ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

15th ANNUAL SILENT AUCTION

Auction closes at 3:30 p.m.

Friday, October 2, 2015 Cordova, Alaska

All of the items offered in this auction should be of interest to SILENT AUCTION BID FORM those supporting the Alaska Historical Society and to those persons involved in researching Alaska’s colorful past. Please If you are unable to attend the Cordova conference you can show your appreciation for this effort to raise funds to be used for submit absentee bids for the quality and not-so-quality historic historical projects by bidding outrageously on items. Anything Alaskana offered in this auction. Non-members are welcome to paid over the estimated value of the item should be tax deductible. bid. For those not at the meting, successful bidders will be Bidding is open to all. notified by mid-October.

The auction will take place during the Alaska Historical Society’s ITEM # DESCRIPTION BID annual meeting to be held September 29-October 3, 2015 at Cordova, Alaska. ______

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[email protected]. If you are not an e-mail user, you can mail bids to the Society at P.O. Box 100299, Anchorage, AK 99510, or phone 907.276.1596 and leave a message. Bids must be received by October 1, 2015. They must Items for this auction have been generously donated by Candy be for at least 50% of the estimated value of the item. Waugaman, Floyd Smith, Jim Simard, Frances Rose, Frank Roppel, Katie Ringsmuth, Kathryn Myers, Janet Klein, Karen Name: ______Hofstad, Rogan Faith, Jim Ducker, Alexander Dolitsky, Kaye Dethridge & Irene Shuler, Ross Coen, Rosemary Carlton, Karen Address: ______Brewster, Joan Antonson, Chris Allan. City, state, zip code: ______Catalog cover photo courtesy of Candy Waugaman. 1. 1933-1934 ALASKA PASSENGER LIST on the Canadian took hold in the north in the early 1900s? These are in excellent Pacific Railway Company, sailing from Victoria June 9 and from shape with dust jackets. A must have for any Alaskana collector. Vancouver June 10 to Southeast Alaska ports. This small 8 page Estimated value $150.00 + cover “brochure” is a bit of Alaskan ephemera for the tourism collector. 6. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names by Donald Orth, 1967. Estimated value $12.00 This is the first edition of the 1,084 page book that is a must have for any Alaskan. Weighs about a ton, and lists tens of thousands 2. ALASKA TRANSFER CALENDAR from Juneau, Alaska, of Alaskan place names. There are 53 Moose Creeks! In 1951. In near mint condition, this Juneau Company, phone #114, excellent condition with the former owner’s name written inside. used the popular Boy Scouts of America picture done by Norman Estimated value: $180.00 Rockwell on the calendar. Estimated value $25.00 7. COMPILATION OF THE ACTS OF CONGRESS AND TREATIES RELATING TO ALASKA FROM 3/30/1867 TO 3. ALASKA: ITS NEGLECTED PAST, ITS BRILLIANT 3/3/1905 by Fred F. Barker, published in 1906. This is a rare FUTURE by Bushrod Washington James, 1899. This appears to original edition of this record of early Alaskan activities. have a replica title page, but otherwise all original in very good Estimated value $250.00 condition. 444 pages about early Alaska with 42 chapters covering multiple subjects, and a bibliography of Alaskan 8. WHITE PASS & YUKON ROUTE brochure, 4” x 9” entitled literature published to date. This is an original first edition. Comments Alaska, Atlin and the Yukon. This 24-page book of Estimated value $85.00 letters on the railroad and trips taken probably was done around 1931, and includes a separate flyer with the 1931 trips and fares. 4. JOSEPHINE CRUMRINE dog menus, 7 total with 3 blank and Page 2 of the brochure is a letter from George Buchanan, who unused (sold as souvenirs on the ship), 2 from the S.S. Glacier booked trips to Alaska called “On to Alaska With Buchanan” for Queen operated by Alaska Cruise Lines, and 2 from the S.S. youngsters. Good condition, with some pencil marks on it. Aleutian in 1954. Crumrine did a total of 8 different dog portraits Estimated value $30.00 that were used from the 1930s into the 60s, mainly by Alaska Steamship Company and later by Alaska Cruise Lines. 9. ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY 1931 oversized brochure Estimated value $40.00 entitled “Sailing Sheltered Seas….to the Land of the Midnight Sun.” This has photographs or drawings on every page, and 5. ALASKAN AVIATION HISTORY 2 volume set published in includes the Inside Passage and the Alaska Railroad trip to the 1990, by Robert W. Stevens. First volume covers 1897-1928; interior. In good shape, but missing the map from the back. second 1929-1930…does that tell you how fast air transportation Estimated value $25.00

