Ted C. Hinckley Papers, 1830-1987

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Hinckley, Ted C.
Title
Ted C. Hinckley Papers
Dates
1830-1987 (inclusive)
Quantity
30.5 linear feet
Collection Number
XOE_CPNWS0063hinckley (collection)
Summary
The Ted C. Hinckley Papers consist primarily of the research and reference materials used by Hinckley during his professional career as a historian. While some original manuscript material is represented in the collection, the bulk of the material is comprised of duplicate copies and transcriptions from primary sources.
Repository
Western Washington University, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Goltz-Murray Archives Building
808 25th St.
Bellingham, WA
98225
Telephone: (360) 650-7534
cpnws@wwu.edu
Access Restrictions

The collection is open to the public.

Languages
English.
Sponsor
Funding for preparing this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Funding for encoding the finding aid was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Ted C. Hinckley was born in New York City in 1925 and received his public school education in Pasadena, CA. He fought with the United States Navy’s Torpedo Squadron 6 during World War II. Hinckley received his BA from Claremont McKenna College, graduating in its first four-year class in 1950. While there he married Scripps student Caryl Chesmore to whom he remained happily devoted for over fifty years. Hinckley later received a BS from Northwest Missouri State University and then an MA from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Hinckley was awarded a PhD in History from Indiana University in 1961. Hinckley taught History at San Jose State University for thirty-one years. During and after his tenure at the university, Hinckley traveled the globe with teaching assignments in Europe, Latin America, Alaska, Micronesia, and as a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Gadja Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Hinckley and his wife happily retired to Lake Whatcom near Bellingham, WA. During his retirement, he spent many years as a shipboard history teacher with United States Navy's PACE program. Among Hinckley's publications are diverse anthologies and three scholarly volumes on America's nineteenth century Alaskan frontier. He also wrote many scripts and screenplays, as well as a children’s book.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Ted C. Hinckley Papers consist primarily of the research and reference materials used by Hinckley during his professional career. While some original manuscript material is represented in the collection, the bulk of the material is comprised of duplicate copies and transcriptions from primary sources. The series and sub-series arrangement reflects the original order of Hinckley’s files.

The Ted C. Hinckley Papers consist primarily of the research and reference materials used by Hinckley during his professional career. While some original manuscript material is represented in the collection, the bulk of the material is comprised of duplicate copies and transcriptions from primary sources. The series and sub-series arrangement reflects the original order of Hinckley’s files.

Hinckley's papers also contain research materials on Sheldon Jackson, a Presbyterian missionary to Alaska who was responsible in large part for developing the state's education system and advocating Natives rights and education. Hinckley contracted with Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska, to write a biography of the man and history of the institution. The materials date from around 1867 to 1996 and consist of publications, biographical/historical materials, correspondence, and subject-based reference files. Hinckley also wrote and published a biography of John G. Brady, Territorial Governor of the state of Alaska from 1897 to 1906. Hinckley's papers contain research materials relating to Brady that span from 1867 to 1982. They consist of publications, biographical/historical materials, correspondence, and subject-based reference files.

Also contained within Hinckley's papers is a wealth of supplementary research information on various Alaskan themes that were relevant to his work. Dating from around 1867-1990, these materials consist of bibliographies and guides to sources about Alaska and subject-based reference files. There is also material relating to non-Alaskan themes that was relevant to Hinckley’s research. This information pertains to American Indians and missionaries in other areas of the world, as well as general United States history reference material.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

Ted C. Hinckley Papers, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA 98225-9123.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

are arranged in accordance with the following series and subseries arrangement

  • Series I: The Canoe Rocks files, circa 1857-1995
    • Subseries 1: Chapter-based reference material, circa 1954-1982
    • Subseries 2: Other Canoe Rocks Files by subject, circa 1868-1987
  • Series II: Sheldon Jackson files, circa 1789-1996
    • Subseries 1: Publications, circa 1870-1985
    • Subseries 2: Biographical/Historical, circa 1834-1996
    • Subseries 3: Correspondence, 1883-1909
    • Subseries 4: Subject files, 1789-1985
  • Series III: John G. Brady files, circa 1853-1982
    • Subseries 1: Publications and lectures about Brady, circa 1896-1982
    • Subseries 2: Historical/Biographical reference materials, circa 1848-1973
    • Subseries 3: Correspondence, 1887-1906
    • Subseries 4: Government and politics, circa 1879-1905
    • Subseries 5: Professional career, circa 1875-1918
    • Subseries 7: Subject files, 1853-1967
  • Series IV: Alaska subject files, circa 1867-1990
    • Subseries 1: Archival Collection Guides and Bibliographies, circa 1920-1976
    • Subseries 2: Alaska, General historical materials, circa 1850-1985
    • Subseries 3: Alaska Subject files, 1830-1987
  • Series V: Non-Alaska subject files, circa 1867-1975

Acquisition Information

Donated by Ted C. Hinckley in 1999.

Processing Note

Part of the collection was initially processed by Meggan Sibbert at the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies in 2002. Re-engineering of the collection and processing of 25 additional shoeboxes was conducted by Rozlind Koester at the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies in 2006.

