Alaska -- Description and travel

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This artificial collection was begun as a catch-all for small single gifts and purchases, and to make them easier for scholars to search them. This assemblage consists primarily of documents, correspondence, photographs, broadsides and artifacts, dealing mostly with United States history.

Scope and Contents Harriet G. Barclay was Professor of Botany at the University of Tulsa, teaching part-time at the University of Tulsa between 1929 and 1942, and later assuming a full-time position in 1942. In 1949, she was promoted to Professor of Botany and in 1953 was appointed Chair of the Botany department. In 1958 she received a National Science Foundation grant for a year of botanical research in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. She retired in 1972, at which time she was appointed...

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Honey Hansen Travel Service at Littler. 415 Union. Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Coupons for Mr. and Mrs. John Shleppey. Interior has a slip for the Universal Travel Directors directing the Baranof Hotel in Juneau, Alaska to give the Shleppeys a double room with bath, per Pan American request.

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A memo of files in cabinet for J. L. S. review. It includes alist on states, committees, countries, etc.

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"Your PAA Clipper Trip ... Inside Alaska". Color illustrated brochure and map of flight routes to Alaska. Describes scenic landmarks and points of interest.

Scope and Contents Photo album inscribed to Mrs. Mary Hemenway with the compliments of Edward Isaiah Thomas (Treasurer, William Duncan Fund, Boston, MA). Handwritten inscription inside front cover reads "A. [N.] Spicer from K.H.S. Boston, 98." Also rubber stamped "Property of American Merchantile Marine Library Association, Boston Dispatch Office." Images include views of the Metlakahtla area in Alaska including local inhabitants, Union Hotel and lodgers, residential quarters, boats and canoes, and...