10. INDIAN & ESKIMO ARTIFACTS OF NORTH AMERICA 15. ALASKA STEAMSHIP round brochure called “My Alaska by Charles Miles, 1963. This oversized 244-page book has Cruise.” This colorful bit of Alaskana is both text and pictures, hundreds and hundreds of pictures of Native artifacts. A very in almost new condition. These were given to passengers on the thorough view of items hard to find today, from Alaska and different steamers to make notes on their trip and include a brief throughout the U.S. history of Alaska. Estimated value $25.00 Estimated value $15.00

11. STERLING SILVER ALASKAN SPOON, 5½” in length, 16. FIVE KOTZEBUE POSTCARDS, all real photo postcards with a thin chain wrapped around the handle, and a gold pan with 4 taken by Frank Whaley, an early Alaskan senator, Wien marked “Alaska” and walrus at the top of the handle. Spoon is pilot in 1933, bush pilot, gold miner, photographer and film like new. producer. After he stopped flying in 1949 he worked for Wien as Estimated value $50.00 a photographer and a tour director. The Whaley postcards are The Huskies Take a Blow, Arctic Dance Drummers at Kotzebue, Miss 12. HERE AND THERE IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA by Arctic Circle Beauty Contest, and an aerial of the Arctic village of Trevor M. Davis, 1926. This 5½” x 7½” pamphlet/booklet is a Kotzebue. The 5th postcard by Johnston shows “Four Eskimo pictorial view of Alaska sold originally by Butler-Mauro Drug Natives with Sled Reindeer.” Company in Juneau. In good condition for its upcoming 90th Estimated value $25.00 birthday, it contains photos from Skagway to Ketchikan. Estimated value $30.00 17. KOBUK MAIDEN AND OTHER ALASKA SOURDOUGH VERSES by Elmer Reed, 1933, Juneau. This unique book of 13. FIVE ALASKAN POSTCARDS from the linen era. These poetry contains “A Collection of Alaska Verses Compiled from show “An Alaskan Indian Cache” by Schallerer’s in Seward, an Newspapers Published in the Territory from 1866 to 1933.” In “Alaska Huskie” by Tichnor Quality Views, and 3 H.H.T. Co. good condition, this booklet has 34 pages of unique verse. views including “Juneau, Alaska” and Ketchikan and an Alaska Estimated value $30.00 Eagle. All are unused and in okay condition. Estimated value $12.00 18. ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY passenger list on the S.S. Dorothy Alexander, sailing from Seattle on July 30, 1937. 14. BIRDS OF ALASKA by Ira N. Gabrielson and Frederick C. This eight page list measures approximately 5” x 7” with the last Lincoln. This 1959 fantastic 922-page book on Alaskan birds is page being autographs of passengers and crew obtained by the in good condition with a torn dust jacket. Published by the traveler. Pamphlet lists the passengers, where they are from, and Stackpole Company in Pennsylvania, it claims to have taken 14 where they are enroute to on this sailing. In good condition. years of research to prepare. Estimated value $10.00 Estimated value $95.00 19. FIVE ALASKA REAL PHOTO POSTCARDS showing a Trapper’s Cache; S.S. Yukon-Resurrection Bay-Seward, Alaska 24. PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY very unique luncheon by the Alaska Shop in Seward; Fighting Moose Locked Horns- menu. Dated September 17, 1929 this menu is on board the S.S. Death by Starvation by Griffin’s Studio in Fairbanks; Providence Dorothy Alexander enroute from Ketchikan to Seattle. It is the Hospital, Anchorage by Robinson Photo; and the Westward only one Candy Waugaman has ever seen in its format. Hotel, Anchorage by Robinson Photo. All are in good, unused Estimated value $15.00 condition. Estimated value $25.00 25. FOUR REAL PHOTO POSTCARDS showing an Alaska Reindeer, Eskimo Cutting Snow Blocks at Kotzebue, Totem of 20. MELVIN RICKS’ ALASKA BIBLIOGRAPHY, An Chief Kian-Ketchikan, Alaska, and Memorial Rogers & Post Introductory Guide to Alaskan Historical Literature, 1977, by Walikipaw, Alaska. All unused and in good condition. Stephen Haycox. This is a must-have for any Alaskan historian or Estimated value $16.00 collector, listing countless books, articles and newspapers in and about Alaska. In very good condition. 26. CHILKOOT PASS AND SONGS OF ALASKA by Sylvester Estimated value $30.00 Kendrick, 1926. This small book of poetry is unique with a salutation in the front to the “Brothers of ninety-eight.” Poetry 21. ALASKAN SOUVENIR SPOON from Valdez. This is a covers Chilkoot Pass, Lake Bennett, White Horse Rapids, Nome, demitasse spoon with a 3¾” totem handle. The bowl has a view and other places. of the long dock in early Valdez. The reverse of the handle says Estimated value $55.00 “Indian Totem Pole, Alaska” and is marked sterling. Estimated value $30.00 27. YUKON GOLD NUGGET SPOON 5¼ ” in length with “YUKON” inscribed in the bowl and a gold nugget at the tip of 22. KETCHIKAN ALASKA’S TOTEMLAND by Mary G. the handle. A great little item for a gift or to add to a