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:
Alaska Commission on Education Report.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Native houses, Unalaska, Alaska.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Native children--Alaska--Unalaska.
Geographic subjects:
Unalaska (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104391
Title:
Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska.
Description:
Alaska Native young men. Augustus, Zecharias. Text transcribed from caption: Eskimo young men. Augustus, Zecharias.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Natives--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103818
Title:
Education in Alaska Report.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Anvik, Yukon River, 1894.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103699
Title:
Alaska Commission on Education Report.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Akoutan, Trading Post. Page 1295.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Akutan (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103633
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Shows Cathedral, Old Trading Post (Center), Customs House, Mt. Verstovia.
Creator:
DeGroff, Edward, 1860-1910. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
Topics:
Missions--Alaska--Sitka., Landscapes--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103248
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Presbyterian Industrial School, Sitka, Alaska, U.S., 1887.
Creator:
Partridge Photo (Boston, Mass.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Native children--Education--Alaska--Sitka., Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka., Missions--Educational work--Alaska--Sitka., Portraits, Group--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103244
Title:
Places in Alaska.
Description:
Mr. & Mrs. W.T. Lopp, Mr. McClellan, Bruce Gibson. The herders and herd at Reindeer Station, Port Clarence, Alaska, Sept. 1892. W.M.B.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Lopp, William Thomas, 1864-1939., Gibson, Bruce., Lopp, William Thomas, Mrs.
Topics:
Missions--Alaska--Port Clarence., Missionaries--Alaska--Port Clarence., Reindeer--Alaska--Port Clarence., Alaska Natives--Alaska--Port Clarence.
Geographic subjects:
Port Clarence (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103199
Title:
Places in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Muir Glacier, Alaska, U.S.
Creator:
Partridge Photo (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
Geographic subjects:
Muir Glacier (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103113
Title:
Places in Alaska.
Description:
Umiak load. School house and village at Cape Prince of Wales, 1892. The small white object on the beach is the Richard Salter Storr's [Richard Salter Storrs] Chapel and School House.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Storrs, Richard S. (Richard Salter), 1821-1900.
Topics:
Missions--Alaska--Prince of Wales, Cape., Villages--Alaska--Prince of Wales, Cape.
Geographic subjects:
Prince of Wales, Cape (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103088
Title:
Places in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Ware-house, Kuskokvim River.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
Topics:
Missions--Alaska--Kuskokwin River.
Geographic subjects:
Kuskokwim River (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103051
Title:
Families/groups in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Sheldon Jackson, Harvey Townsend, John Shields.
Creator:
Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Children--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103020

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