Staff of the Alaska State Library – Alaska Historical Collections recently made all 90 photographs from the Thomas T. Taber Photograph Collection (ASL-PCA-19) available on Alaska’s Digital Archives.
Content Description
Mostly scenic views of southeast and southcentral Alaska dated 1928 to 1931. Taber, his wife and a few friends appear in several of the photos.
Biographical
Mr. Taber, Sr. made two trips to Alaska, one being his honeymoon in 1928. Mr. Taber, Jack M. Green and Rollo M. Hillman were auditors for the New York Life Insurance Co. and Alaska was part of their territory for inspections. Thomas Taber may have made return trips to Alaska working for the company.
The 2022 Contributions to Literacy in Alaska (CLIA) Awards from the Alaska Center for the Book recognize innovation and dedication to literacy and literature. The Awards were presented during the Northern Renaissance Arts & Sciences Reading Series on July 15 in the UAA Fine Arts Building.
State Library Director Patience Fredericksen was one of four honorees, along with Anchorage early learning advocate Abbe Hensley, state writer laureate Heather Lende of Haines, and the southwest Alaska community of Igiugig.
The 132-year-old Diamond NN Cannery is Alaska’s longest-running fish processing facility. It operated from 1895 until 2014. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places last year, August 2021.
That listing was recognized at a dedication ceremony in South Naknek during the 40th annual Bristol Bay Fishtival, held in Naknek July 22-24.
KDLG's Corinne Smith talked to Katie Ringsmuth, the Alaska state historian and the NN Cannery History Project director. Ringsmuth said this is the first Bristol Bay cannery to receive national recognition.
"Dedication ceremony held for Diamond NN Cannery in South Naknek" by Corinne Smith, August 2, 2022. KDLG.org.
[N]ot long from now, the sky will be full of visible stars. And the Kenai Community Library is ready.
“We were able to purchase telescopes and binoculars. So when we get dark again, people can actually go out and they can check out a telescope and they can look at the stars," said Elizabeth Kleweno, program coordinator for the Kenai Community Library.
The library has a grant from NASA that it’s using to promote the new James Webb Telescope. The first images from the telescope were publicized last week and today, the library celebrated the astronomical milestone with a dedicated James Webb Day, including bingo, take-home kits and a space-themed story time.
"NASA grant brings space programs into library's orbit' by Sabine Poux, July 20, 2022. KDLL.org.
Historic Dena’ina cultural areas near Fish Creek in the Upper Cook Inlet will soon be mapped as part of a project funded this month through a National Park Service grant.
The almost $38,000 Tribal Heritage program grant was awarded July 15 to the Knik Tribe through an application process. Tribal leaders plan to work with an archeologist, field assistants and possibly several students from the Tribe’s new Knik Cultural Charter School to survey the area for any cultural signs of the Native people who lived and subsisted in the area for thousands of years, according to the grant application.
The 32-acres of state owned land are a known home to Native cultural features. But because the region today is a popular area for both recreation and subsistence, including dipnetting and ATV trails, those sites are at risk of being destroyed, said Richard Martin, Knik’s historic preservation officer and mapper, who applied for the grant on behalf of the Tribe.
By mapping the area they can work to better preserve the history there, he said.
"Knik cultural mapping project gets park service grant" by Amy Bushatz, August 3, 2022. Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman.
Linda Rowell competed with the noise of seagulls and boat horns in the Homer Harbor, as she guided tourists and locals on a walking tour of the Spit in early July.
Rowell is a 76-year-old former teacher and has lived in Alaska for nearly five decades. And for the past 25 years, she has volunteered as the guide for the Homer Harbor History Tour through the Pratt Museum.
Even though she originally had no intention of living in Alaska, she said guiding the tour allows her to introduce tourists and locals to the place she has come to love.
"Meet Linda Rowell: Homer Harbor’s historian and tour guide for over two decades" by Desiree Hagen, August 2, 2022. KBBI.org.
Huna Heritage Digital Archives Webinar
August 30, 9 am
Amelia Wilson, Executive Director of Huna Heritage Foundation will give a presentation on the Huna Heritage Digital Archives, which received the Archives Institutional Excellence Award from the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums (ATALMS) in 2019.
From Amelia Wilson:
This webinar will tell the story of how our digital archives came to be and how we have grown and developed. The Huna Heritage Digital Archives preserves local histories, promotes access and use, and fosters intergenerational connections. Amelia Wilson, the Executive Director of Huna Heritage Foundation, will share what, why, where, how and who of our cultural heritage through the digital archives. Representing a small, rural, and remote Alaska Native village, we will show how our story can be valuable to similar establishments wanting to start or further develop their digital heritage preservation efforts.
Over 140 documents from notebooks and reports that feature first-person accounts of glacial landscapes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are now available to the public through the CU Digital Library.
These expedition notebooks and reports come from the Roger G. Barry glaciology collection, which was donated to the CU Boulder Libraries’ Archives from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in 2017. The contents include glacier and ice discoveries from early expeditions to Alaska and U.S. National Parks, daily logs documenting observations such as weather and occasional interactions with indigenous communities.
"Rare glacier research notebooks now available digitally" July 26, 2022
Images from the early 20th century sent to Rome by priests in Canada
About 1,000 black-and-white photos from the early days of Canada's residential school system have been discovered in the archives of a Roman Catholic order in Rome.
Raymond Frogner, head of archives at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) in Winnipeg, found the photographs earlier this month when he was given exclusive access to the Oblate General Archives to identify residential school records.
This message is being posted on behalf of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT), Government Information for Children (GIC) Committee.
K-12 students (including homeschoolers) are invited to celebrate Constitution Day (September 17, 2022) by designing a poster showing how they benefit from the freedoms embodied in the U.S. Constitution.
The Constitution Day Poster Contest is promoted by the GIC Committee of ALA’s GODORT. There are prizes for each grade, and each grade winner will receive a Constitution commemorative coin with the grand prize winner also receiving a $100 cash prize. Entries must be postmarked by October 1, 2022.
About 90,000 Alaska households are eligible for up to a $75-per-month broadband subsidy and $100 toward a device for online access, but only about 10,000 are taking advantage, according to the White House.
So the White House on Thursday had Vice President Kamala Harris tout a recently launched “one-stop” website intended to make signing up easier.
The Affordable Connectivity Program, part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed last year, provides monthly subsidies of $30 for “most eligible families” in the U.S., but the $75 credit for those on tribal lands. And as GCI notes at the ACP portion of its website: “All of Alaska is considered Tribal Lands and will be eligible for the tribal subsidy rate available based on their plan and location.”
"90K Alaska households are eligible for internet assistance —only 10K are taking advantage" by Mark Sabbatini, July 21, 2022. Juneau Empire.
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