‎Alaska‎

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‎I cercatori d'oro.‎

‎Milano, 1905, estratto con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 930/933 con ill. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.‎

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‎Nelle isole degli stregoni.‎

‎Milano, 1913, estratto con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 1060/1061 con ill. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.‎

‎[ALASKA & YUKON].‎

‎Alaska and the Yukon Alaska and Pacific Coast Cruises. . . Deck plans and brochure for the S.S. Prince George and S.S. Prince Rupert.‎

‎Montreal & Vancouver Canada: Canadian National Steamships January 1950. 4to. 8.25 x 9.4 which folds out into 8 pp unpaginated. colour illustrated double-page oblong folio 16.5 x 9.4 in. colour-illustrated self-printed softcovers showing S.S. Prince George cruising by Alaskan glaciers and totem pole cover art minor edgewear light rubbing to fold crease still VG copy w/ former travel agency marking of Dorothy Van Nuys Travel Service. First edition of this nicely printed post-World War II travel brochure for the Canadian National Steamship Co. filled with interior illustrations for the new SS Prince George a Grand Trunk steamship built and launched in 1947 for the Canadian National Steamship Co. Her sister ship was the S.S. Prince Rupert and both regularly ran the routes from Seattle to Victoria Vancouver Prince Rupert & Stewart BC and onto Skagway Alaska. The map includes details of the “Scenic Triangle Tour†of British Columbia on the Canadian National system which included stops in Jasper National Park Mount Robson Park and the Canadian Rockies. Worldcat locates copies of the later 1953 & 1954 issues but not this imprint. Canadian National Steamships, paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 59935

‎[ALASKA & YUKON].‎

‎Canadian National: Alaska and Pacific Coast cruises. Routes and services to Alaska: land of gold and romance via Canadian National steamships Map.‎

‎Montreal & Vancouver Canada; Los Angeles CA: Canadian National Railways Steamships January 1936. 4to. 8.25 x 9.4 which folds out into large 18.5 x 33.5 in. travel poster on recto map on verso colour-illustrated self-printed softcovers showing Prince Robert or Prince George cruising by Alaskan glaciers and totem pole cover art very minor shelfwear slight rubbing from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment company owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers stamp of Canadian National Railways 607 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles CA w/in box on front. First edition of this rare and striking travel brochure for the Canadian National Steamship Co. filled with photographic views of sights in Wrangell Juneau Ketchikan Taku Glacier Skagway White Pass Lake Atlin and interspersed with striking Art Deco graphics in vivid orange purple green & black. The SS Prince Rupert & SS Prince George sister ships were constructed 1909-1910 at Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. both regularly running for decades the routes from Seattle to Victoria Vancouver Prince Rupert & Stewart BC and onto Skagway Alaska. The map includes details of the “Scenic Triangle Tour†of British Columbia on the Canadian National system which included stops in Jasper National Park Mount Robson Park and the Canadian Rockies. Worldcat locates 3 copies Bancroft Wisconsin Hist. Soc. Queens Univ. Ont. Canadian National Railways, Steamships, paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 59748

‎[Alaska - Mining - Golovin Bay Region] Pioneer Commercial Company‎

‎Album of Photographs Showing the Pioneer Commercial Company’s Mining Operations in Ophir Creek Near Golovin Bay c. 1897-1901‎

‎Alaska 1901. Oblong folio 12 ½ x 9 inches. Twelve leaves with 89 photographs rebound in modern cloth. Binding in fine condition photographs generally excellent some leaves with clear tape repairs. A well preserved album of photographs showing mining operations in the Golovin Bay region about fifty to seventy-five miles northwest of Nome during the tail end of the Klondike Gold Rush period in 1900-1901. The album shows the operations of the Pioneer Company in Alaska in great detail including the travel by boat and the camps along Opher Creek as well as many photographs of the mining operation itself. According to a caption in one of the photographs $12000 worth of gold was taken out of the “Discovery Claim†on Ophir Creek. The album also includes several photographs of the indigenous population. The compiler of the book appears to have been a student at a mining college at some point as some of the photographs show a “Class of ‘04’†sign. The photographs are dated from 1897 to 1901. Interior scenes and a particularly broad portrayal of mining life and operations make this an uncommonly informative photographic document of Alaskan mining operations during this period. <br /> <br /> Lowny J.D. The Golovin Bay Region of Northwestern Alaska. In: The Engineering and Mining Journal Vol. 71 pp. 781-782. June 15 1901. Accessed online 6/23. unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : List2108