Processing Note

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Bibliography

Hinckley, Ted C. The Canoe Rocks: Alaska's Tlingit and the Euramerican frontier, 1800-1912. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series I :  The Canoe Rocks: Alaska's Tlingit and the Euro-American Frontier, 1800-1912 , circa 1857-1995 Return to Top

This series consists of reference materials collected and filed by Ted Hinckley in the process of writing The Canoe Rocks. The creator of the collection arranged his files according to how he used the materials for the publication. The original order has been maintained. The collection includes materials cited in various drafts, reworks, and the final draft, and sources referenced but not cited. The reference materials consist of both primary and secondary source documents. Series I is divided into subseries by chapter, except for the final subseries which is comprised of reference materials on specific subjects.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries One: Preface
>circa 1954-1982
Box/Folder
1/1
Reference materials
circa 1954-1982
Subseries Two : "The Tlingit Defeat Iron Man"
circa 1911-1987
Box/Folder
1/2-1/5
Reference materials
circa 1911-1987
Subseries Three : "Blows from the Acculturation Hammer"
circa 1868-1995
Box/Folder
1/6-1/8
Reference materials
circa 1868-1995
Subseries Four : "A Double Eagle, a Lion and a Unicorn, and a Bald Eagle"
circa 1868-1987
Box/Folder
1/9-1/11
Reference materials
circa 1868-1995
Subseries Five : "Boomers' Dreams and Harsh Realities"
circa 1857-1987
Box/Folder
1/12-1/15
Reference materials
circa 1857-1987
Subseries Six : "Firewater and Fire Boats"
1867-1994
Box/Folder
1/16-1/18
Reference materials
1867-1994
Subseries Seven : "The Army Interlude"
circa 1860-1984
Box/Folder
1/19-1/20
Reference materials
circa 1860-1984
Subseries Eight : "Power Abhors a Vacuum"
circa 1869-1964
Box/Folder
2/1-2/2
Reference materials
circa 1869-1964
Subseries Nine : "Bible, Bullets, and Beardslee"
circa 1870-1909
Box/Folder
2/3-2/4
Reference materials
circa 1870-1909
Subseries Ten : "Construction and Deconstruction"
circa 1879-1984
Box/Folder
2/5-2/7
Reference materials
circa 1879-1984
Subseries Eleven : "Governors without Uniforms"
circa 1870-1984
Box/Folder
2/8-2/10
Reference materials
circa 1870-1984
Subseries Twelve : "Beast of Burden, Willing Workers, or What?"
circa 1868-1975
Box/Folder
2/11-2/13
Reference materials
circa 1868-1975
Subseries Thirteen : "Urbanization"
circa 1879-1990
Box/Folder
2/14-2/17
Reference materials
circa 1879-1990
Subseries Fourteen : "Missionaries and Teachers"
circa 1870-1979
Box/Folder
3/1-3/3
Reference materials
circa 1870-1979
Subseries Fifteen : "Preservation Anomalies"
circa 1862-1979
Box/Folder
3/4-3/7
Reference materials
circa 1862-1979
Subseries Sixteen : "Ambiguous Allies for Native Rights"
circa 1890-1976
Box/Folder
3/8-3/11
Reference materials
circa 1890-1976
Subseries Seventeen : "Sustenance and Symbols"
circa 1870-1990
Box/Folder
4/1-4/2
Reference materials
circa 1870-1990
Subseries Eighteen : "A Societal Scrambling"
circa 1875-1980
Box/Folder
4/3-4/8
Reference materials
circa 1875-1980
Subseries Nineteen : "Conclusion"
circa 1850-1988
Box/Folder
4/9-4/10
Reference materials
circa 1850-1988
Subseries Twenty : Other Canoe Rocks files by subject
circa 1868-1987
Box/Folder
5/1
Health and Disease
circa 1884-1972
5/2
Women
circa 1892-1986
5/3
Tlingit
circa 1870-1967
5/4
Illustrative materials
circa 1868-1987
5/5
Photographs and negatives
circa 1880-1980

Series II:  Sheldon Jackson Materials, circa 1789-1996Return to Top

Series II consists of reference materials on specific subjects related to Presbyterian missionary Sheldon Jackson, who was instrumental in establishing an educational system and schools in territorial Alaska. Hinckley contracted with Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska to write a biography about the individual.

