‎Alaska‎

‎[ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO]‎

‎ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY COPPER RIVER & NORTHWESTERN RY.‎

‎Chicago: Poole Bros. 1917. 1917. ALASKA. 27" x 32" sheet folded to 48 panels measuring 9" x 4" each two panel constitute cover and are not numbered. 22 numbered panels with text and illustrations some color of the area. On opposite side of text are 24 panels depicting a large map of Alaska showing the Alaska Steamship Co. routes table of distances from Seattle to various points in Alaska. Large map is bordered on top and bottom sides by photographs of the various areas in Alaska. Inset is a smaller map 11" x 8" of the Copper River & Northwestern Railway and The Alaska Railroad showing Copper River Region in Alaska Prince William Sound The Richardson Automobile Highway Mt. McKinley National Park Government Telegraph Line and Tributary Territory. Brochure touts the wonders of Alaska to include information on its glaciers it cities its mountains etc. Information offered on Golden Belt Line Tour and the Prince William Sound Cruise. Photographs of the Alaska Steamship Company's fleet as well as photos of the interior of the ship and information on the accommodations. Minor wear to covers and lightly rubbed else a near fine bright clean copy. Poole Bros. 1917]. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 39706

‎[ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY]‎

‎PETER PAN WOODLAND CLUB / TITLE PAGE PETER PAN WOODLAND CLUB. A WORD PICTURE IMPRESSIONISM DEPICTING PRESENT FEATURES PROJECTS PERSONNEL‎

‎Los Angeles: Press of Schwabacher-Frey Company 1929. 1929. First edition. 11 1/4" x 8 1/2" in simulated leather and embossed pictorial boards with color vignette of Big Bear Valley stamped on front cover and with gilt lettering and woodcraft borders. Sewn with gold silk braid at spine. Decorative endpapers with slot on front pastedown for ownership certificate not present but tipped-in design for Cambria Pines cabin design with floor plans. Color illustrated vignette title. Color text illustrations. Photo illustrations. Decorative borders. Pictorial map by Graysons of Los Angeles. Color illustrated calendar dial with borders on final leaf preserving the original glassine flyleaves. A beautifully produced brochure detailing the amenities for both members and investors in the Peter Pan Woodland Club. Harry Kiener formed the Big Bear Land & Water Company to develop mountain properties in the east valley area of Big Bear City in 1925. In 1927 he contracted with Los Angles truck-body builder Guy Maltby to build a wooden power boat to be used on Big Bear Lake. While delivering the boat Maltby became fascinated with the project and formed the Bear Valley Milling and Lumber Company to build the Peter Pan Lodge along with over 600 surrounding homes in Big Bear City. This lodge was massive with five stories and included a golf course landscaping tennis courts swimming pool movie theater and for nearly two decades was used for parties dances and even Hollywood films. Sadly it burned to the ground on June 18 1948 and even though the smaller Peter Pan Lodge building was moved to the site it never recaptured the spirit and elegance of the original resort. Light soiling to bottom corners of pages along with faint tears to upper fore-edge of free front end paper and with slight creasing and with faint pencil annotations on front pastedown. Very good. Press of Schwabacher-Frey Company, 1929. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 52116

‎[Alaska – Prospecting] Dieners, Ruben; Dieners, Daniel‎

‎1916–1917 Photo Album of Illinoisan Brothers Ruben and Daniel Dieners in the Territory of Alaska‎

