hinckley relationship with Sheldon Jackson College, 1975
6/19 Issue of Adventures, Sheldon Jackson College publication, 1996

6/20 Other biographies, 1980-1982

Box 7

7/1 Presbyterian Historical Society annual reports, 1945-1987
7/2 Religion in the United States – reference material, 1961-1984
7/3 Religion in the United State – reference material, 1985-1998
7/4 Religious activism and the American Indian, 1975-1985
7/5 Library and Archives of the Scotch-Irish Foundation, 1979-1988


Churches

7/6 U.S., non-Presbyterian, circa 1800-1900
7/7 U.S., Presbyterian, circa 1800-1850
7/8 U.S., Presbyterian, circa 1850-1900
7/9 Alaska, circa 1850-1900

Sub-series Three: Correspondence (1883-1909)

7/10 1883-1909
7/11 1880-1909
7/12 1893-1905

Box 8

Sub-series Four: Missions and Missionary Work (circa 1789-1985)

Non-Alaska

8/1-8/2 Background information, circa 1887-1964
8/3 Women missionaries, circa 1868-1967
8/4 Presbyterian Home Mission, circa 1789-1923
8/5 Board of Foreign and Home Missions, 1877-1879
8/6 Missionary work outside of Alaska, circa 1821-1982
8/7 Western missions, circa 1872-1883
8/8 Presbytery in Utah, circa 1872-1945
8/9 Presbytery in Colorado, circa 1864-1970
8/10 Presbytery in Arizona and New Mexico, circa 1870-1985
8/11 The Rocky Mountain Presbytery – Sheldon Jackson’s publication, circa 1874-1986

Box 9

Alaska

9/1 Presbytery of Alaska, circa 1883-1966
9/2 Alaska missionaries, circa 1890-1970
9/3 Missionaries and Alaska Natives, circa 1886-1896
9/4 Praise for missionary work in Alaska, circa 1890-1978

Sub-series Five: Education and schools (circa 1870-1948)

General information

9/5 1880-1886
9/6 1887-1913

9/7 Public school system, 1870-1905
9/8 Problems with schools, circa 1880-1905
9/9 Teachers in Alaska, circa 1880-1905
9/10 “Sectarian strife and Catholic dread,” 1887-1891
9/11 Sheldon Jackson College in Utah, 1895-1903
9/12 Westminster College, circa 1890-1948
9/13 Carlisle School, 1880-1881


Box 10

Sub-series Six: Professional career (1880-1906)


10/1 General Agent of Education, 1880-1906
10/2 Salary and location, 1888-1890
10/3 Insecurity and adversity, circa 1880-1905
10/4 Grand Jury investigation, 1899

Sub-series Seven: Government, law and politics (circa 1878-1905)

10/5 General information, 1878-1903
10/6 Organic Act, 1884
10/7 Lobbyist and Alaskan Advocate, circa 1877-1905
10/8 Congressional delegation, 1900-1905
10/9 Politics, circa 1880-1900
10/10 Governor Lyman Knapp, circa 1892
10/11 Governor James Sheakley, circa 1894

Sub-series Eight: Alaska Natives (circa 1869-1975)

10/12 General information, circa 1869-1975
10/13 Education, circa 1875-1981
10/14 Land rights and reservations, circa 1889-1971

Sub-series Nine: Subject files (circa 1868-1975)

10/15 Agriculture, circa 1890-1900
10/16 Alaskan Society of Natural History and Ethnology, circa 1868-1906
10/17 Liquor, circa 1874-1904
10/18 Nelson Act, 1905
10/19 Reindeer, circa 1891-1975
10/20 Relationship with John G. Brady, 1890-1967

Series III: John Green Brady materials (circa 1853-1982)

Series III contains reference materials related to Alaskan Governor John G. Brady, about whom Ted C. Hinckley wrote and published a biography. The series is divided into sub-series according to specific subject headings as assigned by Hinckley. Some of the sub-series have been divided further according to more detailed subjects and, in some places, according to a chronological scheme. For the most part, the series’ original order has been maintained.

