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19412368Various locations in south-central Alaska 1941. Very good plus. Eighteen photographs each 6 x 8 inches most signed and titled in manuscript by the photographer. Minor wear. A collection of eighteen beautiful photographs taken by noted Alaskan photographer Maurice L. Sharp featuring various subjects and scenes around south-central Alaska in the late-1930s. The photographs were published in various issues of the Alaska Sportsman between 1938 and 1941. Most of the images are signed and titled by Sharp in the bottom margins or on the verso. The photographs feature subjects and scenes such as "Yukon Boys - Alaska" "Mt. McKinley from Wonder Lake" three images "Harbor Anchorage" "Colonist's Home Alaska" two images "Pioneer's Cabin" "Palmer Alaska" "Gulls" "Northern Lights - Anchorage" "'Leader' Alaskan sled dog" "Sunset Tide" "The Old Cache" two images an uncaptioned image of sled dogs and more. A few of the present photographs were printed by Sharp on textured paper to achieve a different more artistic result to his printed images. unknown
195250898Hollywood 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
19363570Juneau: Anderson 1936. Very good. Five silver gelatin photographs each 5.25 x 4 inches. Minor wear. Five images depicting mining operations at the A.J. Mine near Juneau Alaska. Images are captioned in the negative and signed by the photographer Anderson dated 1936. Two of them show miners at work. Titles are as follows: "Hand Loading Gate"; "Powder Bench on Bulldoze Level at A.J."; Crusher Level at A.J. Mill"; "Barring Down in Bulldoze Chamber"; and "Grizzly Chute in Bulldoze Chamber. Anderson unknown
195446739New 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
19455579Fort Richardson Ak: March 1 1945. Very good plus. 8pp. of text folded accordion style folded out to a full-page map on verso. Light soiling and toning. A seemingly unrecorded guide and map to Fort Richardson located near Anchorage Alaska. The fort opened in 1941 as the headquarters for the United States Army in Alaska. For a brief time Fort Richardson served as a holding center for fifteen Japanese American internee families. The present guide "was prepared primarily for the information and guidance of military personnel new to Fort Richardson. It presents the rules regulations and facilities of the Post for easy reference." The facilities included officers' clubs theatres a library skating rink ski bowl and much more. A total of thirty-eight of these facilities are keyed to the map of the fort printed on the verso. When folded the pamphlet measures 6 x 4 inches and folds out to a total of 12 x 15.75 inches. We could locate no other copies of this early guide to an important American military base in Alaska during the Second World War. March 1 unknown
188848113New 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
188743533London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1887. 8vo. xiv 2 248 pp. plus 32 pp. publ. ads. Frontisp. numerous text illusts. 2 colour maps 1 large folding. Illust. gray-blue cloth illust. of scene w/ kayak & canoe on front cover gilt lettering minor bumping to couple corners foot of spine minor rubbing old shelf number at foot of spine still a VG- copy. First edition of this fascinating account by the famed Victorian big game hunter archaeologist mountaineer and explorer. Seton Karr 1859-1938 describes in the book how his party were some of the first passengers to cross Canada by the new Canadian Pacific Railway then a steamship journey north where he made an attempt to scale the 18000 ft. summit of Mount St. Elias but his climbing party was forced back at 7200 feet. Of interest are also his observations of Alaskan Native Americans including a vocabulary for Chugachmiut Indians big game hunting the Aleutian Islands the Alaskan Fur Trade and more. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, hardcover
19334914Seattle & 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
193753313Anchorage AK: U.S. Department of the Interior The Alaska Railroad April 1 1937. Tall 16mo. 16 pp. Numerous photo illustrations. Printed softcovers map of The Alaska Railroad route through Alaska on back cover printed text on front minor edgewear slight creasing to corners shelfwear VG copy. Revised edition of this scarce photo-illustrated travel brochure for passengers on the Alaska Railroad during the Great Depression including images of Spencer Glacier Anchorage Palmer Fairbanks a gold dredge on the river near Fairbanks and more. U.S. Department of the Interior, The Alaska Railroad, paperback
194348037Edmonton 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
193653337New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1936. 12mo. 256 pp. Gray ribbed cloth blue lettering w/ d.j. cover art of snow-covered cowboy wearing chaps on horseback pushing snow-covered cattle slight sunning to spine 1 small closed tear very slight creasing NF/VG copy. First Grosset edition of this very scarce title set against the backdrop of the Klondike Alaskan gold rush western shootouts and more. Very scarce in dustjacket. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
188945954Boston: 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
192539563Portland OR: George Edward Lewis 1925. 12mo. 69 1 pp. Numerous text illusts. Printed gray wrappers blk lettrng & decrtn mnr shlfwr VG copy inscribed by the author on half-title. First edition inscribed by an Alaskan pioneer who eventually made the first silent movies produced in Alaska including The Chechakos Hearts of Alaska and North of Nome. Certain scenes shot of miners crossing the Chilkoot pass were used by Chaplin in The Gold Rush 1925. George Edward Lewis, unknown
ORD-128Paris. Tallandier et Nelson Doubleday. N°38, Avril 1963. In-8 (ca 138 x 210mm) broché, couverture illustrée couleurs sur les 2 plats, XII pages sur papier jaune (Actualités-Voyages) et 64 pages consacrée à l'ALASKA, nombreuses illustrations en noir et images couleurs collées dans le texte. Bel exemplaire, complet.