‎[ALASKA - Maritime]‎

‎Original Photo British Columbia Coast S. S. Princess Charlotte at Skagway Alaska Framed Photograph‎

‎1930. Matted framed photograph. Very Good. Black & white platinum photo print in 4 x 6 inch light green matte behind glass 10 x 11.5 inch wood frame. The Princess Fleet were the coastal passenger liners of the Canadian Pacific Railway which also ran the ocean-going Empress Fleet. The Charlotte was commissioned by Captain J. W. Troup and built at the Fairfield shipyard near Glasgow in 1908 to be the finest flyer on the Pacific Coast when it entered service in the summer of 1909. The initial route was Victoria - Vancouver - Seattle. We estimated the date of our photo by examining crew and passenger attire. unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 4960

‎[ALASKA - MARITIME]. WEST, A[vedis] Warren‎

‎The scarlet charm: a romance of Alaska. With an introduction by Captain Argyle McTavish. Illustrations by Willard Vaughn.‎

‎Boston: Chapple Publishing Co. Ltd. 1929. 8vo. 10 302 pp. Frontisp. plates map. Scarlet-coloured publisher’s cloth illustrated endpapers very slight shelfwear offset toning from removed bookmark at gutter margin w/ d.j. cover art by Willard Vaughn minor sunning to spine dustsoiling minor shelfwear still NF/VG copy inscribed by the author on ffep. First edition inscribed of this maritime adventure romance written by the San Francisco author in homage to Jack London set against the backdrop of competing fishing fleets in the Alaskan north. West 1898-1957 was a San Francisco journalist originally from Minneapolis who also wrote around the same time an informative “Bibliography of the Writings of Jack London†issued by Chapple Publishing the same year whose papers are held by the University of Oregon. This was his only work of fiction. Worldcat locates 8 copies U of AK Cal Hist. Soc. SJSU Yale DLC U of MN Ohio State Utah State. Chapple Publishing Co., Ltd., hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 62096

‎[ALASKA -- WHITE PASS & YUKON STEAMSHIP & RAILROAD ROUTE].‎

‎A hand book of vacation trips in Alaska Atlin and the Yukon on the White Pass and Yukon Route.‎

‎Chicago: Poole Bros. Inc. 1928. Oblong 16mo. 59 1 pp. Photo illusts. 1 map. Photo-illust. self-printed wrappers slight shelfwear NF copy stapled as issued. First edition thus of this travel brochure detailing the trip by steamship and railroad along the White Pass & Yukon Route from Skagway Alaska to Dawson City on the Yukon River Yukon Territory. Poole Bros., Inc., unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 46131

‎[ALASKA -- KLONDIKE]. McLAIN, John Scudder‎

‎Alaska and the Klondike. Illustrated from photographs.‎

‎New York: McClure Phillips & Co. 1907. Thick 8vo. xiv 2 330 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates illustrations. Green ribbed cloth embossed & gilt lettering & decoration on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear very minor rubbing still VG bright copy from the author’s library w/ McLain bookplate on front pastedown presented to Mrs. John Howard Todd in January 1925 by the author w/ handwritten note laid-in identifying Onesime Sovey who went to the gold rush in 1897 with George Smith Portland Druggist. First edition presentation author’s copy signed of this excellent work detailing the fact finding tour by the author with the Senate Committee on Territories which visited Alaska and the Yukon in 1903. McClure, Phillips & Co., hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 47374

‎[ALASKA -- STEAMPSHIP MAP]. [PETERSON, HN(General Passenger Agent).] H N‎

‎Alaska: enjoy America’s fjords. . . promotional brochure & map.‎

‎Seattle WA: Alaska Steamship Co. Printed by Metropolitan Press 1940. 12mo. 3.5 x 8 in. 24 pp unpaginated. brochure which folds out into 21 x 16 in. broadside promotional advertisement w/ photo illustrations around border numerous colour colour-tinted and photo text illustrations on verso pictorial colour map w/ comic strip and in-set map of inlet around Valdez. Self-printed colour-illustrated and printed softcovers cover art w/ scenes of Alaska Native Americans slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition thus of this beautifully printed travel brochure and route map for the Alaska Steamship Company and their Copper River & Northwestern Railroad routes along the Copper River region in Alaska the Prince William Sound and more. The several cruises and possible tour packages offered by the company for summer travel are detailed and further embellished with photographs and artwork by Eustace Paul Ziegler 1881-1969 noted Seattle artist who captured Alaskan travels and life for 60 years. No copies in Worldcat. Alaska Steamship Co., [Printed by Metropolitan Press], paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 55317