Box 11

Sub-series One: Publications and lectures about Brady (circa 1896-1982)


11/1 Article by Hinckley "Alaskan John G. Brady: Missionary, Businessman, Judge, and Governor 1878-1918," 1975 (includes reference materials)
11/2 “Are We Truly More Heathen than the Natives: John G. Brady and the Assimilation of Alaska’s Tlingit Indians,” Hinckley lecture, 1978
11/3 Articles written by John G. Brady about Alaska, 1896-1911
11/4 Illustrative materials for John G. Brady biography by Hinckley, circa 1982

Sub-series Two: Historical/Biographical reference materials (circa 1848-1973)

11/5 Family genealogy, 1888-1964
11/6 Hugh P. Brady oral history, July 12, 1973
11/7 Education at seminary and Yale College, circa 1870s
11/8 Arrival in Alaska, 1878
11/9 Reference notes, 1848-1918

Sub-series Three: Correspondence (1887-1906)

11/10 General, 1887-1906
11/11 Family, 1887-1906

Sub-series Four: Government and politics (circa 1879-1905)

11/12 Canadian-Alaskan Boundary Dispute, 1879-1899
11/13 Captain Whitford, the steamship Leo, and the Sitka Trading Company, 1886-1893
11/14 Carter Bill, 1899
11/15 Clemency cases, 1899-1904
11/16 Insane care, 1900-1905
11/17 Judge Wickersham, 1902-1905
11/18 Land Law, circa 1862-1903
11/19 Lobbying, circa 1891-1903
11/20 Military, 1890-1899
11/21 Political positions, circa 1890-1900
11/22 Revenue Cutter Service, 1868-1883

Box 12

Sub-series Five: Professional career (circa 1875-1918)


12/1 Friends and support, 1875-1906
12/2 Brady as judge and lawyer, 1878-1918
12/3 Activities as Governor, 1897-1905
12/4 Congressional delegate, 1900-1905
12/5 “Immediate Governor,” 1897
12/6 Law enforcement, 1899-1906
12/7 Liquor law, 1899-1906
12/8 Politics, 1899-1906
12/9 Capitol move to Juneau, 1905-1906
12/10 Governor A.P. Swineford, circa 1886-1889
12/11 Opposition to Governor Brady, 1902-1905
12/12 Questions for Governor Brady, 1905
12/13 Reynolds-Alaska Development Company, 1905-1910
12/14 Special inspection and Frank C. Churchill report, 1906
12/15 Resignation of Governor Brady, 1906

Sub-series Six: Later years (1906-1918)

12/16 Activities post-Governor, 1906-1918
12/17 Return to Sitka, 1913
12/18 Final years, 1911-1918

Box 13

Sub-series Seven: Alaska Development (1853-1910)


13/1 Conservation and resource management, circa 1901-1902
13/2 E.H. Harriman expedition, 1899
13/3 Industry and commerce, 1893-1903
13/4 Lumber mills, 1853-1900
13/5 Mining - Yukon and Klondike, 1878-1900
13/6 Populating Alaska, 1893-1902
13/7 Railroads, 1891-1914
13/8 Transportation, 1904-1910

Sub-series Eight: Alaska Natives (circa 1870-1905)

13/9 General, 1899-1911
13/10 Natives’ condition, 1878-1906
13/11 Liquor abuse, 1897-1903
13/12 Metlakatla, 1889-1902
13/13 Yakutat, 1895-1901
13/14 Potlatch, 1870-1904
13/15 Witchcraft, Slavery and Human Sacrifice, 1900-1905
13/16 Meeting between Governor Brady and Tlingit chiefs, 1898
13/17 Native police, circa 1885-1891

Sub-series Nine: Brady Family (1887-1967)

13/18 General, 1889-1967
13/19 Elizabeth Patton Brady (Mrs. Brady), 1887-1925

Sub-series Ten: Subject files (circa 1875-1917)

13/20 Assassination of President McKinley, 1901
13/21 Imperialism, 1898-1912
13/22 Interior Alaska, 1875-1903
13/23 Nome, 1897-1900
13/24 Sitka Hot Springs, 1885-1917
13/25 Sitka Society, 1885-1903
13/26 Brady and church, post-1880