‎Alaska 1917. Photo album measuring 7 ¼ x 11 ½ inches containing 187 photos 2 unaffixed and five loose real photo postcards with a contemporaneous newspaper clipping. Photos approximately 3 x 4 inches with generally excellent contrast and in Near Fine condition. Overall excellent to Near Fine. A photo album belonging to brothers Ruben 1892–1984 and Daniel 1895–1969 Diener documenting their 1916–1917 journey to the Territory of Alaska. The newspaper clipping reproduces a letter from Dan Diener describing their time there:<br /> <br /> “I went with an old prospector to try and locate a lost mine. We found it but there was not enough gold to pay for mining it so in that respect our trip was a failure. . I lived in a tent with a small sheet iron stove during all this time and strange as it seems it was fairly comfortable. . One day I walked or snowshoed 30 miles for my mail when the thermometer was 58 below. . But the hardships were sweetened at times with the most beautiful scenery man can imagine.†March 1917<br /> <br /> The Dieners’ trip took them to Alaska’s southern coast to Ketchikan Cordova Valdez and Seward. There are some identifiable ships including the Admiral Farragut the Mariposa shortly before its sinking and the wreck of the James Drummond in British Columbia.<br /> <br /> Subjects include Chief Johnson’s totem pole in Ketchikan erected in 1902 in honor of Chief Gut Wain George Johnson; d. 1938 of the Gaanaxadi clan of the Tongass tribe—a real photo postcard from Kasaan shows many brightly colored totem poles along the shore with dilapidated wooden houses behind them—boats filled with fish outside the Carlisle Packing Company in Cordova and a real photo postcard of a man and dog captioned “READY FOR THE SUMMER TRAIL / SEWARD ALASKA†on the back of which Ruben Dieners has written:<br /> <br /> “Oct 9 1916. Here you are. This is Judge Hildreth of whom we have written you. Our best friend here and hereafter. We are going prospecting with him next spring. The dog in the picture carry’s fifty pounds. Brother Ruben.â€<br /> <br /> H.H. Hildreth was a district court commissioner in Seward editor of the Alaskan newspaper in Sitka and The Alaska Prospector in Valdez and secretary of the Matanuska Mining Company. <br /> <br /> The shots of towns show the development of the region: in some an area of forest has been recently cleared and stumps of trees might surround a few small wooden houses or platforms where houses are to be erected; while others show towns with telegraph lines graded dirt roads with sidewalks dense housing and railroad and tram lines. Two shots from Seward show the paved sidewalk of its main street with a hotel and bars and a dog team waiting outside the hardware store. As Dieners wrote they lived in a tent and several photos show the outside of the quarters: two semi-permanent canvas tents next to a wide wooden walkway. Others show men presumably the brothers snowshoeing hiking and riding in a canoe; and of course many are scenery shots of forests waterfalls and snowcapped mountains.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of post-gold rush Alaska. unknown‎

Référence libraire : List3507

‎[Alaska]‎

‎A Hand Book of Vacation Trips in Alaska and the Yukon…‎

‎<p>Pamphlet 3 1/2 x 6 pictorial wrappers stapled illustrated 55 pp. Slight wear and slight bend to some pages but very good to near fine. This little guide book to Alaska contains an amazing amount of information on the vast territory and its towns and cities as well as how to travel around it. Contains a couple of small maps to help the reader get around and even includes a rail schedule too. Additionally there are a number of small black and white photos that illustrate Alaska at the turn of the last century.</p>‎

Référence libraire : 100825

‎[Alaska]‎

‎Juneau Alaska caption title‎

‎Juneau Ak.: Winter & Pond 1930. Good. Panoramic photograph 10 x 34.5 inches. A few heavy creases a handful of short closed tears minor surface soiling and rubbing. An early-20th century panoramic image showing the development of the Alaskan capital city of Juneau produced by prolific local studio Winter & Pond. The image features the downtown portion of Juneau complete with paved streets telephone and electrical wires and hundreds of houses set between nearby Mount Juneau and the Gastineau Channel. <br /> <br /> "Lloyd Winter and Percy Pond preserved the legacy of Alaska's past through their photographs taken over a period of 50 years. The studios of Winter and Pond Company in Juneau Alaska provided local residents and visitors with a rich perspective of Alaska that is now considered a unique reflection of the state in the early 20th century. During the company's existence Alaska expanded mining fishing and resource development into profitable ventures that transformed it from a frontier district to a thriving territory of the United States. The portraits that Winter and Pond produced show the diversity of Alaska's people through the years from the gold rush of the Klondike in 1898 to the end of the mining operations in the Juneau Gold Belt District during the 1940s" - Alaska State Library's Historical Note for the Winter and Pond Collection. <br /> <br /> OCLC reports a few different Winter & Pond views of Juneau from 1909 to 1928 with the present example likely dating from a bit later but nonetheless rare. Winter & Pond unknown‎

