Sheldon Jackson Papers

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Sheldon Jackson (1834-1909) founded churches and missions throughout the West and Alaska. He was named U.S. General Agent for Education in Alaska in 1885. This collection includes Sheldon Jackson's journals, correspondence, and photographs relating to Jackson's work for the Board of National Missions in the West until 1877 and then in Alaska, and his personal mission to make the Presbyterian Church and U.S. government aware of problems in Alaska. Digitization funded by the Alaska Library Network and the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC). View the collection guide to learn more. Featured image: Group of Alaska Native girls.

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Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Alaska Native Chief with his personal effects, 1883. Text transcribed from caption: Indian Chief lying in State with his personal effects, 1883.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Men--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103038
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Rev. Alonzo E. Austin.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Austin, Alonzo Eugene, 1837-1915.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103033
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: V. L. Derby, teacher at St. Michael, Barrow.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Derby, V. L.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103026
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Dr. Gamble mending his clothes at Eaton.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103016
Title:
Photographs by Henry H. Brodeck.
Description:
Trail across Seduction Peninsula [Point]. Photographed for the Northwest Trading Co. By H.H. Brodeck, Walla Walla. W.T.
Creator:
Brodeck, H. H. (Henry H.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Men--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103004
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Portrait of unidentified man.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102988
Title:
Families/groups in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Rev. A.E. Austin, Dr. Sheldon Jackson, Hon. Wm. A. Kelly.
Creator:
Reuben Alberstone&Co. (Sitka, Alaska) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909., Austin, Alonzo Eugene, 1837-1915., Kelly, William A. (William Archibald), 1850-1920.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102987
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Alaska Native Chief Ush-kee-nah. Text transcribed from caption: Ush-kee-nah, a Chief of the Kah-wan-tan family. Indian Chief lying in state taken in the home.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Men--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102973
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: The Right Rev. Nicholas, Bishop of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Ziorov, Nicholas.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102966
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Portrait of unidentified man.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102917
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Gould, 1894, Howcan, Haida Territory.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Men--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102913
Title:
Families/groups in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption; E. O. Campbell.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Campbell, E. O.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Women--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102898
Title:
Photographs by Henry H. Brodeck.
Description:
Mountain in view from trail across Seduction Peninsula [Point]. Photographed for the Northwest Trading Co. By H.H. Brodeck, Walla Walla. W.T.
Creator:
Brodeck, H. H. (Henry H.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Men--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102893
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Portrait of unidentified native man.
Creator:
Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Men--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102892
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Gov. Sheakley of Alaska.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Sheakley, James.
Topics:
Men--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102882
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Alaska Native man with gun. Text transcribed from caption: Eskimo with gun.
Creator:
Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Alaska Natives.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102879
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Rev. John G. Baird D.D., 1904.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Baird, John Gunn, 1826-1891.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102865
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Eliphalet Nott, D.D., President of Union College, 1855.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Nott, Eliphalet.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102855
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Mr. Sanborn, Mate of Whaler Alton, Arctic Ocean, Alaska, 1892.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Missionaries
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102851
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Sheldon Jackson, A. D. 1894.
Creator:
Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909.
Topics:
Men--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102848

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