collection, Balcom. This 1961 first edition shows some wear by way of the spoon is sterling and the nugget is legit. bends, but overall in good condition. The work has been Estimated value $30.00 reprinted several times. Autographed by author to a friend. Estimated value $10.00 28. IVORY LETTER OPENER BY NUGURUK, approximately 5½” in length. This lovely ivory Alaskan item has a dog team 23. SOUVENIR SPOON OF ALASKA 5 5/8” in length with with a sled and Native musher in a parka scrimshawed on the end. plain bowl. Alaska and gold pan are on the handle, and the Seal In excellent condition. of the Territory of Alaska is at the top of the handle. In excellent Estimated value $38.00 shape. This would be a great addition to a spoon collection. Estimated value $25.00 29. ALASKA STEAMSHIP BOWL, just under 6” x 4½” oval are lists of officers, events, and some membership lists. It is 77 bowl made by Mayer China for the company. This is one of the pages in length. hard-to-find pieces of china used for decades by the early Estimated value $80.00 transportation company in and out of Alaska. Bowl has a small dark spot that doesn’t come out . . . don’t know if it’s a 34. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALASKAN LITERATURE by manufacturer’s error or ???? James Wickersham, 1927. This was the first publication of the Estimated value $50.00 Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, and printed by the Cordova Daily Times. Book has 635 pages of citations of 30. SITKA BY THE SEA photograph by Case & Draper, books, articles, and documents relating to Alaska. It is in AS approximately 8” x 10” with some bends at two corners. This NEW condition. picture was taken around 1906. It is a waterfront view of part of Estimated value $175.00 Sitka. Estimated value $40.00 35. SOURDOUGH JIM PITCHER, The Autobiography of a Pioneer Alaskan. This is a 64-page magazine that Alaska 31. ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS by Elisha Kent Kane, reprint Northwest Publishing put out in 1985. It is about an early pioneer edition published in 1996. This book about “The Second Grinnell in the north. Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, 54, 55” is 447 Estimated value $25.00 pages. It is in new condition. Estimated value $20.00 36. SHELDON JACKSON SCHOOL brochure put out by the Women’s Board of Home Mission of the Presbyterian Church, 32. MODEL CAFÉ AND BAKERY, Cordova, Alaska. This around 1925. The brochure unfolds and offers over a dozen glass framed outdoor picture is actually a calendar from 1942. photographs of the school. It was used to raise money for school The metal piece on the bottom pulls out to show each month. operations. Used until April, this is in very good condition and has the wall Estimated value $15.00 hanger on the back. Estimated value $35.00 37. CANADIAN NATIONAL STEAMSHIPS menu from 1945. This item shows some wear from two pieces of tape on the cover. 33. ALASKA FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUB oversized The cover drawing for Alaska shows the “Indians at Ketchikan” book, a “Souvenir Edition 1924-26.” This book has some wear to drying fish. The meal sounds way too fancy to be served on the the cover but inside is in excellent condition. It has information S.S. Prince Rupert, and would be pretty fancy is made these days! on the 7 Women’s Clubs in Alaska—Anchorage, Seward, Estimated value $10.00 Skagway, Juneau, Douglas Island, Kodiak, and Wrangell. There 38. ALONG ALASKA’S GREAT RIVER by Frederick fraternal organizations. In good shape with no chips or cracks, Schwatka, reprint edition by Alaska Northwest Publishing, 1983. this blue and white 5¼” bowl perhaps was used for dessert??? This magazine formatted publication seems more readable than Estimated value $35.00 the original book. It’s an adventure filled read! Estimated value $25.00 44. COPPER ALASKA BOOKENDS manufactured to promote the sale of Alaska copper. These have a pattern 209 under “Buy 39. HAM RADIO or QSL CARDS from Alaskan locations, many Alaska Copper” on the bottom of each, with “ALASKA” added military and Ketchikan cards. The ones that have been mailed are on the outside in separate copper material. Unique! postmarked between the 1940s and 1970s. There are 15 unique Estimated value $30.00 cards. Estimated value $15.00 45. CHINA DESSERT DISH showing picture of “Alaska Indian Bydarka” in the middle. It was commissioned as part of a series 40. ANNUAL SPRING FROLIC DANCE CARD put out by the done “Compliments of the Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co., military occupying the Alaska Railroad during World War II. Valdez, Alaska” in 1909. This “made in Germany” dish is 7” in The 714th Ry. Open Battalion put on the event, probably held at diameter and a great bit of advertising for the bank. Perhaps it the Mt. McKinley Park Hotel March 18, 1944. In excellent shape. was gifted to their depositors