The series is divided into subseries according to specific subject headings as assigned by Hinckley. Some of the subseries have been divided further according to more detailed subjects and, in some places, according to a chronological scheme. For the most part, the series’ original order has been maintained.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries One: Publications about Jackson
circa 1870-1985
Box/Folder
6/1
Articles by Sheldon Jackson
1886-1899
6/2
Ted C. Hinckley articles about Sheldon Jackson
circa 1965-1985
6/3
Other articles about Sheldon Jackson
circa 1899-1979
6/4
Reference materials for publications
circa 1870-1980
Subseries Two : Biographical/Historical Materials
circa 1834-1996
Sheldon Jackson biographical notes
Box/Folder
6/8
Notes
Undated
6/9
Notes
1834-1868
6/10
Notes
1869-1879
6/11
Notes
1877-1883
6/12
Notes
1880-1909
6/13
"Red Letter Days" - Sheldon Jackson journal entries
1856-1901
6/14
Jackson's involvement in the Civil War
1865
Sheldon Jackson College
Box/Folder
6/15
Historical materials
1868-1967
6/16
Materials for Ted Hinckley article about Sheldon Jackson College
1960-1970
6/17
Correspondence about Hinckley's Sheldon Jackson College article
1967-1972
6/18
Hinckley relationship with Sheldon Jackson College
1975
6/19
Issue of Adventures - Sheldon Jackson College publication
1996
Box/Folder
6/20
Other biographies
1980-1982
7/1
Presbyterian Historical Society annual reports
1945-1987
7/2-7/3
Religion in the United States - reference material
1961-1998
7/4
Religious activism and the American Indian
1975-1985
7/5
Library and Archives of the Scotch-Irish Foundation
1979-1988
Churches
Box/Folder
7/6
U.S., non-Presbyterian
circa 1800-1900
7/7-7/8
U.S., Presbyterian
circa 1800-1900
7/9
Alaska
circa 1850-1900
Subseries Three : Correspondence
1880-1909
Box/Folder
7/10-7/12
Correspondence
1880-1905
Subseries Four : Missions and Missionary Work
circa 1789-1985
Non-Alaska
Box/Folder
8/1-8/2
Background information
circa 1887-1964
8/3
Women missionaries
circa 1868-1967
8/4
Presbyterian Home Mission
circa 1789-1923
8/5
Board of Foreign and Home Missions
1877-1879
8/6
Missionary work outside of Alaska
circa 1821-1982
8/7
Western missions
circa 1872-1883
8/8
Presbytery in Utah
circa 1872-1945
8/9
Presbytery in Colorado
circa 1864-1970
8/10
Presbytery in Arizona and New Mexico
circa 1870-1985
8/11
The Rocky Mountain Presbytery - Sheldon Jackson's publication
circa 1874-1986
Alaska
Box/Folder
9/1
Presbytery of Alaska
circa 1883-1966
9/2
Alaska missionaries
circa 1890-1970
9/3
Missionaries and Alaska Natives
circa 1886-1896
9/4
Praise for missionary work in Alaska
circa 1890-1978
Subseries Five : Education and Schools
circa 1870-1948
General Information
Box/Folder
9/5
General information
1880-1886
9/6
General information
1887-1913
Box/Folder
9/7
Public school system
1870-1905
9/8
Problems with schools
circa 1880-1905
9/9
Teachers in Alaska
circa 1880-1905
9/10
"Sectarian strife and Catholic dread"
1887-1891
9/11
Sheldon Jackson College in Utah
1895-1903
9/12
Westminster College
circa 1890-1948
9/13
Carslisle School
1880-1881
Subseries Six : Professional Career
1880-1906
Box/Folder
10/1
General Agent of Education
1880-1906
10/2
Salary and location
1888-1890
10/3
Insecurity and adversity
circa 1880-1905
10/4
Grand Jury investigation
1899
Subseries Seven : Government, Law, and Politics
circa 1878-1905
Box/Folder
10/5
General information
1878-1903
10/6
Organic Act
1878-1903
10/7
Lobbyist and Alaskan Advocate
circa 1877-1905
10/8
Congressional Delegation
1900-1905
10/9
Politics
circa 1880-1900
10/10
Governor Lyman Knapp
circa 1892
10/11
Governor James Sheakley
circa 1894
Subseries Eight : Alaska Natives
circa 1869-1975
Box/Folder
10/12
General Information
circa 1869-1975
10/13
Education
circa 1875-1981
10/14
Land rights and reservations
circa 1889-1971
Subseries Nine : Subject Files
circa 1868-1975
Box/Folder
10/15
Agriculture
circa 1890-1900
10/16
Alaskan Society of Natural History and Ethnology
circa 1868-1906
10/17
Liquor
circa 1874-1904
10/18
Nelson Act
1905
10/19
Reindeer
circa 1891-1975
10/20
Relationship with John G. Brady
1890-1967

