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Title: Sheldon Jackson.
Description: [Sheldon Jackson].
Date Created: 1909
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909.
Topical Subject(s): Missionaries--Alaska., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States.
Physical Location: RG 414, Series I; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson (1834-1909) Biographical Vertical File.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=83724
Identifier (local): ds3192
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7366

Title: Sitka, Alaska.
Description: Shows Cathedral, Old Trading Post (Center), Customs House, Mt. Verstovia.
Creator Name(s): DeGroff, Edward, 1860-1910. (photographer)
Date Created: 1877, ca. 1877-1907
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
Topical Subject(s): Missions--Alaska--Sitka., Landscapes--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects: Alaska, Sitka., Sitka (Alaska), North and Central America--United States--Alaska--Sitka--Sitka, Alaska, Sitka.
Physical Location: RG 239, Box 13, Folder 3, Image No. 545; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Identifier (local): photographsofsit00unse_0063
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:103248

Title: Places in Alaska.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: Ware-house, Kuskokvim River.
Creator Name(s): Hartmann and Weinland. (photographer)
Date Created: 1877, ca. 1877-1907
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
Topical Subject(s): Missions--Alaska--Kuskokwin River.
Geographic subjects: Alaska, Kuskokwin River., Kuskokwim River (Alaska), North and Central America--United States--Alaska
Physical Location: RG 239, Box 12, Folder 10, Image No. 358; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Identifier (local): photographsofpla00unse_0079
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:103051

Title: Places in Alaska.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: Muir Glacier, Alaska, U.S.
Creator Name(s): Partridge Photo (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
Date Created: 1877, ca. 1877-1907
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
Geographic subjects: Muir Glacier (Alaska), North and Central America--United States--Alaska--Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon
Physical Location: RG 239, Box 12, Folder 11, Image No. 366; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Identifier (local): photographsofpla00unse_0087
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:103113

Title: Sheldon Jackson Papers
Description: 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.
Creator Name(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909. (creator)
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909.
Topical Subject(s): Presbyterian Church--Missions--Alaska., Indians of North America Missions--Educational work., Missionaries--West (U.S.), Missionaries--Alaska., Pioneers--Alaska., Reindeer--Alaska., Education--Alaska., Home missions--West (U.S.), Home missions--Alaska., Indians of North America--West (U.S.), Indians of North America--Alaska., Frontier and pioneer life--Alaska.
Geographic subjects: Alaska., West (U.S.), Alaska., Alaska., Alaska., Alaska., West (U.S.), Alaska., West (U.S.), Alaska., Alaska, North and Central America--United States--Alaska, Alaska.
Physical Location: RG 239; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Identifier (local): rg239
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:sheldon_jackson

Title: Alaska Commission on Education Report.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: Native houses, Unalaska, Alaska.
Date Created: 1877, ca. 1877-1891
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Alaska Native children--Alaska--Unalaska.
Geographic subjects: Alaska, Unalaska., Unalaska (Alaska), North and Central America--United States--Aleutians West--Alaska--Unalaska--Unalaska Island
Physical Location: RG 239, Box 14, Folder 9, Image No. 799; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Identifier (local): photographsrelat00unse_0042
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:104391

Title: Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska.
Description: Alaska Native young men. Augustus, Zecharias. Text transcribed from caption: Eskimo young men. Augustus, Zecharias.
Date Created: 1895, ca. 1895
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Alaska Natives--Alaska.
Geographic subjects: Alaska., Alaska., North and Central America--United States--Alaska
Physical Location: RG 239, Box 16, Folder 10, Image No. 1441; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Identifier (local): photographsrelat00unse_10_0049
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:103818

Title: Families/groups in Alaska.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: Sheldon Jackson, Harvey Townsend, John Shields.
Creator Name(s): Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902. (photographer)
Date Created: 1877, ca. 1877-1907
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Children--Alaska.
Geographic subjects: Alaska., Alaska., North and Central America--United States--Alaska
Physical Location: RG 239, Box 11, Folder 20, Image No. 197; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Identifier (local): photographsoffam00unse_0018
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:103020