at Christmas. There is some fading Estimated value $40.00 in the subject wording, but otherwise in good condition. Estimated value $75.00 41. SYDNEY LAURENCE 2016 calendar. New! This is a great item for a gift for a friend, and can be used instead of added to a 46. BROWN & HAWKINS COPERATION, Seward, Alaska collection!! shoehorn! Now how many of you participating in this auction Estimated value $12.00 have such a unique item? It is in great shape, probably put out for B & H by Red Wing Shoes whose logo is on it. This is something 42. PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY Souvenir Passenger List you can actually still use! from the July 8, 1925 sailing of the S.S. Queen to Alaska. Ports Estimated value $15.00 of call were Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau and Skagway on this 24-day trip that cost $188.00. The passenger list 47. THE SPELL OF THE YUKON and other verses by Robert folds so it could be mailed as a postcard. In very good condition. W. Service, dated 1907 but probably not a first edition as so many Estimated value $15.00 people think. Among the great poems are the Law of the Yukon, Land God Forgot, Heart of the Sourdough, Call of the Wild, 43. FORGET-ME-NOT REBEKAH LODGE NO. 8 AND Shooting of Dan McGrew, Cremation of Sam McGee, and of CORDOVA LODGE I.O.O.F. (Oddfellows) No. A-9 bowl. course the title poem. Marked semi-porcelain on the bottom. It was used by the Estimated valued $10.00 Dolitsky, 2007. There are articles about the program and its 48. ALASKA SPORTSMAN magazines from November and legacy and lots of great photographs. Hardcover, new. December 1950. The stories include the Mad Trappers of the Estimated value $25.00 Kantishna, Arctic Trap Line, Bears in the Alders, Moose Melees, and more. In good condition. 54. SPIRIT OF THE NORTH: THE ART OF EUSTACE PAUL Estimated value $10.00 ZIEGLER, by Kesler E. Woodward, 1998. Ziegler is perhaps Cordova’s most famous artist, and this book has lots of his 49. FIFTY YEARS IN ALASKA by Carl J. Lomen, in very good paintings in color. Hardcover, autographed, dust jacket, and in condition with dust jacket. Published in 1954, it tells Lomen’s new condition. life in Nome and involvement in the Arctic from his arrival in Estimated value $30.00 1900 for the next half-century. Estimated value $50.00 55. UNDER THE NORTHERN LIGHTS, by Alice M. Guersney, 1917. The Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist 50. MANY BATTLES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ERNEST Episcopal Church published this work. Paper, 121 pages, worn GRUENING, 1973. This 563-page tome is in great condition, but in good condition. with a little fading on the dust cover. Originally prices at $12.95, Estimated value $20.00 this copy was bought at the Book Cache for $2.25, but hopefully someone will pay more for it at the auction. 56. PACIFIC AMERICAN FISHERIES, INC: HISTORY OF A Estimated value $30.00 WASHINGTON STATE SALMON PACKING COMPANY, 1890-1966, by August C. Radke, 2002. The company caught and 51. THE COPPER SPIKE by Lone E. Janson. Published in 1975, canned salmon in Alaska from Southeast to Bristol Bay, as well as it profiled great photographs of the railroad, Cordova, and other places in Washington. Paperback, in great condition. Kennecott copper mines. The paperback is in new condition. Estimated value $40.00 Estimated value $25.00 57. THROUGH ORTHODOX EYES: RUSSIAN 52. ARCTIC WAR PLANES: ALASKA AVIATION OF WW II MISSIONARY NARRATIVES OF TRAVELS TO THE by Stephen E. Mills, 1971. The book has over 420 photographs. DENA’INA AND AHTNA, 1850s-1930s, translated with an Hardcover, dust jacket, but a few pages are loose. introduction by Andrei A. Znamenski, 2003. The volume has I Estimated value $15.00 interesting and insightful accounts by six Orthodox clergy. Paperback, new. 53. ALLIES IN WARTIME: THE ALASKA-SIBERIA Estimated value, $25.00 AIRWAY DURING WORLD WAR II, edited by Alexander B. 58. BUILDINGS OF ALASKA, by Alison K. Hoagland, 1993. historical overview of people and events in the Copper River Although published more than 20 years ago, this is still the go-to drainage. Paperback, autographed by the author, long out-of- book for folks in historic preservation. And it has been of interest print, and in excellent condition. to many travelers. Hardcover with dust jacket and in new Estimated value $30.00 condition. Estimated value $20.00 64. A TOURIST’S GUIDE TO MOUNT MCKINLEY, Bradford Washburn, revised edition 1980. To no surprise, the book has lots 59. 1956 SALMON PACKERS’ REGISTER, 27th edition. The of photographs, and a number are in color. It has lots of Public Fisherman published this book. Arranged alphabetically. information and a milepost guide to the park road. It is 80 pages A great reference source! Paper, 245 pages, good condition. long, paperback, and in very good condition. Estimated value $35.00 Estimated value $10.00