Series III:  John Green Brady materials, circa 1853-1982Return to Top

Series III contains reference materials related to Alaskan Governor John G. Brady, about whom Hinckley wrote and published a biography. The series is divided into subseries according to specific subject headings as assigned by Hinckley. Some of the subseries have been divided further according to more detailed subjects and, in some places, according to a chronological scheme. For the most part, the series' original order has been maintained.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries One: Publications and lectures about Brady
circa 1896-1982
Box/Folder
11/1
Article by Ted Hinckley - "Alaskan John G. Brady: Missionary, Businessman, Judge, and Governor, 1878-1918" (includes reference materials
1975
11/2
Articles by Ted Hinckley - "Are We Truly More Heathen than the Natives: John G. Brady and the Assimilation of Alaska's Tlingit Indians"
1978
11/3
Articles written by John G. Brady about Alaska
1896-1911
11/4
Illustrative materials for John G. Brady biography by Ted C. Hinckley
circa 1982
Subseries Two : Biographical/Historical Materials
circa 1848-1973
Box/Folder
11/5
Family genealogy
1888-1964
11/6
Hugh P. Brady oral history
1973 July 12
11/7
Education at seminary and Yale College
circa 1870s
11/8
Arrival in Alaska
1878
11/9
Reference notes
1848-1918
Subseries Three : Correspondence
1887-1906
Box/Folder
11/10
General
1887-1906
11/11
Family
1887-1906
Subseries Four : Government and Politics
circa 1879-1905
Box/Folder
11/12
Canadian-Alaskan Boundary Dispute
1879-1899
11/13
Captain Whitford, the steamship Leo, and the Sitka Trading Company
1886-1893
11/14
Carter Bill
1899
11/15
Clemency cases
1899-1904
11/16
Insane care
1900-1905
11/17
Judge Wickersham
1902-1905
11/18
Land Law
circa 1862-1903
11/19
Lobbying
circa 1891-1903
11/20
Military
1890-1899
11/21
Political positions
circa 1890-1900
11/22
Revenue Cutter Service
1868-1883
Subseries Five : Professional career
circa 1875-1918
Box/Folder
12/1
Friends and support
1875-1906
12/2
Brady as judge and lawyer
1878-1918
12/3
Activities as Governor
1897-1905
12/4
Congressional delegate
1900-1905
12/5
"Immediate Governor"
1897
12/6
Law enforcement
1899-1906
12/7
Liquor law
1899-1906
12/8
Politics
1889-1906
12/9
Capitol move to Juneau
1905-1906
12/10
Governor A.P. Swineford
circa 1886-1889
12/11
Opposition to Governor Brady
1902-1905
12/12
Questions for Governor Brady
1905
12/13
Reynolds-Alaska Development Company
1905-1910
12/14
Special inspection and Frank C. Churchill report
1906
12/15
Resignation of Governor Brady
1906
Subseries Six : Later years
1906-1918
Box/Folder
12/16
Activities post-Governor
1906-1918
12/17
Return to Sitka
1913
12/18
Final years
1911-1918
Subseries Seven : Alaska Development
1853-1910
Box/Folder
13/1
Conservation and resource management
circa 1901-1902
13/2
E.H. Harriman expedition
1899
13/3
Industry and commerce
1893-1903
13/4
Lumber mills
1853-1900
13/5
Mining - Yukon and Klondike
1878-1900
13/6
Populating Alaska
1893-1902
13/7
Railroads
1891-1914
13/8
Transportation
1904-1910
Subseries Eight : Alaska Natives
circa 1870-1905
Box/Folder
13/9
General Information
1899-1911
13/10
Natives' condition
1878-1906
13/11
Liquor abuse
1897-1903
13/12
Metlakatla
1889-1902
13/13
Yakutat
1895-1901
13/14
Potlatch
1870-1904
13/15
Witchcraft, slavery, and human sacrifice
1900-1905
13/16
Meeting between Governor Brady and Tlingit chiefs
1898
13/17
Native police
circa 1885-1891
Subseries Nine : Brady Family
1887-1967
Box/Folder
13/18
General
1889-1967
13/19
Elizabeth Patton Brady (Mrs. John G. Brady)
1887-1925
Subseries Ten : Subject Files
circa 1875-1917
Box/Folder
13/20
Assassination of President McKinley
1901
13/21
Imperialism
1989-1912
13/22
Interior Alaska
1875-1903
13/23
Nome
1897-1900
13/24
Sitka Hot Springs
1885-1917
13/25
Sitka Society
1885-1903
13/26
Brady and church
post-1880
Education and Schools
Box/Folder
13/27-13/29
General information
1880-1905
Box/Folder
13/30
Lewis and Clark Exposition
1905
13/31
Territorial Library and Museum
1902-1905