‎[ALASKA -- ANCHORAGE & THE ALASKA RAILROAD ARCHIVE]. [EDES, William C (Chairman), MEARS, Frederick (Engineer), & RIGGS, Jr, Thom‎

‎An exceptional archive of 86 original silver print photographs chronicling the transformation of Anchorage Alaska Territory from the village of Ship Creek and the construction of the Seward-Anchorage railroad line by the Alaska Engineering Commission AEC. These striking images capture steamships landing dynamiting of obstructions camp construction unloading of railroad car trucks from Panama and railroad lines under construction with many featuring the sweeping Alaskan vistas in the background.‎

‎Anchorage & Seward A.T.: Alaska Engineering Commission AEC Phinney S. Hunt ca. 1916-1917. 4to. 86 silver print photographs sized 6.25 x 8.25 in. nearly all w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative at lower fore-edge as well as caption negative number and AEC some w/ occasional pencil annotations on verso all preserved in mylar sleeves occasional creasing at corners a couple w/ slight loss at corners in the small blank margin. Recent 3-ring clamshell binder an excellent set of photos with all retaining bright strong contrast. This outstanding photo archive provides not only some of the earliest photographs of Anchorage Alaska Territory but also this immense railroad project first authorized by the US Congress in 1912. The few existing privately-run railroads operating in Alaska at the time including the Alaska Northern Railway and the Tanana Valley Railroad primarily fulfilled the needs of the mining companies carrying resources to sea ports and very little allowance was made for passenger traffic and it was impossible to travel by rail from Ship’s Creek at the Cook Inlet north to Fairbanks. Through an April 1915 executive order President Wilson directed that the newly created Alaska Engineering Commission construct a railroad along the surveyed “Western Route†from Seward or Portage Bay along the Turnagain & Knik Arms of Cook Inlet North through the Suitna Valley and then follow the Nenana River until it joined the Tanana with the intent it would connect eventually to Fairbanks. Employing discarded surplus railroad equipment from the Panama Canal Railroad project and under the direction of engineer Mears who had worked on both the Panama Canal and Great Northern Railroads the tiny tent city of Ship’s Creek swelled to 5500 people within two years and was officially labeled by the Post Office as “Anchorage.†Photos included here reveal the barren original landscape of Ship’s Creek with one of the photos showing the steam launches “Alaska†& “Seagull†who carried cargo and passengers from ships offshore. In addition there are views of the construction of the immense AEC Railway machine shop by Sept. 1916 as well as the newly completed first Railroad Depot in Anchorage with the progression of buildings erected beyond. These early views of the fast developing project portray the Commissary Hospital Bunkhouses finished machine shop interiors of the powder house for blasting along with a view of the AEC’s photo studio and the completed electrical power house. Early street views of the nascent city are quite scarce and one of particular interest shows Fourth Ave. looking East with newly built stores and homes built along both sides of the roadway stretching into the distance. Brutal working conditions continually interfered with the pace of the project with one of the images showing the AEC’s “Electric Thawing Machine†on a sled whie others depict piles of snow work camps in snow and even sternwheeler and docks trapped in an ice flow in March 1917. A couple of the photographs feature the sternwheeler SS Omineca underway which had been originally constructed in 1909 for the Grand Trunk Railway running the Skeena River from 1909-1912 and powered by the original SS Caledonia’s engines. By the end of 1916 60 miles of track had been laid 100 miles were graded and right-of-way cleared for 230 miles with photos in this archive showing AEC Construction camps at various mile markers blasting activity and track laying. At the same time they rehabilitated the bankrupt Alaska Northern Railroad tracks and by Oct. 24 1917 the first AEC Railway train reached the Chickaloon coal mines 74 miles North of Anchorage. The railroad would actually not be finished until 1923 when the Tanana River Bridge was completed and last 57 miles of track to Fairbank converted to standard gauge. Photos also show the Anchorage Baseball Field which featured games for the Cook Inlet Baseball League composed at the time of Matanuska Anchorage and Turnagain Arm teams. There’s also a very fine series of the Decoration Day parade held May 30 1917 depicting many of the main streets and businesses in the background. In addition several photographs show the ocean docks completed which allowed ships to directly dock at Anchorage rather than lightering passengers and cargo to shore prior to 1917. Hunt 1866-1917 originally worked as a California optician before trekking to Valdez Alaska as a gold rush prospector but quickly established himself as a photographer opening his studio and documenting Valdez and development of the region. He would bring his wife and children to Alaska by 1907. He later secured work as one of the AEC’s official photographers shooting some of the early survey work by 1914 and through the project until suffering a heart attack Oct. 14 1917 in Seward AK. Hunt’s son A.O. Hunt also worked as an assistant photographer for the AEC. A few of these images appear as negatives in the Alaska State Library Historical Collections with a couple shown in their Digital Archives and some appear in the Alaska Engineering Commission archive at the U of W Collect. No. PH0495 but the bulk of that collection features photographs by James McPherson H.G. Kaiser and A.J. Johnson who were the other official photographers on the project; See: Phinney S. Hunt Photographs of Alaska 1902-1909 Photographs in and around Valdez and Sitka Alaska University of Washington Special Collections; Phinney S. Hunt Obituary Alaska Railroad Record Vol. I No. 49 Oct. 16 1917 p. 389. Alaska Engineering Commission, AEC, Phinney S. Hunt, unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 59078

