Series I. Research Material, circa 1797-1964
Series II. Publications and Writings, circa 1846-1965
Series III. Personal Papers, circa 1800-1962
Series IV. Maps and Charts, circa 1910-1944

Series I. Research Material, circa 1797-1964

Box 1

Subseries 1: Alaska, Canada, and Pacific Northwest reference material, 1797-1947

1/1-1/2 General reference material – Alaska, circa 1850s-1940s
1/3 General reference material – Canada, circa 1930s
1/4 General reference material – Pacific Northwest, circa 1920s-1940s
1/5 Alaska and Northwest biographies, circa 1797-1947
1/6 Census of Sitka, Alaska, 1870 (photostat copy)

Box 2

2/1-2/2 Exploration of Alaska and Canada reference material, circa 1790s-1930s
2/3 National Resources Committee, Alaska Resources Committee – “Alaska: Its Resources and Development,” 1937 December

Oversize Box

OV/1 Preston Times – re-print of “Off to… Alaska,” circa 1939

Box 2 (continued)

2/4 Rampart Miner (publication from Rampart City, Alaska), 1901-1902

Subseries 2: Alaska Natives reference material, 1930-1950

2/5 General reference material, circa 1930s-1940s
2/6-2/7 Alaska Natives fishing rights reference material, circa 1930s-1940s

Box 3

3/1 Arnold, W.C. – “The Hydaburg Indian Reservation – Its Background, Validity, and Effect,” 1950 December 21
3/2 Gsovski, V. – “Russian Material Available in the Library of Congress on the Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska,” 1940
3/3 “Indians at Work,” 1944 September-October
3/4 Kerry, McCord, & Carey – “Opinion Relative to Indian Fishing Rights in Alaska,” 1942 October
3/5 Paul, William L. – “Historical and Legal Materials Relative to the Tlingit and Haida Claims Act of 1935,” 1939 May

Subseries 3: Alaska Purchase, boundary disputes, and statehood reference material, 1860-1950

3/6 General reference material, circa 1860s-1950s

Box 4

4/1 “Alaska Statehood – Hearings Before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate,” 1950
4/2 Congressional Globe – “Speeches and Debates Pertaining to the Purchase of Alaska (First, Second, and Third Sessions of the 40th Congress, 1867-1869),” 1867-1869

Oversize Box

OV/2 National Archives and Records Administration – photostat copies of original documents dealing with the transfer of Russian America to the United States, circa 1867-1869

Volume 1

National Archives and Records Administration - photostat copies of original maps dealing with the transfer of Russian America to the United States, circa 1867-1869

Volume 2

Photostat copies of original maps of Sitka during the transfer of Russian American to the United State (1867-1868), circa 1867-1869

Box 4 (continued)

4/3 Seward, W.H., et al. – “Complete Correspondence Regarding the Purchase of Russian Alaska: Early History, Topography, Climate, Indians, Value, etc.,” 1897
4/4 U.S. Embassy and Russia – “Papers Relating to the Cession of Alaska, 1956-1964,” (microfilm), undated

Oversize Box

OV/3 Washburn, C.C. – “Speech on the Treaty with Russia for the Purchase of Russian America,” 1867 December 11

Box 5

Subseries 4: Bering Sea controversy reference material, 1890-1896

Publications from Her and His Majesty’s Stationary Office in Great Britain

5/1 “Award of the Tribunal of Arbitration,” 1893 August
5/2 “Correspondence Respecting Claims for Compensation on Account of British Vessels Seized in Behring Sea by United States’ Cruisers,” 1895 September
5/3 “Correspondence Respecting the Alaska Boundary,” 1904 January
5/4 “Correspondence Respecting the Behring Sea Seal Fisheries, 1886-1890,” 1890 August
5/5 “Correspondence Respecting the Seizures of British Sealing Vessels by Russian Cruizers in the North Pacific Ocean,” 1893 June
5/6 “Map of the Northern Portion of the North Pacific Ocean,” 1893 March
5/7 “Papers Relating to the Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration,” 1893 September
5/8 “Report by Professor D’Arcy Thompson on His Mission to Behring Sea in 1896,” 1897 March 4
5/9 “Report of the Behring Sea Commission, and Report of British Commissioners of June 21, 1892, with five maps and diagrams, and appendices,” 1893 March
5/10 “Telegraphic Correspondence Respecting Seal Fishing in Behring’s Sea during the Season of 1892,” 1892 March

5/11 Morse, William H. – “The Bering Sea Controversy,” undated

Box 6

Subseries 5: Fishing and Fur Industries reference material, 1901-1944

6/1-6/2 General reference material, circa 1930s-1940s
6/3-6/5 Department of Commerce: Bureau of Fisheries – reports on the salmon, fish, and fur industries in Alaska, 1901-1913

Box 7

7/1-7/6 Department of Commerce: Bureau of Fisheries – reports on the salmon, fish, and fur industries in Alaska, 1914-1937

Box 8

8/1 Department of Commerce: Bureau of Fisheries – reports on the salmon, fish, and fur industries in Alaska, 1938-1944
8/2 Howay, F.W. (Royal Society of Canada) – “List of Trading Vessels in the Maritime Fur Trade, 1795-1804,” 1931; “List of Trading Vessels in the Maritime Fur Trade, 1815-1819,” 1933