Series IV:  Alaska, circa 1867-1990Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries One : Archival Collection Guides and Bibliographies
circa 1920-1976
Box
14
Bibliographic note cards - primary sources
undated
15
Bibliographic note cards - secondary sources
undated
Box/Folder
16/1
Alaska newspapers
1976
16/2
Alaska bibliography
circa 1962
16/3
Bibliographic reference cards by subject
circa 1920-1975
16/4
U.S. Government microfilm collection
1970
Subseries Two : Alaska, General historical materials
circa 1850-1985
Box/Folder
16/5-16/9
Reference materials
1867-1910
16/10
Alaska and World War II
circa 1940-1950
16/11
Images of Alaska by early American explorers
circa 1890-1985
16/12-16/13
Photographs and illustrative materials
undated
17/1
Alta California and San Francisco Chronicle articles about Alaska
1867-1887
17/2-17/10
Contemporary articles about Alaska
circa 1950-1985
17/11
Lectures by Ted Hinckley about Alaska
circa 1970s
17/12
Publications by Ted Hinckley about Alaska
undated
17/13-17/14
Miscellaneous reel-to-reels
undated
Subseries Three : Alaska Natives
circa 1830-1987
Box/Folder
17/15-18/3
Reference materials
1830s-1980s
18/4
Alaska Native Brotherhood
circa 1893-1944
18/5
Aleuts
circa 1867-1982
18/6
Auk
circa 1885-1967
18/7
Blood atonement and slavery
circa 1885-1895
18/8
Chief Annahootz
circa 1886-1907
18/9
Chilkat
circa 1876-1972
18/10
"Church, State, and the American Indians" - article by R. Pierce Beaver
1966
18/11
Commercial fishing
undated
18/12
Comparison of British and American treatment of Northwest Indians
1978-1982
18/13
Disease
1835-1970
Education
Box/Folder
18/14-18/15
Published materials
circa 1960-1980s
18/16
Indian schools
circa 1867-1900
18/17
Carlisle School
1867-1950
Box/Folder
18/18
Federal Indian Policy in Alaska - manuscript material
undated
18/19
Guns
1868-1890
19/1
Haida
circa 1885-1902
19/2
Health
1975
19/3
Hinckley lectures
circa 1970s
19/4
History and ethnology
1886-1901
19/5
Hoonah seizure of the Hudson Bay Company steamer, Labouchere, 1862 - reference materials and draft article
circa 1987
19/6
Indians and Creoles of Sitka: Commisioner's Docket
1884-1896
19/7
"The Indian in Relation to the White Population of the U.S." - thesis
1905
19/8
Indian tension
1877-1880
19/9
Kwakiutl -potlach
1883-1950
19/10
Land claims
1971-1979
19/11
Metlakatla settlement
circa 1861-1903
19/12
Minority groups and Alaska Natives - labor
post-1882
Missions and missionaries
Box/Folder
19/13
Alaska Missionary, by Reverend Ferdinand Drebert, D.D.
1959
19/14
Relationship with Alaska Natives
1889-1979
19/15
Sitka Presbyterian Church session records
1884-1907
19/16
Women missionaries
circa 1893-1987
Native Culture and Society
Box/Folder
19/17
Arts and crafts
circa 1800-1980
19/18
Exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair
1901
20/1
Woodwork - canoes and houses
circa 1879-1971
20/2
Population
circa 1869-1979
20/3
"Power of Name"
circa 1888-1908
20/4
Racism
1889-1974
20/5
Relations with whites
circa 1867-1987
20/6
Report to the Board of Indian Commissioners
1867-1901
20/7
Reservations
1846-1851
20/8
Tsimshian
circa 1867-1950
Tlingit
Box/Folder
20/9
Basic sources
circa 1890-1982
20/10
Bibliography
undated
20/11-20/13
Published articles
1900-1985
20/14
Unpublished materials
circa 1892-1911
20/15
Attire
pre-1900
20/16
Commerce
circa 1869-1963
20/17
Compared and contrasted with Plains Indians
circa 1885-1903
20/18
Physical description
circa 1852-1883
20/19
Police
circa 1870-1890
20/20
Shaman and his impact
circa 1850-1950
20/21
Slaves
circa 1840-1968
20/22
Tlingit to English dictionary
undated
20/23
Tlingit Presbyterian Church records
1906-1926
20/24
The Thlingit (newspaper devoted to Native interests)
1909-1911
20/25
Tongass
circa 1898
Women
Box/Folder
20/26
General information
circa 1890-1986
20/27
Hinckley article
1992
Subseries Four : "Boosters and Laments"
1867-1905
Box/Folder
21/1-21/2
Reference materials
1867-1905
Subseries Five : Communciation
1866-1970
Box/Folder
21/3
Mail service
circa 1866-1906
21/4
Western Union Telegraph Company
circa 1867-1970
Subseries Six : Conservation and Ecology
1895-1913
Box/Folder
21/5
Reference materials
1895-1913
21/6
"Conservation in Alaska" - Hinckley lecture
circa 1970s
Subseries Seven : Economic Activities
circa 1868-1978
Box/Folder
21/7
Agriculture
1898-1978
Alaska Commercial Company
Box/Folder
21/8-21/10
General
1868-1940
21/11
Administrative records
circa 1868-1898
21/12
Reply to Governor Swineford
1887
21/13
"The Alaska Commercial Company and the U.S. Customs Bureau in Alaska" - manuscript by Roland L. De Lorme
undated
Box/Folder
21/14
Alaska/U.S. commercial relations
1868-1902
21/15
"Commercial Alaska in 1901: Area, Population, Production, Railways, Telegraphs, Transportation Routes, Foreign Commerce & Commerce of the U.S. with Alaska"
1902 May
Fishing Industry
Box/Folder
22/1-22/5
Fish and canneries
circa 1875-1975
22/6
"Pacific Salmon Fisheries," by John N. Cobb
1917
22/7
"The salmon and salmon fisheries of Alaska," from the Bulletin of the United State Fish Commission
1898
22/8
"The Pacific Salmon Fisheries," James Crutchfield & Guillo
undated
22/9
Alaska seal and salmon fisheries
1898
22/10
Alaska Packers and Chinese Labor
circa 1900-1976
22/11
Alaska fisheries and R.D. Hume
1959; 1961
22/12
Fishing industry articles
1973-1974
22/13