Référence libraire : 3726

‎[Alaska]‎

‎Northern Commerical Co. 1918 Calendar‎

‎San Francisco: International Printing Co. 1918. Undetermined. very good. Colour calendar on heavy cardstock. 21" X 14". Occasional very light chipping and to edges. Corners bumped with some creasing. A few other light creases to edges. Full calendar pad Jan - Dec present with penciled notation in most days. Original string hanger present. Colours bright and unfaded. This poster is in very good condition. A scarce advertising calendar for the Northern Commercial Company N.C.Co. a retail company which maintained rural village stores across Alaska and in the Yukon. N.C.Co also operated steamships through Alaskan trade routes. The image on the poster features mining at Iditarod Alaska. Two totem poles on either side of the calendar pad list several stations of the N.C.Co. including Fairbanks Dawson Yukon Territory Bettles Iditarod and many others. The verso of the calendar is a full-page map of Alaska showing sea routes and locations of N.C.Co posts. A later incarnation of the business still maintains 30 stores across rural Alaska. See two other examples in this catalogue. 1918 International Printing Co. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 137331

‎[Alaska]‎

‎TYPESCRIPT AND PHOTOGRAPHS DOCUMENTING A WASHINGTON MAN'S ADVENTURES IN ALASKA 1946-47‎

‎Typescript account of 32 pages accompanied by 31 black and white photographs gathered in a scrapbook album documenting an unidentified Washington’s man’s hiking climbing and sight-seeing adventures in Alaska. Written along the top edge of the first page is “Alaska Bound 1946-1947.†Twenty-three of the onion skin paper pages are scotch taped to the album pages and the final nine pages of the typescript are loose and laid into the back of the string-tied album. The black and white photographs measure 4 ½ x 2 ¾†and are affixed to the album pages with black photo corners. The tape affixed to the pages has oxidized but otherwise overall on very good condition.<br/> <br/> The unknown author was a crewman on a cargo ship and wrote that he had made more than 150 prior trips to Southeastern Alaska. On this trip his ship set out from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands and made a stop at Anchorage to drop off some dogs for the Army. “As part of the cargo which we were carrying we had on deck sixty-one sled dogs raised in Nebraska†he wrote. “They were supposed to be mostly huskies but in reality were a mixture of almost everything…It was remarked: ‘They are nothing but a darned bunch of Nebraska coyotes.’â€<br/> <br/> Beyond Anchorage the ship’s itinerary included Adak Attu Shemya Whittier and Amchitaka. The narrative covers his experiences on board but is mainly devoted to his shore adventures oftentimes with other members of his crew which include mountain climbing hiking fishing trips and sight-seeing during his free days while cargo is being off loaded. One of his first adventures was a trip to Wasilla and Palmer. “Back in Palmer once more we made the acquaintance of one of the old timers who gave us quite a history of Alaskan mining from the early gold rush days up to the present time†he wrote. “He tried to persuade us to go back into the mountains with him to take pictures of his claims.<br/> <br/> On the way to Adak he spotted “whale birds†and soon whales were also seen. “During the war whales in these waters were frequently attacked by both bombers and submarines in error†he wrote. “It was it seems difficult to detect the difference between submarines and whales.â€<br/> In addition to being an avid and skillful storyteller and photographer the diarist had a wide-ranging knowledge and interest in the flora and fauna of the region. During a port stop in Attu he explored Holty Holtz Bay and traveled to the summit of Jarmin Pass where the Japanese once maintained a principal base until it was recaptured by the United States during World War II. “In the foreground and also in the distance some dummy guns and other equipment could be seen scattered about†he wrote. “I followed along the stream and before long came across a few small willow bushes less than three feet in height bravely struggling for existence against the elements. They were located in a thicket of Russian thistles wild cherry tanzzy monk hood and numerous other kinds of vegetation. That was my first glimpse of anything in the form of wood growing in the Aleutians.â€<br/> <br/> On this break he undertook the first of several climbing expeditions – this one of Gilbert Ridge. It was a near catastrophe after the weather turned foggy while he was climbing the jagged peaks made the wrong decision dead-ending against sheer cliffs and fell while back tracking his route. “In that next instant I found myself bouncing over the wet cozy ground like a toboggan over a snowbank…I started flying through space at what seemed to me a mile a minute. In the next instant there was a big swoosh as I cut a path three feet wide and five feet long through a patch of Indian celery Russian thistle and Monk’s Hood and landed with a flop in the creek bed below and that was that.†Although he was fortunate to escape with a sore shoulder and sprained thumb he was soaking wet and faced a long journey back to the ship.<br/> <br/> The scrapbook is filled with numerous descriptive accounts of his adventures during the journey. The photographs complement the text and include various images of his explorations ranging from Whittier Glacier to two men holding a crippled Bald Eagle a trading store in Wasilla and fishing at Finger Arm. At the end of the trip before returning to Seattle he and his shipmates went into the woods and cut Christmas trees which they delivered to families on the treeless remote Aleutians. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 74398