‎[ALASKA -- BIG GAME HUNTING]. RADCLYFFE, Captain C[harles] R[obert] E[ustace].‎

‎Big game shooting in Alaska.‎

‎London: Rowland Ward Ltd. 1904. Tall 8vo. xvi 292 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. 44 photos and plates 1 large folding map in rear pocket. Green publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine simulated Zebra skin endpapers minor bumping to corners edgewear slight spotting on the spine still VG copy. First edition of this excellent early account of hunting on the Kenai Peninsula including descriptions of Alaskan Native Americans salmon cannery operations and more. Radclyffe had acquired a permit from the Bureau of Biological Survey with the USDA in order to collect big game specimens for the British Museum and the account was dedicated to a longtime fellow hunter and friend Theodore Roosevelt. The author details his experiences with hunting Alaskan Brown Bears Grizzly Bears Moose Dall Sheep and running afoul of the zealous US Deputy Marshal Sexton a stickler for the new game regulations instituted on the Kenai in 1903 not to mention destroying the distilling operation of Alaskan hunter & miner Andrew Berg. He managed to survive a charging bear sow after being abandoned by his guide as well as the Alaskan courtroom but his companions were not so lucky as the judge ruled that the permit did not extend to the hunting party. Radclyffe returned later to hunt Alaska on the Kenai in August 1910 employing Andrew Berg as his head guide. See: Catherine Cassidy Alaska’s No. 1 Guide: The History and Journals of Andrew Berg 1869-1939 pp. 28-29 38. Rowland Ward Ltd., hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 55454

‎[ALASKA -- WOMEN]. FORREST, Elizabeth Chabot‎

‎Daylight moon.‎

‎New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1937. 8vo. x 2 340 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Beige publisher’s cloth pictorial maps on endpapers purple lettering on spine w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art of dogsled team across the Arctic landscape minor chipping & edgewear to upper & lower fore-edges head & foot of spine still NF/G copy. Third printing of this insightful memoir by Forrest b. 1892 written during her three years working as a teacher with her then husband Earle Forrest amongst the Inuit community of Wainwright Alaska. The work is still cited as an accurate depiction of life in Alaska during the opening decades of the 20th Century and her artifact collection of Inuit Scrimshaw and Traditional tools were donated to the Museum of Man in San Diego while her notebooks which focused on Inuit culture cooking and foodways were donated to Bowling Green. This dustjacket cover art differs from the first printing. Frederick A. Stokes Co., hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 60206

‎[ALASKA -- STEAMSHIP PASSENGER LIST].‎

‎List of passengers. S.S. Baranof sailing from Seattle July 14 1937. Alaska passenger list. Sailing sheltered seas. . . .‎