"The Fisherman's Frontier on the Pacific Coast: The Rise of the Salmon-Canning Industry," by Vernon Carstensen
undated
22/14
"The Men Who Packed the Harvest," by Sue Ellen Liljeblad
1978
22/15
Unpublished papers regarding legislative attempts to prevent salmon exploitation
1880-1910
Box/Folder
22/16
Fur trade
1868-1977
22/17
Hudson Bay Company
1839-1941
22/18
Japanese presence
circa 1895-1964
22/19
Journalism and newspapers
circa 1868-1907
Mining
Box/Folder
22/20-23/2
General
circa 1880-1978
23/3
George Washington Carmack's account of the Klondike Discovery
1896
23/4
Klondike
1897-1900
23/5
Treadwell Mine in Juneau
1892-1957
Box/Folder
23/6
Reindeer
1890-1972
Shipping
Box/Folder
23/7
General
1884-1898
23/8
"Cutter, Smuggler, Colporteur, and Trader - The Leo (originally ISRM Reliance)," by Ted C. Hinckley
undated
Transportation and Tourism
Box/Folder
23/9-23/12
General
circa 1860-1980
23/13
Railroads
circa 1899-1905
Box/Folder
23/14
Whaling
circa 1881-1966
Subseries Eight : Education
circa 1868-1911
Box/Folder
23/15
General
circa 1882-1900
23/16
Bureau of Education Special Report - Indian Education & Civilization
1888
24/1-24/2
Commissioner of Education - Annual Reports
1870-1911
24/3
Mission schools
circa 1877-1903
24/4
Public schools
circa 1868-1894
24/5
Sitka schools
circa 1879-1893
Indian Education
Box/Folder
24/6
General
circa 1870-1893
24/7
Progress through education
circa 1880-1908
24/8
Sex education
circa 1880-1892
Subseries Nine : Ethnic groups, non-Native
1867-1973
Box/Folder
24/9
Jews in Alaska
1867-1973
Subseries Ten : Geography
circa 1860-1982
Box/Folder
24/10
Physical description
circa 1869-1970
24/11
"Towns in Alaska"
1897
24/12
Anchorage
1969-1971
24/13-24/14
Circle City
1886-1972
24/15
Fairbanks
circa 1910-1980
24/16
Fort Tongass
1868-1893
24/17
Forty Mile
1888-1902
24/18
Hoonah
1880-01903
24/19-24/20
Juneau
circa 1880-1965
24/21
Ketchikan
1886-1900
24/22
Killisnoo
1882-1890
24/23
Kodiak Island
1868-
Metlakatla
Box/Folder
24/24-24/25
General information
1881-1993
Box/Folder
25/1
Nome
circa 1898-1965
25/2
Petersburg
circa 1975
25/3
Point Barrow, Point Hope, Prince of Wales
circa 1883-1893
25/4
Pribilof Islands
1869-1897
Sitka
Box/Folder
25/5-25/8
General information
circa 1860-1910
25/9
"Sitka National Monument" - manuscript by George A. Hall
1968
25/10
Sitka frontier community
circa 1867-1890
25/11
Sitka Times
1868
Box/Folder
25/12
Skagway
1897
25/13
St. Lawrence Island
1881-1895
25/14
Taku
1890-1918
25/15
Wrangell
circa 1869-1880
Yukon Valley
Box/Folder
26/1
Yukon Valley Interior
1866-1969
26/2
"Yukon Valley Eskimos" - manuscript by Dorothy Jean Ray
1964
26/3
Aboriginals of the Yukon Valley - reference materials
circa 1878-1982
26/4
Settlement by whites
1910-1971
26/5
Yukon River and the Klondike
circa 1895-1971
26/6
Alexander Hunter Murray journals
1847-1878
26/7
Leroy McQuestion journal
1871-1885
Box/Folder
26/8
Maps
1882-1971
26/9
Tundra
1972
Subseries Eleven : Government and Law
circa 1869-1971
Box/Folder
26/10
Alaska Bar Association and a Sketch of the Judiciary
1901
26/11
Planning Council "General Information Regarding Alaska"
1941
26/12
Alaska Boundary Tribunal and Canadian-Alaskan Boundary Dispute
circa 1878-1904
26/13
Canadian-Alaskan Boundary Dispute
circa 1878-1904
26/14
Civil vs. territorial government and quest for a Congressional Delegate from Alaska to the United States Congress
circa 1899-1905
26/15
Court Case: Charles Kie v. the U.S.
1888
Government and Alaska Natives
Box/Folder
26/16
"The Federal Relationship to Alaska Natives," by David S. Case
1978
26/17
First Report of the Commission on Indian Affairs
1869
26/18
George Thornton Emmons' report on the needs and condition of Alaska Natives
1905
Governors
Box/Folder
26/19
Thomas Rigg - "The Truth About Alaska" article
undated
26/20
John Kinkead and A.P. Swineford
1884
27/1-27/2
A.P. Swineford
1885-1889
27/3
Lyman Knapp
1893
27/4
James Sheakley
1893-1897
Governor of Alaska Reports
Box/Folder
27/5-27/9
Reports
1884-1913
27/10
House of Representatives Alaska Delegate - M.D. Ball
1881-1882
Land
Box/Folder
27/11
Secretary of the Interior Annual Report
1868-1869
27/12
Secretary of the Interior general materials
1877-1970
27/13
Land Law
1867-1967
27/14
General Land Office - Extending the Homestead Act to Alaska
1898
Box/Folder
27/15
Laws and rules of the District Court of Alaska
1884-1896
27/16
"The Adminstration of Criminal Justice in Alaska, 1867-1902" - manuscript by Tom Murton
1965
27/17
Native Militia
circa 1900
27/18
Organic Act
1884
Politics
Box/Folder
27/19
General information
1950
27/20
"Alaska in the Republican and Democratic Party Platforms 1868-1900" - paper by Wyn Wachhorst
1964
Box/Folder
27/21
Proposed penal colony in Alaska
circa 1880s-1915
27/22
Senate Report - condition in Alaska
1904
27/23
Senate Testimony
1892
Treasury Department
Box/Folder
27/24
Secretary of Treasury Annual Reports
1877-1883
27/25
Captain Charles Bryant, Special Agent to the Treasury Department - Special Report
1869
28/1
"Conditions of Affairs in Alaska" - Special Report
1875
28/2
U.S. Treasury Department
circa 1878-1888
28/3
U.S. Purchase of Alaska
1867
28/4
President Hayes and Alaska
1879-1880
Alaska Population Data
Box/Folder
28/5-28/6
General
1870-1920
Subseries Twelve : Individuals
circa 1860-1983
Box/Folder
28/7
"Characters and Office Holders - Dates"