Education and schools

13/27 1880-1886
13/28 1886-1906
13/29 1905-

13/30 Lewis and Clark Exposition, 1905
13/31 Territorial Library and Museum, 1902-1905

Series IV: Alaska (circa 1867-1990)

Sub-series One: Archival Collection Guides and Bibliographies (circa 1920-1976)

Box 14

14/1 Bibliographic note cards - Primary sources, undated

Box 15

15/1 Bibliographic note cards - Secondary sources, undated

Box 16

16/1 Alaska newspapers, 1976
16/2 Alaska bibliography, circa 1962
16/3 Bibliographic reference cards by subject, circa 1920-1975
16/4 U.S. Government microfilm collection, 1970

Sub-series Two: Alaska, General historical materials (circa 1850-1985)

Reference materials

16/516/9 1867-1910

16/10 Alaska and World War II, circa 1940-1950
16/11 Images of Alaska by early American explorers, circa 1890-1985
16/12-16/13 Photographs and illustrative materials, undated

Box 17

17/1 Alta California and San Francisco Chronicle articles about Alaska, 1867-1887
17/2-17/10 Contemporary articles about Alaskan, circa 1950-1985
17/11 Hinckley lectures about Alaska, circa 1970s
17/12 Hinckley publications about Alaska, undated
17/13-17/14 Miscellaneous reel-to-reels, undated

Sub-series Three: Alaska Natives (circa 1830-1987)

Reference materials

17/15-17/16 1830s-1980s

Box 18

18/1-18/3 1830s-1980s

18/4 Alaska Native Brotherhood, circa 1893-1944
18/5 Aleuts, circa 1867-1982
18/6 Auk, circa 1885-1967
18/7 Blood atonement and slavery, circa 1885-1895
18/8 Chief Annahootz, circa 1886-1907
18/9 Chilkat, circa 1876-1972
18/10 “Church, State and the American Indian,” article by R. Pierce Beaver, 1966
18/11 Commercial fishing
18/12 Comparison of British and American treatment of Northwest Indians, 1978-1982
18/13 Disease, 1835-1970


Education

Published materials

18/14 Circa 1960-1970
18/15 Circa 1980s

18/16 Indian schools, circa 1867-1900
18/17 Carlisle School, 1867-1950

18/18 Federal Indian Policy in Alaska – manuscript material, undated
18/19 Guns, 1868-1890

Box 19

19/1 Haida, circa 1885-1902
19/2 Health, 1975
19/3 Hinckley lectures, circa 1970s
19/4 History and Ethnology, 1886-1901
19/5 Hoonah seizure of the Hudson Bay Company steamer, Labouchere, 1862 – reference materials and draft article, circa 1987
19/6 Indians and Creoles of Sitka: Commissioner’s Docket, 1884-1896
19/7 “The Indian in Relation to the White Population of the U.S.,” – thesis, 1908
19/8 Indian Tension, 1877-1880
19/9 Kwakiutl – Potlatch, 1883-1950
19/10 Land claims, 1971-1979
19/11 Metlakatla settlement, circa 1861-1903
19/12 Minority groups and Alaska Natives – Labor, post-1882


Missions and missionaries

19/13 Alaska Missionary, by Reverend Ferdinand Drebert, D.D., 1959
19/14 Relationship with Alaska Natives, 1889-1979
19/15 Sitka Presbyterian Church session records, 1884-1907
19/16 Women missionaries, circa 1893-1987

Native Culture and Society

19/17 Arts and crafts, circa 1800-1980
19/18 Exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair, 1901

Box 20

20/1 Woodwork – canoes and houses, circa 1879-1971
20/2 Population, circa 1869-1979
20/3 “Power of Name,” circa 1888-1908
20/4 Racism, 1889-1974
20/5 Relations with whites, circa 1867-1987
20/6 Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, 1867-1901
20/7 Reservations, 1846-1851
20/8 Tsimshian, circa 1867-1950

