GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Alaska: AK-21

Alaska State Library
Andrew P. Kashevaroff (APK) Building
395 Whittier Street
Juneau, AK 99801
P.O. Box 110571
Juneau, AK 99811-0571

Phone: 907-465-2925
Email: asl.historical@alaska.gov

 

Hours: See website (Hours)

Copying facilities: Yes 

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1886-1962

Volume: Approximately 2.1 cubic feet

Description: 8 collections include Native Catholic records:

 

Manuscript Collections:

/1 “Chisholm, Kenneth, Papers, Collection MS 50” Inclusive dates: 1930-1938 Volume: Approximately .3 cubic foot (98 items)

Description: Clippings, letters, and reports; re: Expeditions to Native villages in Northern Alaska with Rev. Bernard Hubbard, S.J. [Jesuits] and sociologist R.C. Sarratt. 

 

Photograph and Graphic Collections:

/2 “Father Joseph Bernard, S.J., Photograph Collection, Collection PCA 267”

Inclusive dates: 1906-1916

Volume: 20 postcards 

Description: Black and white prints of Eskimos and Jesuits in Alaska, including Mary's Igloo Mission, Seward Peninsula, Reverend R. Crimont, S.J., Gussie and Agnes Onnakussik, and Joseph Anneak

 

/3 “Kenneth Chisholm Photograph Collection, Collection PCA 105”

Inclusive dates: 1930-1938

Volume: Ca. .3 cubic foot (94 items)

Description: By Chisholm; re: Expeditions with Rev. Hubbard, S.J., to Native villages in Northern Alaska.  

 

/4 “B.B. Dobbs Photograph Collection, Collection PCA 12” 

Inclusive dates: 1900-1910

Volume: Few photographs

Description: Black and white prints of St. Joseph Church, Nome, Alaska.

 

/5 “Father Bernard R. Hubbard Photograph Collection, Collection PCA 302”

Inclusive dates: 1891-1962

Volume: Approximately 1.5 cubic feet

Description: Photographs, clippings, periodicals, and a manuscript (handwritten and typescript) by and about Rev. Bernard Hubbard, S.J. and Eskimos and Jesuits in Alaska. 

 

/6 “Albert J. Johnson Photograph Collection, Collection PCA 113”

Inclusive dates: ca. 1908-1918

Volume: At least 1 print

Description: Immaculate Conception Church and St. Joseph Hospital, Fairbanks, Alaska. 

 

/7 “Nora E. Kreps Photograph Album, Collection PCA 411”

Inclusive dates: ca. 1908-1910

Volume: Ca. 3 prints

Description: Black and white prints of Holy Cross Mission, Holy Cross, Alaska. 

 

/8 “William H. Partridge Photograph Collection, Collection PCA 88”

Inclusive dates: 1886

Volume: 1 print

Description: Black and white print of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Juneau, Alaska. 

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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