‎Seattle WA: Alaska Steamship Co. Printed by Frank McCaffrey 1937. 8vo. 8 pp unpaginated. With colour text illustrations. Colour-illustrated and printed softcovers Art Deco cover art & lettering photos of Alaska on front cover border metallic ink turquoise & pink slight shelfwear NF copy w/ Nordale Hotel receipt for Frank L. Poole of Tacoma laid-in July 26 1937. First edition thus of this beautifully printed passenger list for the SS Baranof a 373 foot steamship displacing 8900 tons one of 16 ships in the fleet operated by Alaska Steamship Company operating out of Seattle to Skagway Seward and Nome. Alaska Steamship Co., [Printed by Frank McCaffrey], paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 54760

‎[ALASKA -- KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH]. DIETZ, Arthur Arnold‎

‎Mad rush for gold in frozen north. Illustrations from photographs by W.A. Sharp.‎

‎Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House 1914. 8vo. 281 1 pp. With photo frontisp. photo plates plates illustrations historiated initials. Pictorial blue publisher’s cloth cover art in gilt silver & red of musher on an iceflow gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing still VG bright copy from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz and Joseph Luke Janulaw 1893-1937 a Los Angeles CA fireman w/ ownership markings on front pastedown. First edition of this sensationalistic Klondike gold rush memoir recounting the experiences of 18 gold seekers from the YMCA setting out from New York Feb. 1 1897. After voyaging on a condemned brigantine with a drunken captain they purportedly attempted the Malaspina Glacier trek to the gold fields traversing from Yakutat Bay across the Wrangell-St. Elias range and dropping into the headwaters of the Tanana and Yukon Rivers. The absorbing tale is filled with contradictions as it relates the loss of three into ice crevasses madness while wintering in a cabin starving retreat across icefields and finally rescue by a passing revenue cutter. See: Terrence Cole Klondike Literature: These Alaska Gold Rush Tales Share a Prominent Characteristic with the Region’s Mountainous Terrain -- They are Very Tall. Columbia Magazine WHS 2008 Vol. 22 No. 2 pp. 9-16; Kurutz Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes A Descriptive Bibliography 172. Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 61710

‎[ALASKA -- NATIVE AMERICANS NORTHWEST COAST].‎

‎Our heritage: Thlingets Tsimpsheans Haidas. . . .‎

‎Ketchikan AK: United States Indian School ca. 1934. 4to. 59 1 leaves. With 21 leaves of plates illustrating Alaskan Native American basket weaving patterns totem pole designs and other motifs. Green colour-tinted softcovers cover art photo & illustration by Jones Yeltatazie b. 1897 famed Alaskan Haida carver uniform light interior toning underlining corrections and notes by Voget still VG- copy from the library of Frederick Voget 1913-1997 noted American anthropologist and expert on the Crow Indians. First lithoprint mimeograph edition of this very scarce cultural and ethnological history of the Tlingit Haida & Tsimshian Indigenous Peoples drawn from the oral and written accounts by Native American students at the United States Indian School in Ketchikan AK when it was still operating before World War II. Featuring extended discussions of the Alaskan Indigenous Peoples folklore cultural heritage along with illustrations and discussions of their clothing food weapons hunting fishing architecture arts paintings wood carving totem poles canoes trade religion shamanism and much more. Established originally in 1903 the United States Indian School in Ketchikan was intended to educate and assimilate Indigenous Children into mainstream Euro-caucasian culture but following the 1929 decision of Irene Jones vs. Ketchikan Bureau of Education when Judge Harding had ruled that forcing Native American children to continue to be segregated from mainstream public schools was discrimination the boarding school was closed following the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act. The building is now part of the Univ. of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan campus. This original report is quite scarce and although Harvard is the only actual copy listed in Worldcat due to improper mixing of Kirtas Technology reprints & computer copies it is difficult to discern exactly how many originals are still retained. United States Indian School, paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 63562

‎[ALASKA -- WOMEN AUTHORS]. WILLOUGHBY, Barrett [BARRETT, Florence].‎

‎River house.‎

‎Boston: Little Brown and Co. 1936. 8vo. 6 389 1 pp. Black publisher’s cloth dark red lettering minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Anton Otto Fischer minor creasing edgewear couple slight closed tears still VG/VG copy. First hardcover edition of this Alaskan novel first serialized as “The Captive Bride†in The American Magazine. Willoughby 1886-1959 noted Alaskan author of romantic fiction and nonfiction who was bestselling author through the 1920’s and 1930’s. Little, Brown, and Co., hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 63942