undated
28/8
Various
circa 1860-1895
28/9
Adams, George Russell
1865-1867
28/10
Beardslee, L.A.
1879-1903
28/11
Churchill, Leonard
1889
28/12
Coon, Henry
1886-1896
28/13
Davis, General Jefferson C.
1828-1879
28/14
Dawes, Henry L.
1887-1889
28/15
deGroff, Edward
1880-1900
Dodge, William Sumner
Box/Folder
28/16
"Alaska Pioneer and West Coast Town Builder, William Sumner Dodge" - Hinckley article
undated
28/17
Manuscript and reference materials for article
undated
Box/Folder
28/18-28/19
Eaton, John
1876-1965
28/20
Elliot, Henry W.
circa 1870
28/21
Emmons, George T.
1886-1904
28/22
Harrison, Benjamin
1885-1892
29/1
Heintzleman, Frank (ex-governor of Alaska) - reel-to-reel
1962 July 10
29/2
Howard, Major General O.O. - Memoir
1907
29/3
Keithahn, Edward (curator, Alaska State Museum) - reel-to-reel
undated
29/4
Kelly, W.P.
1891-1962
29/5
Kinkead, John H.
1869-1885
29/6
Lewis, Andrew T.
1884
29/7
Marsden, Edward
1891-1904
29/8
Miller, John Frankliln - unpublished paper
1981
29/9
Mills, William Richie
1983
29/10
Moore, Billie, William Thomas Lopp, James Condit, Charles Baranovitch, and John D'Wolf
1882-1987
29/11
Muir, John
1976-1981
29/12
Newell, W.A. - Territorial Governor of Washington State
1881-1986
Niblack, Albert
Box/Folder
29/13
Journal
1880-1886
29/14
Reference materials
1865-1971
Box/Folder
29/15
Petrov, Ivan
1872-1896
29/16-29/17
Pratt, Captian R.H.
circa 1881-1973
29/18
Ripinsky, Sol
1870-1906
29/19-29/20
Rogers, George (Alaska State Economist) - reel-to-reel
undated
29/21
Scidmore, Eliza R., Marcus Baker, Henry Glass, Rear Admiral William H. Emory, and Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz
1882-1974
Seward, William H.
Box/Folder
30/1
Account of Alaska trip
1870-1871
30/2
Speeches
1869
30/3
Hinckley article and reference materials
1869-1967
Box/Folder
30/4
Shortridge, Louis
circa 1890-1987
30/5
Simpson, Friench - journal
1909
30/6
Thornton, Reverend H.R.
1893
30/7
Thwing, L.B. - correspondence
1892-1895
30/8
Young, S. Hall
1898-1929
30/9
Zagoskin, L.A.
circa 1980
Subseries Thirteen : Liquor
circa 1867-1980
Box/Folder
30/10-30/12
General information
1867-1910
30/13
Eskimos and Aleuts
circa 1871-1910
30/14
Liquor problem
circa 1890-1900
Missionaries
Box/Folder
30/15
General information
1870-1899
30/16
Harrison Thornton and Charles Edwards murders
1878-1882
Customs Collectors
Box/Folder
31/1-31/2
General information
1884-1892
31/3-31/4
William Morris
1878-1882
Box/Folder
31/5
Licensing
1884-1894
31/6
Smuggling
circa 1868-1980
31/7
Seizures
1869-1891
Subseries Fourteen : Military
circa 1867-1987
Army
Box/Folder
31/8-31/11
General information
circa 1867-1966
31/12
Indians and troop withdrawal
1867-1870
31/13
"Petty Politics"
1868-1872
31/14
Army/civilian interaction
1868-1899
31/15
Major J.B. Campbell
1875-1877
31/16
Ted C. Hinckley article about the Army in Alaska
1984
32/1
Other articles about the Army in Alaska
1870-1972
Navy
Box/Folder
32/2
Secretary of Navy Annual Reports
1879-1882
32/3
Law enforcement
circa 1868-1905
32/4-32/5
Destruction of Angoon - Hinckley article and reference materials
1970s-1980s
32/6
Destruction of Angoon - Esther Billman papers
1973
32/7
Navy at Killisnoo
circa 1882-1886
32/8
Revenue Cutters Cutter and Bear
circa 1885-1905
Box/Folder
32/9
U.S. Coast Guard
circa 1876-1976
Subseries Fifteen : Missionaries
circa 1867-1963
Box/Folder
32/10
British Columbia missionaries
circa 1875-1885
32/11
Fort Simpson and Reverend Crosby
circa 1875-1885
32/12
Max Pracht in Saxman
1885-1901
32/13
Dr. Arron L. Lindsley
1867-1880
32/14
Work in Sitka
1883-1963
32/15
Haines, Hoonah, Hydah and Klawack missions
circa 1880-1900
32/16
Tlingit Training Academy
circa 1875-1885
Subseries Sixteen : Religion in Alaska
circa 1800-1984
Box/Folder
33/1
Episcopalians
circa 1884-1897
33/2
Lutherans
1867-1968
33/3
Methodists
circa 1800-1900
33/4
Moravians
circa 1879-1942
33/5-33/6
Roman Catholics
circa 1880-1965
33/7
Salvation Army
circa 1882-1977
33/8-33/10
Russian Orthodox Church historical articles
1967-1984
Subseries Seventeen : Russian America
circa 1806-1989
Historical Articles
Box/Folder
33/11
Various
circa 1806-1988
33/12
"Russian adminstration of Alaska, 1749-1867"
undated
33/13
"The Russian American Company," by S.B. Okun
1951
33/14
"A History of the Russian American Company," by P.A. Tikhmenev
undated
33/15
"The Russian American Colonies," eds. Dmystryshyn, Basil, et. al.
1989
33/16
"Baranov: Chief Manager of the Russian Colonies in America," by K.T. Khlebnikov
1973
Box/Folder
33/17
Pavel Golovin, Imperial Russian Navy Officer - letter
1960-1861
34/1-34/3
Population
circa 1869-1975
34/4
Relations with Alaska Natives
undated
34/5
Relations with Canada
1855-1880
34/6
Relations with U.S. and reasons for sale of Alaska
circa 1867-1971
34/7
Trading
undated
Subseries Eighteen : Settlers
circa 1867-1977
Box/Folder
34/8
Icelanders
1870s
34/9
Paul Family
circa 1879-1984
34/10
"Researching Alaska's Pioneer Years, 1867-1912," by Ted C. Hinckley
1977
34/11
Prominent Alaskans
1897
34/12
Accusations of witchcraft
circa 1883
34/13-34/14
Pioneer culture
circa 1867-1913
Subseries Nineteen : United States
1867-1870
Box/Folder
34/15
Alaska's relationship with San Francisco
circa 1867-1870
Subseries Twenty : Women
1883-1912
Box/Folder
34/16
General
circa 1883-1891
34/17
Miss Amanda McFarland of Fort Wrangell
1886-1912