Tlingit

20/9 Basic sources, circa 1890-1982
20/10 Bibliography, undated

Published articles

20/11 1900-1970
20/12 1971-1978
20/13 1979-1985

20/14 Unpublished materials, circa 1892-1911
20/15 Attire, pre-1900
20/16 Commerce, circa 1869-1963
20/17 Compared and contrasted to Plains Indians, circa 1885-1903
20/18 Physical description, circa 1852-1883
20/19 Police, circa 1870-1890
20/20 Shaman and his impact, circa 1850-1950
20/21 Slaves, circa 1840-1968
20/22 Tlingit to English dictionary, undated
20/23 Tlingit Presbyterian Church records, 1906-1926
20/24 The Thlingit (newspaper devoted to Native interests), 1909-1911
20/25 Tongass, circa 1898

Women

20/26 General information, circa 1890-1986
20/27 Hinckley article, 1992

Box 21

Sub-series Four: “Boosters and Laments” (1867-1905)


21/1-21/2 1867-1905

Sub-series Five: Communication (1866-1970)

21/3 Mail service, circa 1866-1906
21/4 Western Union Telegraph Company, circa 1867-1970

Sub-series Six: Conservation and Ecology (1895-1913)

21/5 Reference materials, 1895-1913
21/6 “Conservation in Alaska” – Hinckley lecture, circa 1970s

Sub-series Seven: Economic Activities (circa 1868-1978)

21/7 Agriculture, 1898-1978


Alaska Commercial Company

21/8-21/10 General, 1868-1940
21/11 Administrative records, circa 1868-1898
21/12 Reply to Governor Swineford, 1887
21/13 “The Alaska Commercial Company and the U.S. Customs Bureau in Alaska” – manuscript by Roland L. De Lorme, undated

21/14 Alaska/U.S. commercial relations, 1868-1902
21/15 “Commercial Alaska in 1901: Area, Population, production, Railways, Telegraphs, Transportation Routes, Foreign Commerce & commerce of the U.S. with Alaska,” May 1902

Box 22

Fishing Industry

22/1-22/5 Fish and canneries, circa 1875-1975
22/6 “Pacific Salmon Fisheries,” by John N. Cobb, 1917
22/7 “The salmon and salmon fisheries of Alaska,” from the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 1898
22/8 “The Pacific Salmon Fisheries,” James Crutchfield & Guillo, undated
22/9 Alaska seal and salmon fisheries, 1898
22/10 Alaska Packers and Chinese Labor, circa 1900-1976
22/11 Alaska fisheries and R.D. Hume, 1959, 1961
22/12 Fishing industry articles, 1973-1974
22/13 “The Fisherman’s Frontier on the Pacific Coast: The Rise of the Salmon- Canning Industry,” by Vernon Carstensen, undated
22/14 “The Men Who Packed the Harvest,” by Sue Ellen Liljeblad, 1978
22/15 Unpublished papers regarding legislative attempts to prevent salmon exploitation, 1880-1910
22/16 Fur Trade, 1868-1977
22/17 Hudson Bay Company, 1839-1941
22/18 Japanese presence, circa 1895-1964
22/19 Journalism and newspapers, circa 1868-1907

Mining

22/20 General, circa 1880-1978

Box 23

23/1-23/2 General, circa 1880-1978
23/3 George Washington Carmack’s account of the Klondike Discovery, 1896
23/4 Klondike, 1897-1900
23/5 Treadwell Mine in Juneau, 1892-1957

23/6 Reindeer, 1890-1972


Shipping

23/7 General, 1884-1898
23/8 “Cutter, Smuggler, Colporteur, and Trader – The Leo (originally ISRM Reliance), by Hinckley, undated

Transportation and Tourism

23/9-23/12 Circa 1860-1980
23/13 Railroads, circa 1899-1905
23/14 Whaling, circa 1881-1966

Sub-series Eight: Education (circa 1868-1911)

23/15 General, circa 1882-1900
23/16 Bureau of Education Special Report – Indian Education & Civilization, 1888

Box 24

24/1-24/2 Commissioner of Education – Annual Reports 1870-1911
24/3 Mission schools, circa 1877-1903
24/4 Public schools, circa 1868-1894
24/5 Sitka schools, circa 1879-1893


Indian Education

24/6 General, circa 1870-1893
24/7 Progress through education, circa 1880-1908
24/8 Sex education, circa 1880-1892

Sub-series Nine: Ethnic groups, non-Native (1867-1973)