‎[ALASKA -- ART/WOMEN]. JONES, H Wendy‎

‎The man and the mountain: the life of Sydney Laurence plus an anthology of Alaskan prose and poetry. . . .‎

‎Anchorage AK: Alaskan Publishing Co. and Graphic Arts Press 1962. 4to. 1 xiii 76 pp. Photo frontisp. 50 plates & text illustrations including 42 of Laurence paintings. Illustrated softcovers cover art of Laurence painting blue lettering plastic comb-binding as issued minor shelfwear some very minor rubbing still VG copy inscribed on verso of front cover by Jeanne Laurence b. 1887-1980 artist and widow of Sydney Laurence author of “My Life with Sydney Laurence†as gift for Loma Underwood from Margaret Krogstad w/ ALS on illustrated stationery from Margaret to Loma dated 1962. First edition inscribed of this retrospective biography and catalogue of Sydney Laurence’s 1865-1940 foremost Alaskan painter whose artwork such as Going to the Potlatch and The Vanishing Race graced travel posters and brochures to Alaska for decades. Of additional interest is the inclusion of a wide range of 28 additional Alaskan authors and writers’ poetry and short writings including Sybil London Bates -- Jack London’s daughter Frances Anater Robert Atwood Shirley Barrett Carmen Compney Jr Edythe Corbin Anne Townsend and others. Alaskan Publishing Co. and Graphic Arts Press, paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 57025

‎[ALASKA -- DE WITT]. LAMBERT, Clara‎

‎The story of Alaska. With pictures by C.ornelius H. De Witt and text by. . . .‎

‎New York: Harper & Brothers 1940. 4to. 40 pp unpaginated. Colour and sepia-toned illusts. & plates throughout. Quarter-blue cloth over colour-illustrated boards colour-illustrated endpapers very minor edgewear minor rubbing to couple corners w/ d.j. cover art by De Witt very minor chipping head & foot of spine couple very slight closed tears VG/VG- copy. First edition stated H-P code of a bright copy of this wonderful installment in the Regions of America Series featuring Alaska relating the tales about its animals native Americans mining logging fishing and much more. De Witt 1905-1995 was a German-American artist who emigrated to the US in 1928 and a very successful book illustrator for Harper’s Regions of America series 1940-1948 The Little Golden ABC Golden Geography and the first edition of the Golden Book Encyclopedia. Harper & Brothers, hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 55133

‎[ALASKA ALUTIIQ -- KODIAK BAPTIST MISSION]. MITCHELL, Carrie B[ell (Missionary & Compiler).]‎

‎Story of Alaska: Kodiak Diary scrapbook chronicling the career and experiences of Carrie Mitchell appointed by the Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society to act as nurse cleaner and missionary at the Kodiak Mission School in the McWhinnie Cottage from 1944-1946 at the end of World War II.‎

