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:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Drawing of houses in Sitka, Alaska, and house floor plans.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Dwellings--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104606
Title:
Photographs by Henry H. Brodeck.
Description:
Graves at Hoonyah [Hoonah] Villages. Photographed for the Northwest Trading Co. By H.H. Brodeck, Walla Walla. W.T.
Creator:
Brodeck, H. H. (Henry H.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Villages--Alaska--Hoonah., Cemeteries--Alaska--Hoonah.
Geographic subjects:
Hoonah (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102684
Title:
Port Clarence, Alaska.
Description:
Summer Tent, Reindeer Station, Port Clarence, Alaska, 1892.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Natives--Dwellings--Alaska--Port Clarence.
Geographic subjects:
Port Clarence (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103317
Title:
Photographs by Henry H. Brodeck.
Description:
Indian River near Sitka. Photographed for the Northwest Trading Co. By H.H. Brodeck.
Creator:
Brodeck, H. H. (Henry H.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Natives--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102639
Title:
Alaska Commission on Education Report.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Unga, Alaska. A Corner of Unga Village, 1892.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Unga Island (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104445
Title:
Alaska Commission on Education Report.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Game of Foot Ball. (Ball in the Air) Cape Smythe, Point Barrow, 1893.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Natives--Alaska--Barrow, Point., Soccer--Alaska--Barrow, Point., Alaska Natives--Games--Alaska--Barrow, Point.
Geographic subjects:
Barrow, Point (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103530
Title:
Sitka, Alaska.
Description:
Sitka Native village, Alaska, 1880. Taken from Baranof Castle, 1880-1890.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Villages--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects:
Sitka (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103261
Title:
Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: A dead reindeer, Amaknak Id.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Animal carcasses--Alaska--Aleutian Islands., Reindeer--Alaska--Aleutian Islands., Reindeer hunting--Alaska--Aleutian Islands.
Geographic subjects:
Aleutian Islands (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104188
Title:
Alaska Commission on Education Report.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Landing Reindeer at Teller Reindeer Station, July 4, 1892.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Reindeer--Alaska--Teller., Men--Alaska--Teller.
Geographic subjects:
Teller (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103754
Title:
Alaska Commission on Education Report.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Warehouse and Tlingit Houses, Juneau.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Juneau.
Geographic subjects:
Juneau (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103510
Title:
Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Unalaska, Alaska. 1884.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Unalaska (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104054
Title:
Education in Alaska Report.
Description:
Text transcribd from caption: Herd of reindeer Baroness Korfg Bay Kamchatka. H.W. Spear, photo 1899.
Creator:
Spear, H.W. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Reindeer--Russia (federation)--Siberia.
Geographic subjects:
Siberia (Russia)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103782
Title:
Unknown places/things in Alaska.
Description:
Building in Alaska.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Buildings--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103580
Title:
Unalaska, Alaska.
Description:
Unalaska.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Women--Alaska--Unalaska.
Geographic subjects:
Unalaska (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103495
Title:
Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: View of ice.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103823
Title:
Alaska Commission on Education Report.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: A winter view. Arctic Alaska, 1893.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103604
Title:
Photographs by Henry H. Brodeck.
Description:
Schultze Glacier and moraine, Takou [Taku] Inlet. Photographed for the Northwest Trading Co. By H.H. Brodeck.
Creator:
Brodeck, H. H. (Henry H.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Moraines--Alaska--Taku Inlet.
Geographic subjects:
Taku Glacier (Alaska), Taku Inlet (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102830
Title:
Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Native girls at Moravian Mission, Carmel, Alaska, 1891. Olga, Sophie.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Natives., Moravian Church--Missions--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska., Women--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103983
Title:
Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Prof. Israel C. Russell U.S. Geological Survey 1889. 1477 - Native Fort Reliance. 1478 - Establishing a Trading Station at Fort Selkirk. Harper, Sept. 1889.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Russell, Israel C. (Israel Cook), 1852-1906.
Topics:
Indigenous peoples--Yukon.
Geographic subjects:
Fort Selkirk (Yukon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103850
Title:
Alaska Commission on Education Report.
Description:
Alaska Natives on shipboard. Text transcribed from caption: Eskimo on shipboard.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Natives--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103581

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