‎[Alaska] [M Bonne]‎

‎Carte De La Riviere De Cook dans la partie N. O. De L'Amerique‎

‎Paris: M. Bonne 1787. Map. Good. Approx. 16" x 11". Hand colored map of the southern Alaska region showing Capt. Cook's discoveries in the Prince William Sound and Cook's Inlet. Light crease in the center fold. Good. M. Bonne unknown‎

Référence libraire : 34758

‎[Alaska] Goodall, Perkins & Co‎

‎All About Alaska‎

‎San Francisco California: Pacific Coast Steamship Co. 1891. Softcover. very good. 1st edition. 63pp. Octavo. Illustrated with 2 drawings cabin plans and tables. Original pictorial wrappers. Housed in a green cloth fold over case. Small library stamp on front cover of wrappers. Minor chips to edges and minor soiling to front cover of wrappers. A very nice example of a fragile item. Scarce. very good Tourville 3449. Information on sailing times of streamers on the Alaska route for the 1891 season stateroom rates and descriptions of the excursions. 1891 Pacific Coast Steamship Co. paperback‎

Référence libraire : 122196

‎[ALASKA] Winchester, J [James] D‎

‎Capt. J.D. Winchester's Experience on a Voyage From Lynn Massachusetts to San Francisco Cal. and to the Alaskan Gold Fields‎

‎Salem MA: Newcomb and Gauss Printers 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 251 pp with frontispiece and many sketches by the author which are rather amateurish but charming. Mild marginal dampstain to the first few pages boards a bit scuffed rubbed at corners and spine ends. The author joined the Lynn Mining Company and departed from Massachusetts in November 1897 traveling via the Schooner "Abbie M. Deering" to Bahia Brazil and on to San Francisco. From there the party secured passage to Seattle and then St. Michael eventually traveling up the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers to the Arctic Circle. Includes detailed and colorful description of the outfitting process and the vicissitudes of travel and prospecting. Wickersham 80; Tourville 4919; Graff 4712; Howes W556; Smith 11106 Arctic Bibliography 19606. Newcomb and Gauss, Printers hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 12740

‎[ALASKA]. HOLMES, William Dayton‎

‎A square in the Arctic Circle. An Alaskan hunt.‎

‎Hamden CT: The Shoe String Press 1960. 8vo. 168 pp. Photo frntsp. numerous photo plates. Blue cloth gilt lettrng on spine mnr shlfwr some toning w/ d.j. slght chppng hd & ft of spine edgewear VG/VG copy. First edition of this big game hunting memoir in Alaska where the noted explorer and big game hunter bags record class Polar and Kodiak Grizzly trophies as well as a bearded seal. The Shoe String Press, hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 44532

‎[Alaska]. Haley, Julia E‎

‎Autograph Letter Signed from Julie E. Haley Daughter of Noted Sitka Pioneer and Miner Nicholas Haley Describing Her Firsthand Account of the Burning of Baranof Castle in Sitka in 1894‎

