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:
Photographs of families/groups in Alaska.
Description:
Mr. and Mrs. V.C. Gambell and daughter. Drowned at sea on the sinking of the "Jane Gray," May 22, 1898.
Creator:
French (photographer)
Subject names:
Gambell, Vene C., 1863-1898., Gambell, Nellie Francis Webster, 1874-1898., Gambell, Margaret, 1897-1898., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Children of missionaries--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska., Missions--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10153
Title:
Photographs of families/groups in Alaska.
Description:
Mr. and Mrs. V.C. Gambell in winter dress at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Northern Bering Sea, 1897.
Subject names:
Gambell, Vene C., 1863-1898., Gambell, Nellie Francis Webster, 1874-1898., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Lawrence Island (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10152
Title:
Portrait of Ida Roscoe, 1886.
Description:
Portrait of Mrs. Wesley Ernest [Ida] Roscoe, 1886.
Creator:
Vansant (Eureka, Calif.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Roscoe, Ida., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Alaska., Women missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10070

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