19104010Various 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
188076162Washington:: Government Printing Office 1880. Second Edition -- With Charts. publisher's lettered cloth. Cloth worn at the spine and extremities but tight and sound; contents apart from the vertical splits mentioned above fine. . Folio. Four charts in pocket at rear of volume. Printed "Compliments" slip of Sheldon Jackson U. S. General Agent of Education in Alaska tipped onto the title page. The collectors of the materials recorded in the Schedules were E. S. Smith assisted by William J. McDonnell Winter 1892 and 1893. There are Aleutian words and phrases recorded in ms. on dozens of pages; and in addition illustrations of a side view and ground plan of a native Western Alaskan house with detailed description; drawings of characteristic features of Eastern and Western Alaskan natives snowshoes boats paddles etc. Two of these illustrated descriptive pages have neat vertical splits not affecting legibility. Government Printing Office, hardcover
191260617Toronto: 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
193326806Canada: Canadian National Railway System 1933. Paperback. Very good overall. A tourist brochure advertising trips up the Inner Passage from Vancouver to Skagway Alaska. Extensively illustrated with a double page map centerfold. With a stamp on the last page where this was distributed by the Canadian Nat. Railways in Sydney Australia. Includes a separate sheet "Canadian National Steamships Alaska Service -1933" which shows schedules for Vancouver Prince Rupert and Skagway. The fare from Vancouver/Seattle and Victoria to Skagway round trip $90.<br /> <br /> 4to 24pp color illustrated front cover with black titles color map at centerfold staplebound. Slt. dusty cover. Canadian National Railway System paperback
192726808Canada: 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
2002LFA-126723681Revue de 162 pages, format 215 x 285 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
2002LFA-126739309Revue de 162 pages, format 215 x 285 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, publiée en 2002, bon état
193112157Alaska Steamship Company 1931. First Edition. Cardstock. Very Good. Seven menus from a 1931 voyage of the SS Yukon printed on cardstock and illustrated with black & white photographs and the "Alaska LIne" logo on the verso; one large black & white photograph on the recto mostly of Alaskan scenery but including one photograph of the SS Yukon. Slight yellowing and rubbing to edges. The ocean liner SS Yukon built in 1899 joined the Alaska Steamship Co. fleet in 1924 and remained in service until 1946 when she was wrecked off the Alaskan coast with the loss of eleven lives. Dust jacket is now preserved within a clear removable archival protector with acid-free backing. Alaska Steamship Company unknown
Volume 23. Including Supplement No. 1-1981 (23s). ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 373 pages
195056567Seattle WA: Captain Olaf H. Hansen ca. 1950. 4to. 11 leaves typescript manuscript w/ ink manuscript annotations on verso of last leaf a couple corrections. Light gray limp cover split-pin binder manuscript cover title rounded corners minor shelfwear rubbing still VG exemplar from the library of Captain Olaf Hansen 1877-1959 Danish-American sea captain from Seattle WA w/ bookplate on verso of front cover. A remarkable typescript manuscript detailing Captain Hansen’s experiences with Henry Carlton Strong 1869-1954 who not only was Ketchikan’s postmaster but also owned the Clark & Martin fish-saltery located at the mouth of Ketchikan creek. Hansen was recruited as an 18 year old to work on the steamer Alert a whiskey runner for smuggling from Port Simpson to Juneau when Alaska was still a dry Territory in order to secure the mail delivery contract. The Captain “was a part Negro and his name was Watson and was the only one available who had a second class pilot license for the Ketchikan District. . . as we had the mail contract on account of her speed.†He goes on later after picking up mail sacks that “our first stop was at Grindall where Thomlinson and Syare were located. They had a store. . . on the wall . . . I saw the lithographed map which was used in New York to make the suckers to buy stock in their mining company and it showed a fine big harbor with seven men of wars anchored in it and lots of room to spare.†Hansen jumps ship and heads back to Seattle and then down the West Coast while Strong would continue to establish and expand the Northland Steamship Company. See: Louise Brick Harrington Henry C. Strong Pioneers of Southeast Alaska Stories in the News August 10 2006. Captain Olaf H. Hansen, unknown
1963LFA019c2Une revue de 110 pages, format 170 x 230 mm, illustrée, brochée