‎Sitka Ak: August 1 1894. Very good plus. 5pp. Original mailing folds. A historically-illuminating eyewitness account of the burning of Baranof Castle the famous fort built in the New Archangel Sitka by the first governor of Russian America Alexander Baranov. During Russian rule the castle was the administrative center of Russian America. Baranof Castle was the site for both the formal ceremony of the sale of Alaska to the United States and the hoisting of the first American flag in Alaska. The building was continually reconstructed throughout its tenure and fully renovated in 1893. On the night of March 17 1894 the castle caught fire and burned to the ground apparently due to the ignition of oily rags stored there. At the time of the fire the building was used as the office and residence of the U.S. Court Commissioner Robert C. Rogers. Much later in 1962 the site where the castle once stood was declared a National Historic Landmark.<br /> <br /> The author of the present letter Julia E. Haley was the only daughter of Nicholas Haley a Sitka pioneer notable miner and important early landowner with several claims close to Sitka Bay. Born raised and ultimately buried in Sitka Julia Haley owned and operated the well-known curiosity shop the "Old Indian Trading Post" on Lincoln Street in Sitka in the first two decades of the 20th century. Her store offered a variety of local products and artifacts some of which purportedly came from the ashes of Baranof Castle though Haley's account of the fire seems to refute any possibility of relics being found in the ashes. Here Haley writes to a friend identified only as "Miss Young" a schoolteacher in San Francisco. In her letter Haley provides a detailed account of the Baranof Castle fire notes the troubles people have in getting to Sitka due to "much trouble on the railroads" and briefly describes a ball given by local ladies in honor of the Bering Sea Fleet "That is the U.S. Navy ships in harbour - Yorktown Mohican Albatross Ranger Hassler Corwin Adams Bear Rush Pinta and H.M. Ship Pheasant & Areal".<br /> <br /> Haley's description of the fire reads as follows: "I suppose you have heard about the Baranof Castle. It was burnt to the ground. Not even could we have a chip in remembrance. Of it nothing could be saved. It was impossible. Judge Rogers was in the building at the time & it took all they could do to get him out. He was at the windows for 8 hours crying for help. But no one heard him. Every one was asleep. He lost everything. Nothing saved only a long coat he had on. And his poor little dog was in the attic & no one could get near him. It was a beautiful building after it as nearly repaired. So you may tell your friends that the Baranof Castle at Sitka is no more. The ground it stood on is all there. The building after being repaired was going to be occupied by the officials & we miss the view so much. It was a very pretty fire. I wished you could have seen it. The flag pole was the very last to burn. They took several views of it which looks so much like it. Every one felth sic so sorry. All the ladies watched it from one in the morning until four."<br /> <br /> A unique account of one woman's experiences in far-flung Alaska in the last decade of the 19th century with a particularly noteworthy eyewitness account of the last moments of Baranof Castle. August 1 unknown‎

Référence libraire : 2889

‎[ALASKA]. LADA-MOCARSKI, Valerian‎

‎Bibliography of books on Alaska published before 1868. . . with an introduction by Archibald Hanna Jr.‎

‎Mansfield Centre CT: Martino Fine Books c. 1969 1998. Folio. vii 1 567 1 pp. Double-page illustrated title numerous plates & facsimiles of title pages. Red cloth black & gilt spine label NF copy. First facsimile edition 1 of 200 copies reprinting the 1969 Yale University Press original. Martino Fine Books, hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 48653

‎[ALASKA]. EIDE, Arthur Hansin‎

‎Drums of Diomede. The transformation of the Alaskan Eskimo.‎

‎Hollywood CA: House-Warven Publishers 1952. Tall 8vo. 241 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations. Green textured boards gilt lettering on spine slight shelfwear w/ d.j. pictorial map cover art slight dustsoiling shelfwear NF/NF copy inscribed by author on verso of ffep. to Davis Phillips of the Cook Inlet Historical Society. First edition inscribed of this memoir of living and teaching the Inupiat Inuits on Diomede Island Alaska. House-Warven Publishers, hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 50898

‎[ALASKA]. MARTIN, Martha‎

‎Home on the bear’s domain.‎

‎New York: Macmillan Co. 1954. 8vo. viii 2 246 pp. Blue cloth white lettering on front cover spine slight shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Leo Manso minor edgewear rubbing price-clipped still NF/VG copy. First edition 1st printing of this excellent memoir of life in the Alaskan wilderness and very scarce sequel to the author’s very popular “O rugged land of gold.†Martin 1896-1959 expanded this version from her abridged short for “O Rugged Land of Gold†in Ladies’ Home Journal 1953 detailing her life in the family’s gold mining cabin of Eastern Alaska and whose publishing provided much needed income for the struggling prospecting family. In this sequel she struggles with the loss of her infant adopts two Yugoslavian children Dace & Lazar teaches them English and deals with a marauding bear frequenting their site. Macmillan Co., hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 46739