24/9 Jews in Alaska, 1867-1973

Sub-series Ten: Geography (circa 1860-1982)

24/10 Physical description, circa 1869-1970
24/11 “Towns in Alaska,” 1897
24/12 Anchorage, 1969-1971
24/13-24/14 Circle City, 1886-1972
24/15 Fairbanks, circa 1910-1980
24/16 Fort Tongass, 1868-1893
24/17 Forty Mile, 1888-1902
24/18 Hoonah, 1880-1903
24/19-24/20 Juneau, circa 1880-1965
24/21 Ketchikan, 1886-1900
24/22 Killisnoo, 1882-1890
24/23 Kodiak Island, 1868-


Metlakatla

24/24 General, 1881-1882
24/25 General, 1883

Box 25

25/1 Nome, circa 1898-1965
25/2 Petersburg, circa 1975
25/3 Point Barrow, Point Hope, Prince of Wales, circa 1883-1893
25/4 Pribilof Islands, 1869-1897

 

Sitka

General

25/5-25/6 Circa 1860-1880
25/7 Circa 1880s
25/8 Circa 1890-1910

25/9 “Sitka National Monument” – manuscript by George A. Hall, 1968
25/10 Sitka frontier community, circa 1867-1890
25/11 Sitka Times, 1868

25/12 Skagway, 1897
25/13 St. Lawrence Island, 1881-1895
25/14 Taku, 1890-1918
25/15 Wrangell, circa 1869-1880

Box 26

Yukon Valley

26/1 Yukon Valley Interior, 1866-1969
26/2 “Yukon Valley Eskimos” – manuscript by Dorothy Jean Ray, 1964
26/3 Aboriginals of the Yukon Valley – reference materials, circa 1878-1982
26/4 Settlement by whites, 1910-1971
26/5 Yukon River and the Klondike, circa 1895-1971
26/6 Alexander Hunter Murray journals, 1847-1878
26/7 Leroy McQuestion journal, 1871-1885

26/8 Maps, 1882-1971
26/9 Tundra, 1972

Subseries Eleven: Government and Law (circa 1869-1970)

26/10 Alaska Bar Association and a Sketch of the Judiciary, 1901
26/11 Planning Council “General Information Regarding Alaska,” 1941
26/12 Alaska Boundary Tribunal and Canadian-Alaskan Boundary dispute, circa 1878-1904
26/13 Canadian-Alaskan Boundary Dispute, circa 1878-1904
26/14 Civil vs. territorial government and quest for a Congressional Delegate from Alaska to the United State Congress, circa 1899-1905
26/15 Court Case: Charles Kie v. the U.S., 1888


Government and Alaska Natives

26/16 “The Federal Relationship to Alaska Natives” by David S. Case, 1978
26/17 1st Report of the Commission on Indian Affairs, 1869
26/18 George Thornton Emmons’ report on the needs and condition of Alaska Natives, 1905

Governors

26/19 Thomas Rigg – “The Truth About Alaska” article, undated
26/20 John Kinkead and A.P. Swineford, 1884

Box 27

27/1-27/2 A.P. Swineford, 1885-1889
27/3 Lyman Knapp, 1893
27/4 James Sheakley, 1893-1897

Governor of Alaska Reports

27/5 1884-1889
27/6 1890-1899
27/7 1900-1903
27/8 1904-1907
27/9 1907-1913

27/10 House of Representatives Alaska Delegate – M.D. Ball, 1881-1882

Land

27/11 Secretary of Interior Annual Report, 1868-1869
27/12 Secretary of the Interior general materials, 1877-1970
27/13 Land Law, 1867-1967
27/14 General Land Office – Extending the Homestead Act to Alaska, 1898

27/15 Laws and rules of the District Court of Alaska, 1884-1896
27/16 “The Administration of Criminal Justice in Alaska, 1867-1902” – manuscript by Tom Murton, 1965
27/17 Native Militia, circa 1900
27/18 Organic Act, 1884


Politics

27/19 General, 1950
27/20 “Alaska in the Republican and Democratic Party Platforms 1868-1900” – paper by Wyn Wachhorst, 1964

