SITKA Early Views Historical Vignettes of Sitka National Historical Park

Front Cover: E.W. Merrill photograph, Ketchikan Museum Department, Tongass Historical Museum, Ketchikan (88-1.89-38).

Back Cover: "Totem Poles. Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland." Stratton Library, Sheldon Jackson College (Special collections-miscellaneous, 88065, #35).

Title Page: E.W. Merrill photograph, Sitka Historical Society, Isabel Miller Museum. Used with permission of the Wolf House clan.

Figure 1: J.G. Brady collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-1206, box 23, folder 41, photo #4).

Figure 2: National Park Service, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (KLGO 234).

Figure 3: "Dancing on the Green, Sitka, Alaska." J.G. Brady Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-1206, box 26, folder 143).

Figure 4: E.W. Merrill photograph. National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 3915).

Figure 5: National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park.

Figure 6: Alaska State Library, Historical Collection (MS-102).

Figure 7: "Crevasse in Muir Glacier, From Above". Private collection.

Figure 8: Museum of History and Industry (Alaska Bureau album #1, p.47).

Figure 9: Asahel Curtis photograph. Washington State Historical Society (Curtis 29042).

Figure 10: Curtis and Miller photograph. Museum of History and Industry (Curtis and Miller 29328).

Figure 11: "Eskimo Curio Vendors, Sitka, Alaska." Private Collection.

Figure 12: National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 15108).

Figure 13: "Indian River Bridge, Sitka." J.G. Brady collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-1206, box 25, folder 102).

Figure 14: E.W. Merrill photograph. National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park.

Figure 15a: National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 820).

Figure 15b: "Street Scene, Sitka, Alaska." National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 16279).

Figure 16: "General View of Sitka, Alaska." Private Collection.

Figure 17: "Totem Poles. Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland." Stratton Library, Sheldon Jackson College (Special collections-miscellaneous, 88065, #35).

Figure 18: J.G. Brady collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-1206 box 28, folder 188).

Figure 19: J.G. Brady collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-1206, box 28, folder 188).

Figure 20: J.G. Brady collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-1206 box 28, folder 188).

Figure 21: "Lover's Lane, Sitka, Alaska." National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 14669).

Figure 22: "Tallest Totem in the World, Sitka National Monument, Alaska." National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 9492).

Figure 23: "Famous Totem Poles in Sitka National Park, Alaska." Sitka Historical Society, Isabel Miller Museum (PH-3459).

Figure 24: "Totem Pole, Sitka, Alaska." Private Collection.

Figure 25: "Totem Poles." Alaska State Library, Historical Collection (John Grainger collection, PCA 255-83-11).

Figure 26: "Tourist Wagon, Sitka, Alaska." Sitka Historical Society, Isabel Miller Museum (PH-3719).

Figure 27: "The Witch Tree". National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 16011).

Figure 28: "Merrill Memorial at Sitka, Alaska." Sitka Historical Society, Isabel Miller Museum (PH-184).

Figure 29: "Indian River Bridge, Sitka." Candy Waugaman Collection.

Figure 30: "Reproduction of Russian Blockhouse, Sitka, Alaska." Sitka Historical Society, Isabel Miller Museum (PH-3469).

Figure 31: "Entrance to Totem Park, Sitka, Alaska." National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 222).

Figure 32: Vincent Colyer painting. From "Watercolor Paintings and Sketches of Alaskan Scenes." Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-261).

Figure 33: Vincent Colyer painting. From: "Watercolor Paintings and Sketches of Alaskan Scenes." Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-261).

Figure 34: George Ogrissek sketch "Mission Buildings, Hospital, Industrial School, Sketched from Baranoff Hill, October 6, 1898. 3 p.m." Anchorage Museum of History and Art (B 76.103.10).

Figure 35: T.J. Richardson painting of Old Kasaan. Alaska State Museum.

Figure 36: Emily Carr painting "Totem Walk at Sitka." Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Figure 37: James E. Stuart painting "Indian Creek." National Bank of Alaska, Heritage Library and Museum. Original at Sitka Branch, National Bank of Alaska.

Figure 38: Byron Birdsall "1842". Used with permission of Byron Birdsall and Artique Ltd.

Figure 39: E.W. Merrill photograph. Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 3802).

Figure 40: E.W. Merrill photograph. Alaska State Library, Historical Collection (PCA 57 #236).

Figure 41: E.W. Merrill photograph Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 3754).

Figure 42: Asahel Curtis photograph. Washington State Historical Society (Curtis #29048).

Figure 43: Amos Berg photograph. National Geographic Society (NGM 1947/06 825).

Figure 44: Ansel Adams photograph. Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust (4-A-4).

Figure 45: Ansel Adams photograph. Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust (5-A-9).

Figure 46: Ansel Adams photograph. Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust (3-A-2).

Figure 47: J.G. Brady collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-1206, box 23, folder 51).

Figure 48: Ansel Adams photograph. Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust (5-A-10).

Figure 49: "Native Curios, Sitka, Alaska." Museum of History and Industry (92.7.19.74).

Figure 50: Digitally enhanced reproduction with all text true to the original in content. Original from RG 101, File: Miscellaneous 1901-1903(3), Letter 54. Alaska State Archives.

Figure 51: National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park.

Figure 52: National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 15089).

Figure 53: McKay photograph. Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries (UW18268).

Figure 54: J.G. Brady collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-1206, box 22, folder 11).

Figure 55: John Brillhart photograph, Brillhart collection, Alaska State Library, Historical Collection (PCA 295 #51).

Figure 56: "The Alaskan." February 20, 1940. Digitally enhanced reproduction with all text true to the original in content. National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (RG 58, folder 3, SITK 14617).

Figure 57: John Brillhart photograph. Brillhart collection, Alaska State Library, Historical Collection (PCA 295 #54).

Figure 58: National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park.

Figure 59: National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park.

Figure 60: J.G. Brady collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-1206, box 26, folder 8, photo 7).

Figure 61: National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 808).

Figure 62: E.W. Merrill photograph. National Bank of Alaska, Heritage Library and Museum (900556).

Figure 63: Sitka Historical Society, Isabel Miller Museum (91.26, folder 660).

Figure 64: Stratton Library, Sheldon Jackson College (Wurster collection 88004, #37).

Figure 65: J.G. Brady collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-1206, box 25, folder 92).

Figure 66: Sitka Historical Society, Isabel Miller Museum (PH-1687).

Figure 67: J.G. Brady collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-120, box 26, folder 143).

Figure 68: Stratton Library, Sheldon Jackson College.

Figure 69: Alaska Native Brotherhood, 1914. E.W. Merrill photograph, Stratton Library, Sheldon Jackson College (Merrill collection 88056, #10).

Figure 70: National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SMR, July 1940).

Figure 71: United States Marine Corps Archives.

Figure 72: Sitka Harbor, Alaska, 1941. Pacific Alaska Region, National Archives and Records Administration, RG 77.

Figure 73: National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SMR, March 1941).

Figure 74: National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SMR, May 1941).

Figure 75: J.G. Brady collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (WA MSS S-1206, box 26, folder 108).

Figure 76: National Park Service, Sitka National Historical Park (SITK 883).

Figure 75 (top left): Left: Chief Saanaheit of Old Kasaan aboard the Cutter Rush, circa 1901. Chief Saanaheit donated one pole, four house posts, and a canoe to Governor Brady. Figure 76 (bottom right): The Revenue Cutter Rush docked at the former Russian wharf and warehouse at Sitka circa 1904. This vessel collected totem poles throughout Southeast Alaska for Governor Brady's totem collection.