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:
Unalaska, Alaska.
Description:
Unalaska. Text transcribed from caption: Ounalaska, our quarters.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Buildings--Alaska--Unalaska.
Geographic subjects:
Unalaska (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103677
Title:
Unalaska, Alaska.
Description:
Unalaska. Text transcribed from caption: Ounalaska, along the beach.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Beaches--Alaska--Unalaska.
Geographic subjects:
Unalaska (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103649
Title:
Laguna, New Mexico.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Ben Thomas (Wat-ye-eh), Mary Perry (Ki-ot-se), John Menaul (Kowsh-te-ah). Pueblos as they arrived at school. Pueblo Indians from Laguna, N.M.
Creator:
Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Thomas, Ben., Perry, Mary., Menaul, John.
Topics:
Pueblo Indians., Indigenous peoples--New Mexico
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103621
Title:
Unalaska, Alaska.
Description:
Unalaska. Text transcribed from caption: Ounalaska, exterior of Greek Church.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Alaska--Unalaska., Missions--Alaska--Unalaska.
Geographic subjects:
Unalaska (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103587
Title:
Unalaska, Alaska.
Description:
Unalaska. Text transcribed from caption: Ounalaska, exterior of Greek Church.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Alaska--Unalaska., Missions--Alaska--Unalaska.
Geographic subjects:
Unalaska (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103564
Title:
Unalaska, Alaska.
Description:
Unalaska. Text transcribed from caption: Ounalaska - Our quarters.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Buildings--Alaska--Unalaska.
Geographic subjects:
Unalaska (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103548
Title:
San Buenaventura, California.
Description:
Henry L. Harris and Spanish School. San Buenaventura, California. March 1883.
Creator:
Brewster, J.C. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Harris, Henry L.
Topics:
Missionaries--California--Ventura., Education--California--Ventura., Students--California--Ventura., Portraits, Group--California--Ventura., Missions--Educational work--California--Ventura.
Geographic subjects:
Ventura (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103519
Title:
Unalaska, Alaska.
Description:
Unalaska, showing sod-houses.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Unalaska (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103491
Title:
Unalaska, Alaska.
Description:
Unalaska - From opposite Island.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Unalaska (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103480
Title:
Togiak, Alaska.
Description:
Alaska Native men and store-houses, Togiak. Text transcribed from caption: Male Esquimaux and store-houses, Togiak.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Native men--Alaska--Togiak.
Geographic subjects:
Togiak (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103458
Title:
Unknown places/things in Alaska.
Description:
Alaska Native village, kayak, dog-sled, etc. Former description: Esquimaux village, kiyack, dog-sled, etc.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Natives., Sled dogs--Alaska., Kayaks--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103439
Title:
Unalaska, Alaska.
Description:
Unalaska, from opposite island.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Unalaska (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103419
Title:
Laguna, New Mexico.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Pueblo group after 4 years of school.
Creator:
Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Thomas, Ben., Perry, Mary., Menaul, John.
Topics:
Pueblo Indians., Indigenous peoples--New Mexico
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103398
Title:
Unalaska, Alaska.
Description:
Unalaska, interior of Greek Church.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Alaska--Unalaska., Missions--Alaska--Unalaska.
Geographic subjects:
Unalaska (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103380
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Bridge over Indian River, Sitka, Alaska, 1883.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103339
Title:
Ships in Alaska.
Description:
The "Dora", vessel of the A.C. Co.
Creator:
Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Dora (Ship), Alaska Commercial Company.
Topics:
Ships--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103337
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Main St. Showing Greek Church, Sitka, Alaska.
Creator:
Peterson & Brother (Seattle, Wash.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103318
Title:
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.
Description:
Group of Alaska Native men, women, and children in front of a building.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Natives--Alaska--Saint Lawrence Island., Alaska Native children--Alaska--Saint Lawrence Island.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Lawrence Island (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103312
Title:
Skidegate-Takou Inlet, Alaska.
Description:
View of Ice Mountain, 30 miles from East on Stickeen River along the Border of the line between Alaska and British Columbia.
Creator:
Peterson and Brothers Proprietors (Seattle, Wash.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Glaciers--Alaska--Stikine River., Glaciers--British Columbia--Stikine River.
Geographic subjects:
Stikine River (B.C. and Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103286
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Sheldon Jackson Institute, Sitka, Alaska, 1883.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Educational work--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103270

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