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: Bishop Nestor. Father Metropolsky. Sitka, Alaska.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka., Clergy--Alaska--Sitka., Missions--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104097
Title:
Alaska Commission on Education Report.
Description:
Mr. Cohen and family, Sitka.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Education--Alaska--Sitka., Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka., Children of missionaries--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103426
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
School No. 1, Sitka. (White and Creole) Dr. Sheldon Jackson, General Agent of Education in Alaska. Compliments of Miss Patton, Sitka School, No. 1.
Creator:
Reuben Alberstone & Co. (Sitka, Alaska) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Patton, Cassia.
Topics:
Children of missionaries--Alaska--Sitka., Education--Alaska--Sitka., Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka., Missions--Educational work--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103348
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Sheldon Jackson Museum, Sitka, Alaska, 1888-1895.
Creator:
Winter & Pond. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909.
Topics:
Missions--Alaska--Sitka., Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103347
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Gamblers at Sitka.
Creator:
Eastman Kodak Company of New York. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka., Gamblers--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103338
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Public School, Sitka, Alaska. Miss Cassia Patton, Teacher, 1892.
Creator:
Reuben Alberstone & Co. (Sitka, Alaska) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Patton, Cassia.
Topics:
Children of missionaries--Alaska--Sitka., Education--Alaska--Sitka., Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka., Portraits, Group--Alaska--Sitka., Missions--Educational work--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103316
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Sheldon Jackson Institute, Sitka, Alaska, 1883.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Educational work--Alaska--Sitka., Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103313
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Presbyterian Industrial School, Sitka, Alaska. Wm. A. Kelly, Supt. Photo by E.W. Merrill.
Creator:
Merrill, E.W. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Kelly, William A. (William Archibald), 1850-1920.
Topics:
Alaska Native children--Education--Alaska--Sitka., Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka., Missions--Educational work--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103276
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Dr. Sheldon Jackson and a group of Simpsean boys from Metlakatla, starting for the Presbyterian Industrial School, Sitka, Alaska. May 4, 1888. Dr. Bluett, Photographer.
Creator:
Bluett, Dr. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909.
Topics:
Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka., Missions--Educational work--Alaska--Sitka., Alaska Natives--Alaska--Sitka., Portraits, Group--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103268
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:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
The mission garden, Sitka, Alaska, 1883.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Alaska--Sitka., Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka., Gardens--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103218
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Ned Hall Mackey, Sitka Industrial Training School, 1887.
Creator:
E. Chamberlain Photographic Studio (Sitka, Alaska) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Mackey, Ned Hall.
Topics:
Men--Alaska--Sitka., Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103010
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: William A. Kelly, Sheldon Jackson School, Sitka.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Kelly, William A. (William Archibald), 1850-1920.
Topics:
Men--Alaska--Sitka., Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102978
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Dr. Sheldon Jackson and a group of Alaska Native children from Sitka enroute to school at Northfield, Mass. 1886. Olga Hilton, Frederick Harris, Blanche Lewis, Flora Campbell, Florence Wells, Minnie Shotter, Sheldon Jackson, Samuel Kendall Paul, Henry Philips.
Creator:
Marshall, C.P. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Educational work--Alaska--Sitka., Alaska Native children--Alaska--Sitka., Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6250

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