Collection of correspondence and ephemera regarding Alaska, including records relating to Russia ceding Alaska to the United States, a letter from William Gouverneur Morris to E. S. Kearney, statements about Deputy Marshal J. J. Healy, tourism brochures, a descriptive booklet of the Alaska Historical Museum, and photostatic reproductions of a newspaper article about the Aleutian Islands by Isobel Wylie Hutchinson.

Two black and white photographs of islands in the Gulf of Alaska, with original envelope.

Collection includes manuscript diary, 1895, regarding a prospecting trip to Yukon along with four partners from Bridal Veil, Oregon; and a manuscript notebook, 1888-1897, with accounts, song lyrics, and poems.

Black and white photographic postcard of a herd of caribou near Nome, Alaska.

Collection includes hand-colored lithographs of glaciers in Kotzebue, Alaska, and the Chukchi people in Kamchatka, Russia.

Two black and white photographs of Juneau, Alaska and a nearby gold mine.

Eight black and white photographs of Alaska scenes, including sled dogs, miners, trains and mining towns.

Collection consists of four engravings from taken from "Troisième Voyage de Cook," a 1785 French edition of James Cook's "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean." The engravings are by Robert Bénard from drawings by John Webber and depict Native people of Unalaska, as well as canoes and headwear.

Collection consists primarily of a typescript photocopy compilation, "Old Stories of the Arctic Eskimo," 1978. Also included are two letters to Ruth Whitcomb regarding the Finnish community in Clatskanie, Oregon.

Approximately 350 black and white photographs, most in 3 albums, of a trip to Alaska, especially of the commercial salmon fishing and canning industry.