PCA 525-19: Alaska Postcards, Ca. 1940S-1960S

PCA 525-19: Alaska Postcards, ca. 1940s-1960s Alaska State Library

AlaskaState Library

Historical Collections

Alaska Postcards, ca. 1940s-1960s

PCA 525-19

1 FolderProcessed by: Anastasia Tarmann,11 b&w photo postcards October, 2009

28 Colorized photo or illustrated postcards

ACQUISITION: The collection was donated by the Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan by the Collections Curator, Paige A. Edwards, to the Alaska State Library Historical Collections August 3, 2009. The collection isaccessioned as 2009-39.

ACCESS: The collection is unrestricted.

COPYRIGHT: Request for permission to publish or reproduce material from the collection should be discussed with the Librarian. Photocopying does not constitute permission to publish.

PROCESSING: This collection has been described at the item level. All items have been placed in mylar and into pH-neutral folders.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS NOTE

This collection contains commercialpostcards of various places around the state of Alaska. Three postcards have handwritten notes. Full personal names on postcards are: Mrs. Edwin Pollengil, Mrs. J. Traziser (?) in Rockwood Michigan.

SUBJECTS

Haines, Taku Inlet, Taku Glacier, Inside Passage, Lynn Canal, Denali, Chilkat Valley, Colombia Glacier, Dog sleds, Malamutes, Reindeer, Kodiak bears, Arctic Native girls, Mendenhall Glacier, Ketchikan, Princess Louise, Skagway, Juneau at night, Mt. Eccles.

INVENTORY

1. Taku Glacier

2. Inside Passage

3. On Lynn Canal, Alaska

4. Ketchikan, Alaska

5. “Trail’s End”-Glacier Highway, Alaska

6. P-644 “End of the Trail” Glacier Highway, Alaska

7. Mt. McKinley Reflections, Camp Denali McKinley Park, Alaska

8. C248 - Alaskan Glacier Through Tree Trunk

9. 452 – Inside Passage, Alaska

10. 457 – Chilkat Valley Along Haines Highway, Alaska

11. No. 590 Columbia Glacier, Alaska

12. Transporting U.S. Mail, Alaska

13. A 180 “Huskie” Pups Alaska

14. S 334 Klondike and Nanuk – Alaska Malamutes

15. Looking For Seal – Alaska

16. D-21 “Whitey” – Dog Team Leader – Skagway, Alaska

17. 1398: - Reindeer Herd Grazing On Tundra, Alaska

18. Lynn Canal on route to Alaska

19. 271: - Evening In Juneau. On The Gastenau[Gastineau]Channel, Inside Passage, Alaska

20. 480: - Large Kodiak Bear, Kodiak, Alaska

21. 479: - Two Months Old Kodiak Cub

22. 414: - Six Little Arctic Natives, Alaska

23. 298 “Anvik”, Alaska Husky

24. 1401: - Husky Family, Alaska

25. No. 1368 Winter Time in Alaska

26. 1367: - When Winter Is King, Alaska

27. 1372: - Icebergs In Alaska

28. S-311 Ward Cove Creek – Ketchikan, Alaska

29. C118. Ice Cave, Mendenhall Glacier, near Juneau, Alaska

30. No. 1367 When Winter is King, Alaska

31. Taku Inlet, Alaska

32. S-182 Mt. Eccles, Alaska

33. C 143. Alaska Dog Team

34. 5622. Keystone Canyon, near Valdez, Alaska

35. 1393: - Famous Alaska dog Team

36. 297 Siberian Dog Team, Alaska

37. No. 1659 Scenic Grandeur in Alaska

38. Old & New On The Alcan

39. D-77 S.S. Princess Louise of Skagway, Alaska

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