‎[ALASKA]. WITTEMANN, A[dolph].‎

‎Picturesque Alaska.‎

‎New York: A. Wittemann The Albertype Co. 58 and 60 Reade Street 1888. Oblong 12mo 7.25 x 5.25 in. 4 pp unpaginated. 12 plates of photo images on thick card stock. Pebbled red cloth decorated gilt lettering & Aurora Borealis motif on front cover black decoration punch sewn at gutter margin by red silk braid minor soiling and spotting to front cover minor edgewear still G copy w/ very nice images former ownership inscription on front pastedown. First edition of this very scarce travel view book of Alaska in the 1880s detailing Sitka the gold mines the natural wealth of the country and the Native American inhabitants including the Tlingit Eskimos in the Aleutians and the stunning totem poles to be found. There are also views of the Muir Glacier Juneau a quartz mill and the Yukon River. Adolph Wittemann and his brother Herman began working as printers in New York in 1867 and first started printing books and postcards under the Albertype name in 1887. Adolph acted not only as agent finding customers for their services but taking photographs across the country to be made into postcards. Worldcat locates 4 copies. A. Wittemann, The Albertype Co., 58 and 60, Reade Street, hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 48113

‎[Alaska]. [Travel]‎

‎Small Archive of Publications from a Cruise Aboard the S.S. Aleutian to Alaska‎

‎Seattle & Aboard S.S. Aleutian 1933. About very good. 31pp. total. A few staples and other metal fastenings. Light wear and toning. An interesting group of promotional and shipboard material produced for an Alaska cruise undertaken by members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce in June 1933. Material present here includes two issues of the shipboard newspaper "Midnight Sun" daily itineraries authored by the captain of the S.S. Aleutian a series of three pre-cruise bulletins distributed by the "excursion committee" of the Seattle Chamber an extensive fact sheet about Alaska from the same and a promotional pamphlet for the 1933 Season of the Alaska Steamship Company under whose auspices the tour was occurring. The itineraries are quite detailed and cover the the northbound portion of the journey from Seattle to Seward. The newspapers are also very interesting and provide a complete passenger manifest as well as a mix of national news President Roosevelt signing the National Industrial Recovery Act e.g. and local interest baseball scores from the Pacific Coast League. Together these typescript documents provide a good deal of information concerning the cruise and form a cogent narrative of this "business-friendship tour" and of Alaska tourism during the Depression. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 4914

‎[ALASKA]. MENZIES, Don‎

‎The Alaska Highway: A saga of the north. Edited by. . . .‎

‎Edmonton AB: Stuart Douglas 1943. Tall 8vo. 48 pp unpaginated. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations in green large double-page map centerfold. Colour-illustrated yellow softcovers totem pole illustration on front cover occasional spotting & soiling some wear still G copy w/ signatures on photos by subjects of illustrations. First edition of this informative and well-illustrated account of building the Alcan Highway or Alaskan Highway as it was being constructed during World War II for the War effort. There are five different photos with signatures and sometimes addresses of those depicted in the image. Stuart Douglas, paperback‎

Référence libraire : 48037

‎[ALASKA]. ALLEN, Willis Boyd‎

‎The red mountain of Alaska. . . .‎

‎Boston: Estes & Lauriat 1889. Tall thick 8vo. 348 pp. Frontisp. numerous plates text illusts. Illust. green cloth w/ decorative lettering in gilt & black on front cover & spine pictorial cover art minor bumping & wear to corners some rubbing to fore-edges front hinge starting still VG- copy w/ bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this installment in the author’s Dutton family travel series where they trek to Alaska to hunt for buried treasure of gold. The Red Mountain in the titles is named for Cinnabar a red ore from which mercury is extracted for gold mining. This was also published later under the title “The Gold-Hunters of Alaska.†Estes & Lauriat, hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 45954

‎[Alaska]: [Minnesota]: [Suicide]: Lindberg, Albert William‎

‎Manuscript Letter Archive of Correspondence Written to Fred Lindberg of Minnesota Most Notably Four Letters from His Brother Albert William Lindberg a Doomed Alaskan Gold Miner Who Later Committed Suicide in Nome Along with Significant Correspondence from Individuals in Nome Regarding the Suicide‎