27/21 Proposed penal colony in Alaska, circa 1880s-1915
27/22 Senate Report – conditions in Alaska, 1904
27/23 Senate Testimony, 1892


Treasury Department

27/24 Secretary of Treasury Annual Reports, 1877-1883
27/25 Captain Charles Bryant, Special Agent to the Treasury Department – Special Report, 1869

Box 28

28/1 “Conditions of Affairs in Alaska” – Special Report, 1875
28/2 U.S. Treasury Department, circa 1878-1888
28/3 U.S. Purchase of Alaska, 1867

28/4 President Hayes and Alaska, 1879-1880


Alaska Population Data

28/5 1870-1880
28/6 1880-1920

Subseries Twelve: Individuals (circa 1860-1983)

28/7 “Characters and Office Holders – Dates,” undated
28/8 Various, circa 1860-1895
28/9 Adams, George Russell, 1865-1867
28/10 Beardslee, L.A., 1879-1903
28/11 Churchill, Leonard, 1889
28/12 Coon, Henry, 1886-1896
28/13 Davis, General Jefferson C., 1828-1879
28/14 Dawes, Henry L., 1887-1889
28/15 deGroff, Edward, 1880-1900


Dodge, William Sumner

28/16 “Alaska Pioneer and West coat Town Builder, William Sumner Dodge” - Hinckley article, undated
28/17 Manuscript and reference materials for article, undated

28/18-28/19 Eaton, John, 1876-1965
28/20 Elliot, Henry W., circa 1870
28/21 Emmons, George T., 1886-1904
28/22 Harrison, Benjamin, 1885-1892

Box 29

29/1 Heintzleman, Frank, ex-governor of Alaska – reel-to-reel, 1962 July 10
29/2 Howard, Major General O.O. - Memoir, 1907
29/3 Keithahn, Edward, curator, Alaska State Museum – reel-to-reel, undated
29/4 Kelly, W.P., 1891-1962
29/5 Kinkead, John H., 1869-1885
29/6 Lewis, Andrew T., 1884
29/7 Marsden, Edward, 1891-1904
29/8 Miller, John Franklin – unpublished paper, 1981
29/9 Mills, William Richie, 1983
29/10 Moore, Billie, William Thomas Lopp, James Condit, Charles Baranovitch, and John D’Wolf, 1882-1987
29/11 Muir, John, 1976-1981
29/12 Newell, W.A. – Territorial Governor of Washington State, 1881-1986


Niblack, Albert

29/13 Journal, 1880-1886
29/14 Reference materials, 1865-1971

29/15 Petrov, Ivan, 1872-1896
29/16-29/17 Pratt, Captain R.H., circa 1881-1973
29/18 Ripinsky, Sol, 1870-1906
29/19-29/20 Rogers, George, Alaska State Economist – reel-to-reel, undated
29/21 Scidmore, Eliza R., Marcus Baker, Henry Glass, Rear Admiral William H. Emory, and Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz, 1882-1974

Box 30

Seward, William H.

30/1 Account of Alaska trip, 1870-1871
30/2 Speeches, 1869
30/3 Hinckley article and reference materials, 1869-1967

30/4 Shortridge, Louis, circa 1890-1987
30/5 Simpson, Friench – journal, 1909
30/6 Thornton, Reverend H.R., 1893
30/7 Thwing, L.B. – correspondence, 1892-1895
30/8 Young, S. Hall, 1898-1929
30/9 Zagoskin, L.A., circa 1980

Subseries Thirteen: Liquor (circa 1867-1980)

General information

30/10 1867-1892
30/11 1893-1896
30/12 1897-1910

30/13 Eskimos and Aleuts, circa 1871-1910
30/14 Liquor problem, circa 1890-1900


Missionaries

30/15 1870-1899
30/16 Harrison Thornton and Charles Edwards murders, 1892-1893

Box 31

Customs Collectors

31/1-31/2 General information, 1884-1892
31/3-31/4 William Morris, 1878-1882

31/5 Licensing, 1884-1894
31/6 Smuggling, circa 1868-1980
31/7 Seizures, 1869-1891

Subseries Fourteen: Military (circa 1867-1987)