‎Hutchinson KS & Kodiak Alaska Territory: Carrie B. Mitchell Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society Alaska Steamship Co. 1944-1969. Oblong folio. 11.5 x 17 in. 36 pp unpaginated. on brown sack paper. With over 100 pieces of ephemera neatly affixed with tape including 6 silver gelatin photographs & RPPC’s clippings numerous ALS & TLS on letterhead some preserved in the original envelopes postcards missals programmes and more. Wooden spruce plywood post-binder sewn at gutter margin w/ cord decoupaged front cover w/ pictograms and “Story of Alaska†w/ totem pole motifs leather strap hinges held by brass brads some scuffing edgewear occasional toning scuffing to a few pieces still a VG exemplar. This intriguing scrapbook carefully documents the aspiration of Carrie Mitchell 1890-1979 to travel as a missionary to Kodiak Alaska Territory during World War II where she served as housemother to McWhinnie cottage at the Kodiak Baptist Mission School & Orphanage from 1944-1946. In classical Alutiiq Athabascan and Inupiaq societies orphans were typically adopted into wealthy Indigenous Peoples families as laborers working in return for food clothing and shelter. Often mistreated this would occasionally result in violent revenge against the tribes by the orphans. After 1893 the Kodiak Baptist Mission established their school and cottage system to educate clothe and prepare the orphans or abandoned Alutiiq children for society. Unfortunately the Baptist Mission forbade the Indigenous Peoples spiritual rituals or Russian Orthodoxy -- the predominant religious beliefs of the Kodiak area peoples and forced them to convert to Baptist beliefs. In some cases the children were forcibly removed against the will of their parents and were not orphans to receive vocational instruction and religious training at the Mission. Jan. 25 1944 Alice Crimson Executive Secretary to the W.A.B.H.M.S. wrote to Carrie how she and her staff were wondering if she would be interested “in going to Alaska as Assistant to the missionary in one of our children’s homes. It is not a managing position. It is a position of helping to make a home by assuming a share of the cooking cleaning even the washing as well as the mending of clothes. . . .†Several letters included here pass back and forth discussing Carrie’s interview her need to stay available and not travel to Texas to visit her daughter application for applying for a pass with the Headquarters Alaskan Dept. Base Echelon including fingerprint card and travel instructions. Due to wartime shortages after approval Carrie Mitchell’s travel was delayed after April 1944 because sailing times to Kodiak were curtailed but she would finally reach Kodiak AK in mid-May 1944. The grueling position had been opened because Cecile Tucker who had been housemother to McWhinnie beginning in June 1941 had decided to leave. M. Tucker regularly took care of 12-17 Alutiiq children and before being assigned to Alaska had spent 17 years working the the Mono Indigenous Peoples in the Auberry CA Baptist Mission School. Two original letters from one of Carrie Mitchell’s Indigenous charges George Yosheda 1928-2003 at McWhinnie House writes to her after leaving McWhinnie to attend school in Wrangell AK and she notes on the outside of the envelope that he was “a little homesick I think.†In his second letter from 1945 he writes about how he “can play basketball. . . if I don’t have anything to do I usually go for a walk or play the guitar.†She writes on an ALS from Enid Myers that Enid “gave up the work in Sept. 1944. That left me alone with a houseful of children until the Chandlers came. The other staff members helped me as much as they could.†By March 1946 the workload had worn her down and she wanted to retire from the position. Alice crimson writes her again that “I am very happy that you are staying in Alaska until I can find someone who will go in your place. I realize that it is difficult work physically and I think you would be wise to come out when we can replace you.†Thank you cards notices theatre programmes and several clippings concerning the 1964 Earthquake and Tsunami which struck Alaska appear within the scrapbook. See: Timothy Smith The Evangel Returns to Kodiak for the First 4th of July since Statehood July 1959 Tanignak 2020. Orphan -- Liliya’aq Alutiiq Museum Archaeological Repository 2025. Carrie B. Mitchell, Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society, Alaska Steamship Co., hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 63533

‎[ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY THE ALASKA LINE]‎

‎ALASKA‎

‎Seattle: Alaska Steamship Company 1933. 1933. 10 3/4" x 7 3/4" in colorful pictorial wrappers showing a husky on the left side and a colorful totem pole on the right side of the cover panel. 40 pp. illustrations map. Romantic depiction of Sailing Sheltered Seas to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Descriptions of what the tourist can expect to see while cruising through the Inside Passage to Ketchikan Wrangell Juneau the Gastineau Channel Skagway Sitka Cordova the Columbia Glacier Valdez Seward Fairbanks etc. Much information about traveling the famous "Golden Belt Line Tour" via the Alaska Railroad. Listing of 6 cruises and tours for the summer season lasting from 11-23 days. Inside rear wrapper is a pocked containing a 22" x 32" color map of Alaska showing the various routes. Map has splitting at some folds and with 1/4" x 1/2" chip missing at one fold. Illustrations of various scenes printed in green red pink or burnt orange at bottom of every page to include illustrations of Victoria the Grenville Channel Chief Shake's House Alaska-Juneau gold mining company Lake Eyak Kennecott interiors of various cabins etc. Black and white photographs opposite each page of text to include photos of the various ships' interiors and exteriors Fairbanks Seward Child's Glacier Mount Fairweather Chilkoot Ketchikan etc. Wrappers lightly soiled with rubbing to spine light chipping to bottom edge and foxing to rear wrapper. Very good. Filled with information this is a nicely produced booklet. Alaska Steamship Company, 1933. unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 39433

‎[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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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

书商的参考编号 : 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>‎

书商的参考编号 : 100825