‎Various locations including Sprague Wa.; Vancouver British Columbia; and Nome Ak 1910. Very good. Thirteen autograph letters signed totaling thirty-nine pages and a few original transmittal envelopes. Original mailing folds occasional short fold separations otherwise minor wear. Overall a well-preserved group stored in an antique wooden box from the St. Paul Rubber Company. An interesting collection of manuscript letters written to Fred Lindberg of Hallock Minnesota by his brother and other individuals participating in the Alaskan and Yukon gold rushes between 1897 and 1910. The preponderance of the correspondence relates to the ill-fated experiences of Fred's brother Albert William Lindberg who writes four letters while on his way to the Alaskan gold fields before apparently committing suicide in Nome in 1909. Albert William "Willie" Lindberg was a Swedish-American gold prospector from Minnesota who spent significant time in Washington State before trying his luck albeit unsuccessfully in Alaska.<br /> <br /> The four letters from Willie begin with his February 20 1897 letter to his brother Fred in Hallock Minnesota. With unbridled enthusiasm Willie writes from Sprague Washington that he has "heard so much about Alaska that I made up my mind to go." Willie encourages Fred to join him to work in the mines where he expects to "pick gold nuggets." Willie informs Fred that he has sold his horses and saddle and has collected about $400 with which he intends to "make a raise or go broke" in Alaska. He extolls Fred to raise his own money and come to Alaska where he intends to "make a fortchen sic fortune." Willie concludes: "And when we get there you will see one of the luckiest Swedes that ever struck Alaska." Lindberg next writes from Vancouver on March 20 1898 again to his brother Fred informing him that he is on the way to Alaska. He promises to "stake out a clame" for Fred once he gets there though he now believes that going to Alaska might be "a foolish trip." Still he intends to stay "as long as I can" in the Alaskan gold fields in the company of "an old miner he has mined for the last 35 years."<br /> <br /> Willie writes another letter on March 20 after he arrives in Juneau which he describes as "quite a town and everything is just as cheap here as in Seattle or Vancouver and food and lodging is $1.00 a day." Here Willie informs Fred that he intends to go further north to Dyea north of Skagway because "I want to go where the big strikes is made." Willie's last letter emanates from Seattle where he has apparently returned perhaps for the winter from the previous year but now informs Fred that he intends to start on his "wild goose chase again." Instead of "Cape Nome" Willie intends to go to Skagway then "down the Youkon River it is mining camps all along the Youkon River and I think it will be better up there than down at Cape Nome it is bound to be over down at Cape Nome this summer when all these people get there."<br /> <br /> Willie's letters are accompanied by a pocket-sized notebook in which he recorded a small amount of financial information for the Nome Bank in 1908-09 as well as listings of food and other goods he purchases there and a five-page diary-style entry dated February 15 1907. In the latter Willie writes introspectively about his state of mind and habits at one point noting that "at times you are liable to become blue and depressed really there is no cause to be that way." <br /> <br /> Lindberg's single diary entry in the notebook is especially intriguing considering he apparently committed suicide in Nome in 1909 according to five letters present here dated in the summer and fall of 1909. This includes two letters sent from Wentworth Brothers the undertakers in charge of Willie's remains. The first of these letters dated May 24 1909 begins: "On May 11th 1909 Mr. Lindberg W. was found in cabin on Belmount Point dead. Cause gun shot wound and the Coroners Jury brought in verdict of suicide. Two of his friends Mr. Godfry Johnson and John Olson furnished the funeral arrangements - as he was without money." In each of the two letters the undertakers ask that Fred Lindberg respond to them whether he wishes Willie to be buried in Alaska or have the body shipped to Minnesota. The other three letters were written from two of the men who found Willie's body; the authors were responding to Fred Lindberg's wife who sent letters to Nome inquiring about Willie's death. Two of the letters were written by Phillip Corrigan of the Nome Mine Workers Union in August and the third by Gotfred Johnson in September. Corrigan details finding the body wondering if "may be he was fooling with the gun and accidentally shot himself." He then writes that he has known of Willie prospecting in the area since 1907 but that he "did not find pay at any time" and had no money at the time of his death" though "he may have some claims here."<br /> <br /> In the next letter Corrigan details both a quartz and placer claim in which Willie had an interest then provides further detail on the claims and what must be done to maintain them. Johnson writes a highly-detailed five-page letter conveying his background and experiences with Willie providing important biographical material and informing Fred that Willie seemed in "good spirits" when he last saw him "3 or 4 days" before his suicide. Another letter from Nome in August 1909 is present here written on the same Nome Mine Workers Union stationery as Corrigan's letters by Carl de la Motte; the two-page letter seems to relate information on Willie but is written in Swedish.<br /> <br /> The present archive also includes four letters written to Fred Lindberg from his friend Edward A. Johnson in Circle City Alaska. Written between July 5 1905 and June 10 1906 Johnson's letters indicate he was tasked by Fred to find his brother Willie. In his first letter Johnson writes from Mastodon Creek that he has been unable to find anything "about Will." In his subsequent three letters Johnson details his search for Willie often mentioning that he expects to locate him in Fairbanks or Nome but never does. In the process Johnson relates other interesting details about Alaska and his experiences there including a report on weather patterns as they relate to the seasonal nature of the mining industry informative descriptions of the Alaskan country he visits in "the Tanana districts at Fairbanks" his decision to acquire claims near Mastodon Creek and the unreliable nature of the Alaskan postal schedule. The archive also includes several unrelated Lindberg family letters mostly written to Willard Lindberg of Hamline University in St. Paul Minnesota in the mid-1920s but these are not included in the letter and page counts above.<br /> <br /> An unusual collection of manuscript letters of particular interest to the study of suicide in American history documenting both the optimism of a young Minnesota man on his way to find fortune in the Alaskan gold fields and his tragic end by his own hand in Nome a little over a decade later. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 4010