Army

31/8-31/11 General information, circa 1867-1966
31/12 Indians and troop withdrawal, 1867-1870
31/13 “Petty Politics,” 1868-1872
31/14 Army / civilian interaction, 1868-1899
31/15 Major J.B. Campbell, 1875-1877
31/16 Hinckley article about the Army in Alaska, 1984

Box 32

32/1 Other articles about Army in Alaska, 1870-1972

Navy

32/2 Secretary of Navy Annual Reports, 1879-1882
32/3 Law enforcement, circa 1868-1905
32/4-32/5 Destruction of Angoon – Hinckley article and reference materials, 1970s- 1980s
32/6 Destruction of Angoon – Esther Billman papers, 1973
32/7 Navy at Killisnoo, circa 1882-1886
32/8 Revenue Cutters Corwin and Bear, circa 1885-1905

32/9 U.S. Coast Guard, circa 1876-1976

Subseries Fifteen: Missionaries (circa 1867-1963)

32/10 British Columbia missionaries, circa 1875-1885
32/11 Fort Simpson and Reverend Crosby, circa 1861
32/12 Max Pracht in Saxman, 1885-1901
32/13 Dr. Aaron L. Lindsley, 1867-1880
32/14 Work in Sitka, 1883-1963
32/15 Haines, Hoonah, Hydah and Klawack missions, circa 1880-1900
32/16 Tlingit Training Academy, 1878-1888

Box 33

Subseries Sixteen: Religion in Alaska (circa 1800-1984)


33/1 Episcopalians, circa 1884-1897
33/2 Lutherans, 1867-1968
33/3 Methodists, circa 1800-1900
33/4 Moravians, circa 1879-1942
33/5-33/6 Roman Catholics, circa 1880-1965
33/7 Salvation Army, circa 1882-1977
33/8-33/10 Russian Orthodox Church Historical articles, 1967-1984

Subseries Seventeen: Russian America (circa 1806-1989)

Historical Articles

33/11 Various, circa 1806-1988
33/12 “Russian administration of Alaska, 1749-1867”
33/13 “The Russian American Company” by S. B. Okun, 1951
33/14 “A History of the Russian American Company” by P. A. Tikhmenev, undated
33/15 “The Russian American Colonies,” eds. Dmytryshyn, Basil, et. al., 1989
33/16 “Baranov: Chief Manager of the Russian Colonies in America” by K. T. Khlebnikov, 1973

33/17 Pavel Golovin, Imperial Russian Navy Officer – letter, 1860-1861

Box 34

34/1-34/3 Population, circa 1869-1975
34/4 Relations with Alaska Natives, undated
34/5 Relations with Canada, 1855-1880
34/6 Relations with U.S. and reasons for sale of Alaska, circa 1867-1971
34/7 Trading, undated

Subseries Eighteen: Settlers (circa 1867-1977)

34/8 Icelanders, 1870s
34/9 Paul family, circa 1879-1984
34/10 “Researching Alaska’s Pioneer Years, 1867-1912,” by Hinckley, 1977
34/11 Prominent Alaskans, 1897
34/12 Accusations of witchcraft, circa 1883
34/13-34/14 Pioneer Culture, circa 1867-1916

Subseries Nineteen: United States (1867-1870)

34/15 Alaska’s relationship with San Francisco, circa 1867-1870

Subseries Twenty: Women (1883-1912)

34/16 General, circa 1883-1891
34/17 Miss Amanda McFarland of Fort Wrangell, 1886-1912

Series V: Non-Alaskan subjects (circa 1867-1975)

34/18 Alaska’s relationship with San Francisco, circa 1867-1870
34/19 American Indian, 1600-1867
34/20 American Indian, post-1867
34/21 American South – bibliographic reference cards, circa 1875-1975
34/22 Hawaiian missionaries, circa 1822-1894

Box 35

35/1 Liquor – U.S book, circa 1868-1886
35/2 U.S. Pacific Expansion, circa 1865-1930
35/3 “U.S. Scene,” pre-1830-1909


World War II Microfilm – Dept. of the Navy, Operational Archives Branch, Naval Historical Center

35/4 Carrier Command Report – Sinking of Yamato (three rolls), 1978
35/5 WWII History Reports and WWII Action Reports, 1979, 1994