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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: An appeal for Alaska.
Creator Name(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909. (author)
Date Created: 1880, ca. 1880
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Woman's Executive Committee for Home Missions.
Topical Subject(s): Missions--Alaska.
Geographic subjects: Alaska., Alaska., North and Central America--United States--Alaska
Physical Location: JACKSONPAM 4; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: An appeal for Alaska.--https://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=33393
Identifier (local): jacksonpam_4
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:90619

Title: The neglect of education in Alaska.
Description: Address given by Sheldon Jackson on March 23, 1882, in Washington at an unidentified national meeting of educators and printed in Circulars of information for 1882, Department of Superintendence, from which this has been extracted.
Creator Name(s): Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909. (author)
Date Created: 1882
Topical Subject(s): Missions--Alaska., Education--Alaska.
Geographic subjects: Alaska., Alaska., Alaska, North and Central America--United States--Alaska
Physical Location: JACKSON 289; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: The neglect of education in Alaska.--https://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=33503
Identifier (local): jackson_289
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:90652

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: 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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