‎[BIG GAME HUNTING -- ALASKA & BRITISH COLUMBIA/WOMEN]. SHELDON, Charles‎

‎The wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands: a hunter’s experiences while searching for Wapiti bears and Caribou on the larger Coast Islands of British Columbia and Alaska‎

‎Toronto: The Copp Clark Co. Ltd. 1912. 8vo. xvi 246 pp. Photogravure frontisp. by Carl Rungius 3 photogravure plates by Rungius numerous photo plates 5 maps 1 folding. Publisher’s blue-green cloth gilt illust. of Grizzly Bear & lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. minor shelfwear slight rubbing occasional light spotting still VG bright copy. First Canadian edition of this well-illustrated and documented account of hunting and observing on Vancouver Island Montague Island Queen Charlotte Islands and includes a chapter of his wife Louisa Walker Gulliver Sheldon’s b. 1880 experiences bear hunting on Admiralty Island. Sheldon 1867-1928 trekked by steamboat canoe pack horse and on foot with other explorers and hunters such as Frederick Selous William H. Osgood and Carl Rungius hunting caribou grizzly bears moose and other big game as well. The Copp, Clark Co., Ltd., hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 60617

‎[Canada; Alaska; Railroad]‎

‎Map of Alaska and the Yukon. Canadian Rockies and the Triangle Tour of British Columbia‎

‎Canada: Canadian National Railways 1927. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Double sided map of the railroad routes of the Canadian National Pacific Coast Services and the Canadian National Steamship Company Ltd. The map covers the area from Dawson Alaska to Portland Oregon. The verso is a pictorial map of the Triangle Tour of British Columbia Jasper National Park and Mount Robson Park with text about Jasper. <br /> <br /> Color map 17 x 30" folding 4 x 9 1/4" blue card wraps with green titles. Sml closed tear at one fold. Canadian National Railways unknown‎

Référence libraire : 26808

‎[Connaissance des Arts]‎

‎CONNAISSANCE des ARTS - N° 599 - Novembre 2002‎

‎Revue de 162 pages, format 215 x 285 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, publiée en 2002, bon état‎

‎Au sommaire : Modigliani, l'artiste maudit ; Les masques en bois d'Alaska ; Les clichés choc du Mois de la Photo‎

Référence libraire : LFA-126739309

‎[Hydrographer Of The Navy]‎

‎BERING SEA AND STRAIT PILOT North-West and North Coasts of Alaska from Cape Doughlas to the Alaska-Canada Boundary, the Aleutian Islands, and the North-East Coast of Siberia from Mys Lopatka Peninsula to Vicinity of Mys Yakan, with Off-Lying Islands‎

‎Volume 23. Including Supplement No. 1-1981 (23s). ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 373 pages‎

‎[Miroir de l'Histoire]‎

‎MIROIR de l'HISTOIRE n° 166 Octobre 1963‎

‎Une revue de 110 pages, format 170 x 230 mm, illustrée, brochée‎

‎Au sommaire, entre autres : Révélations sur l'enfance de Staline ; L'Alaska ; Le Duc de Montesquiou-Fezensac, descendant de d'Artagnan ; Brillat-Savarin invente la gastronomie ; Lamennais et la naissance du catholicisme social‎

Référence libraire : LFA019c2