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:
Text transcribed from caption: H. H. Bodfish, mate of whaler "Hume", Arctic Ocean 1892.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Bodfish, H. H.
Topics:
Men--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102736
Title:
Women in Alaska.
Description:
Mrs. Adolf Lydell, Swedish Evangelical Mission, Alaska, 1892.
Creator:
Roadling, E.G. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Lydell, Adolf, Mrs.
Topics:
Women missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102731
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Mr. Esta S. Smith, teacher at Afognak, 1892-3.
Creator:
Schnell, C.A. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Smith, Esta S.
Topics:
Men--Alaska--Afognak., Missionaries--Alaska--Afognak.
Geographic subjects:
Afognak (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102716
Title:
Children in Alaska.
Description:
Alaska Native girl, 1892. Former description: Eskimo girl, 1892.
Creator:
Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Native children.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102696
Title:
Children in Alaska.
Description:
Ruth Kilbuck, 1892. A Missionary Child, Alaska.
Creator:
Brown Stone Front Studio (Independence, Kan.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Kilbuck, Ruth.
Topics:
Children of missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102678
Title:
Cruise of the Cutter Bear, 1892.
Creator:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909. (author)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Alaska., Missions--Alaska., Ships--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:84672
Title:
U.S.S. Bear.
Description:
Sheldon Jackson on the U.S.S. Bear.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Ships--Alaska., Home missions--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7463

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