Series V:  Non-Alaskan Subjects, circa 1867-1975Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
34/18
Alaska's relationship with San Francisco
circa 1867-1870
34/19
American Indian
1600-1867
34/20
American Indian
post-1867
34/21
American South - bibliographic reference cards
circa 1875-1975
34/22
Hawaiian missionaries
circa 1822-1894
35/1
Liquor - U.S. book
circa 1868-1886
35/2
U.S. Pacific expansion
circa 1865-1930
35/3
"U.S. Scene"
pre-1830-1909
Subseries One : World War II microfilm from the Department of Navy, Operational Archives Branch, Naval Historical Center
circa 1970s-1990s
Box/Folder
35/4
Carrier Command Report - Sinking of Yamato (three rolls)
1978
35/5
WWII History Reports and WWII Action Reports
1979; 1994

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Businessmen -- Alaska -- History -- Sources.
  • Education -- Alaska -- History -- Sources.
  • Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska -- History --19th century -- Sources.
  • Governors -- Alaska -- History -- Sources.
  • Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Government relations -- History -- Sources.
  • Indians of North America -- Alaska -- History -- Sources.
  • Indigenous peoples -- Alaska -- History -- Sources.
  • Judges -- Alaska -- History -- Sources.
  • Missionaries -- Alaska -- History -- Sources.
  • Presbyterian Church -- Alaska -- History -- Sources.
  • Tlingit Indians -- Alaska -- History -- Sources.
  • Tlingit Indians -- Alaska -- Social life and customs -- History -- Sources.
  • Tlingit Indians -- Government relations -- History -- Sources.
  • Tlingit Indians -- History -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
  • Tlingit Indians -- Social conditions -- History -- Sources.

Personal Names

  • Brady, John Green -- 1847-1918.
  • Hinckley, Ted C. -- Archives (creator)
  • Jackson, Sheldon -- 1834-1909.

Geographical Names

  • Alaska -- Annexation to the United States -- History -- Sources.
  • Alaska -- Historiography -- Sources.
  • Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959 -- Sources.
  • Alaska -- History -- 1959 -- Sources.
  • Alaska -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
  • Alaska -- Politics and government -- History -- 1867-1959 -- Sources.
  • Alaska -- Social life and customs -- History -- Sources.
  • Sitka (Alaska) -- History -- Sources.