Title: Sitka, Alaska.
Description: Presbyterian Industrial School, Sitka, Alaska, U.S., 1887.
Creator Name(s): Partridge Photo (Boston, Mass.) (photographer)
Date Created: 1887
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Alaska Native children--Education--Alaska--Sitka., Missionaries--Alaska--Sitka., Missions--Educational work--Alaska--Sitka., Portraits, Group--Alaska--Sitka.
Geographic subjects: Alaska, Sitka., Alaska, Sitka., Sitka (Alaska), North and Central America--United States--Alaska--Sitka--Sitka, Alaska, Sitka., Alaska, Sitka.
Physical Location: RG 239, Box 12, Folder 29, Image No. 485; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Identifier (local): photographsofsit00unse_0003
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:103244

Title: Education in Alaska Report.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: Anvik, Yukon River, 1894.
Date Created: 1894
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects: Alaska., North and Central America--United States--Alaska--Anvik--Yukon-Koyukuk
Physical Location: RG 239, Box 15, Folder 6, Image No. 1179; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Identifier (local): photographsrelat00unse_5_0028
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:103699

Title: Alaska Commission on Education Report.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: Akoutan, Trading Post. Page 1295.
Date Created: 1889, ca. 1889-1890
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects: Akutan (Alaska), North and Central America--United States--Aleutians West--Alaska--Akutan--Akutan Island
Physical Location: RG 239, Box 14, Folder 34, Image No. 918; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Identifier (local): photographsrelat00unse_1_0049
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:103633

Title: Places in Alaska.
Description: Umiak load. School house and village at Cape Prince of Wales, 1892. The small white object on the beach is the Richard Salter Storr's [Richard Salter Storrs] Chapel and School House.
Date Created: 1892
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Storrs, Richard S. (Richard Salter), 1821-1900.
Topical Subject(s): Missions--Alaska--Prince of Wales, Cape., Villages--Alaska--Prince of Wales, Cape.
Geographic subjects: Alaska, Prince of Wales, Cape., Alaska, Prince of Wales, Cape., Prince of Wales, Cape (Alaska), North and Central America--United States--Nome--Alaska--Cape Prince of Wales
Physical Location: RG 239, Box 12, Folder 2, Image No. 294; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Identifier (local): photographsofpla00unse_0014
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:103088

Title: Places in Alaska.
Description: Mr. & Mrs. W.T. Lopp, Mr. McClellan, Bruce Gibson. The herders and herd at Reindeer Station, Port Clarence, Alaska, Sept. 1892. W.M.B.
Date Created: 1892, September 1892, September 1892
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Lopp, William Thomas, 1864-1939., Gibson, Bruce., Lopp, William Thomas, Mrs.
Topical Subject(s): Missions--Alaska--Port Clarence., Missionaries--Alaska--Port Clarence., Reindeer--Alaska--Port Clarence., Alaska Natives--Alaska--Port Clarence.
Geographic subjects: Alaska, Port Clarence., Alaska, Port Clarence., Alaska, Port Clarence., Port Clarence (Alaska), North and Central America--United States--Nome--Alaska--Port Clarence, Alaska, Port Clarence.
Physical Location: RG 239, Box 12, Folder 21, Image No. 434; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Identifier (local): photographsofpla00unse_0_0021
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:103199

Title: Prospect Hill Monument in Woodbury County, Iowa.
Description: [Prospect Hill Monument in Woodbury County, Iowa] Erected by Iowa Presbyterians in memory of Rev. Sheldon Jackson, Rev. T.H. Cleland, Rev. J.C. Elliott pioneer missionaries who on April 29, 1869 from this hill top viewed the great unchurched areas and after prayer went out to win the west for Christ. [Historical Sites Registry].
Date Created: 1996, ca. 1996
Name Subject(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909., Cleland, Thomas H. (Thomas Horace), 1816-1892.
Topical Subject(s): Monuments--Iowa--Woodbury County.
Geographic subjects: Woodbury County (Iowa)--Monuments., North and Central America--United States--Iowa
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 03-0123, Site No. 402; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Historical Society. American Presbyterian/Reformed Historic Sites Registry Records, 1972-2005.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MzY3NQ==
Identifier (local): ds4216
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:8372

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