Subseries 6: Maritime Navigation reference material, 1931-1943

Oversize Box

OV/4 Dall, William H. – “Bering’s First Expedition, 1725-1730 – A Critical Review and a Translation of His Original Report,” undated

Box 8 (continued)

8/3 Royal Canadian Mounted Police – “Reports and other papers relating to the Two Voyages of the R.C.M. Police Schooner ‘St. Roch,’” 1945
8/4 U.S. Coast Guard – “Nautical Rules of the Road,” 1943
8/5 U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation – “Steam Vessels Built in the United States, 1807-1856,” 1931
8/6 U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 1931 July

Subseries 7: Oil and Geology reference material, 1930-1935

8/7 Kindle, E.M – “The Geological Story of Jasper National Park, Canada,” circa 1930s
8/8 Maillot, E.E. – “Geologic History of the Gravel, Muck and Ice Deposits in the Fairbanks District,” 1935 March 21
8/9 Standard Oil Bulletin, 1931 December
8/10 Vesper, H.G., President of Standard Oil Company of California – remarks to the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce: “Alaska’s Promise of Oil,” 1931 October 31

Subseries 8: Transportation reference material, 1930-1965

8/11-8/13 General reference material, circa 1930s-1960s

Series II. Publications and Writings, circa 1846-1965

Box 9

Subseries 1: Publications and Writings by Shiels, 1920-1965

9/1-9/3 General reference material for and including stories, manuscripts, and historical addresses, circa 1920s-1940s
9/4 “Alaska’s First Ten Years Under the Stars and Stripes (1867-1877),” undated
9/5 “Alaskan History Prior to 1897,” undated
9/6 History of Christmas in Many Lands, 1956
9/7 “Pax Vobiscum Tillicum, Johnnie O’Brien – Dean of Shipmasters of the Pacific,” undated
9/8 Russian America and the Purchase of Alaska, 1949

Box 10

10/1 Seward’s Icebox: A Few Notes on the Development of Alaska, 1867-1931, 1933
10/2 “Short History of Transportation to and within the Territory of Alaska, 1897-1908,” 1950
10/3 Tell Me A Stowry, 1948
10/4 Tell Me a Stowry, undated
10/5 The Early History of Canned Foods, 1940
10/6 The Purchase of Alaska, 1965

Box 11

11/1 “Work of the Bureau of Education in Alaska,” undated

Subseries 2: Publications and Writings by other authors, 1846-1934

11/2 Donham, Wallace B. and R.S. Meriam – “Notes on recovery,” 1934
11/3 Gray, A.A., Francis P. Farquhar, and William S. Lewis – “Camels in Western America,” 1930

Oversize Box

OV/5 “Launch of the Queen Mary in the presence of Their Majesties the King & Queen, Wednesday, September 26, 1934 at Clydebank” (commemorative book), undated

Box 11 (continued)

11/4 “Philippine Maps from the Time of Magellan,” undated (ditto copies)
11/5 Second Wuxtra – publication from the Seattle Press Club (includes President Taft’s message to the newspaper men of Seattle), 1911 November 1-2

Oversize Box

OV/6 Shively, J.M. – “Route and Distances to Oregon and California with a Description of Watering Places, Crossings, Dangerous Indians, etc.,” 1846

Box 12

12/1 Zagoskin, Lieutenant L.A. – Account of Pedestrian Journeys in the Russian Possessions in America, undated

Series III. Personal Papers, circa 1800-1962

Subseries 1: Pacific American Fisheries material, 1930-1962

12/2 Blueprints – S.S. North King, 1930

Map Folder

M/1 Cannery blueprints of Ikaton, Port Moller, and Squaw Harbor, AK, 1932

Box 12 (continued)

12/3 Cannery blueprint (unidentified), undated
12/4 16mm film reels, undated
12/5 Letter from Filipino workers protesting the conditions at the Pacific American Fisheries cannery in Nushagak, AK, 1933 June
12/6 Pafishco News, 1962

Subseries 2: Photographs and Negatives, 1910-1933

12/7-12/9 Miscellaneous photographs and negatives, circa 1910s-1940s

Box 13

13/1 Negatives depicting scenic and family portraits, and images by photographer Bert Huntoon, circa 1930s
13/2 Photograph album depicting scenes from Alaskan canneries and other sites, mostly identified, circa 1930
13/3-13/4 Photograph album with duplicates of images depicting Washington and Alaskan scenes from circa 1800s-1880s, including early Seattle photographs, and corresponding negatives, undated

13/5 Old books – Christian diary, 1650; unidentified, undated
13/6 Scrip from the Tenino Chamber of Commerce for the amount of twenty-five cents, 1933 April

Series IV. Maps and Charts, circa 1910-1944

Map Folder

M/2 British Columbia and Southeast Alaska map, undated
M/3 British Columbia Highway Travel map, 1930
M/4 Fairbanks Great Circle map showing proposed location of the Pacific-Yukon Highway, and accompanying documents, 1930
M/5 Northern British Columbia, 1933
M/6 Orcas Island and surrounding islands, 1941
M/7 Pacific Coast funnel chart showing the funnel designs for many ships frequenting the Pacific, 1928
M/8 Pacific-Yukon international highway-airway map, undated
M/9 Puget Sound Country and Vicinity map from the Inland Navigation Company, 1910
M/10 Queen Charlotte Islands map, 1927
M/11 Southeastern Alaska map, 1944
M/12 United States – routes of principle explorers (1498-1699; 1700-1852), undated