60. KROLL MAP OF ALASKA. The map folds up to fit in a 65. FROM FISH AND COPPER: CORDOVA’S HERITAGE purse of pocket. It has the name of a former owner on the cover, AND BUILDINGS, by Nick J. Nielsen, 1984. This book is about but the map itself is in excellent shape. The population for 1939 the historic buildings in Cordova. A good community resource. is given so assume that is around the date it was published. It is paperback, 8½ x 11 format, 66 pages, and in new condition. Estimated value $15.00 Estimated value $25.00

61. EYAK LEGENS OF THE COPPER RIVER DELTA, 66. COPPER PLATE. Alan Faith worked for the Cordova Times ALASKA, compiled by John F.C. Johnson. This book was newspaper from 1928-1931, and obtained this plate while there. compiled in the 1970s and has great photographs. Paperback, It has a cache and word Alaska visible. The plate shows wear. 8½” x 11”, 120 pages, and in new condition. Son Rogan recently took it to the appraisers who were at the Estimated value $25.00 Anchorage Museum and they said nice things about it and estimated its value. 62. NORTH PACIFIC FISHERIES WITH SPECIAL Estimated value $50.00 REFERENCE TO ALASKA SALMON, by Homer E. Gregory and Kathleen Barnes, 1959. The book talks about conservation, 67. ALASKA TRAVEL BINGO CARDS. Remember travel economic factors, labor, marketing, prices, foreign trade, and still bingo from long road trips as a kid? These are great. There are 2 more topics. Hardcover. each of the King Salmon, Midnight Sun, Dall Sheep, and Forget- Estimated value $20.00 Me-Not cards. Clearly Alaska themed! Estimated value $12.00 63. ALASKA’S COPPER RIVER: THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES, by William S. Hanable, 1982. This book is a 68. APRON WITH A REPRODUCTION OF A SALMON It’s a page-turner! For someone taking the ferry home it would be LABEL: Choice Cohoe, Kelley-Clarke Co., Northern Coast a great read while on the boat! Hardcover, good condition. Brand. It would be a great gift item, or a very useful item for Estimated value $15.00 when you barbeque—or even clean your salmon! It’s new. 74. TEWKESBURY’S WHO’S WHO IN ALASKA AND Estimated value $15.00 ALASKA BUSINESS INDEX, 1947. This is a great reference work for the researcher working on post-World War II Alaska. 69. TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN THE TERRITORY OF Along with everything else, it has “much information of a ALASKA, by Frederick Whymper. This is the 1966 reprint miscellaneous character”. Hardcover, excellent condition. edition of a classic of Alaskana. Good book to understand Alaska Estimated value $35.00 in the 1860s as you prepare for the sesquicentennial of the Alaska purchase! Hardcover, new condition. 75. ALASKA CHUM SALMON CHIEF BRAND, Alaska Estimated value $25.00 Packers Association, colorful 1 lb. salmon can label. The chiefs are wearing Plains Indian headdresses. 70. VINTAGE SOUVENIR PILLOW COVER showing a map of Estimated value $5.00 Alaska. Measures 18” x 18” and has yellow fringe. Estimated value $12.00 76. SALMON FROM KODIAK, An History of the Salmon Fishery of Kodiak Island, Alaska, by Patricia Roppel, 1986. This 71. CLOTH NAPKINS FROM TED STEVENS’ SILVER is the first edition with the sturdy paper cover and sewn pages. ANNIVERSARY, DECEMBER 28, 1993. There are five of these The book is once again out-of-print and in demand. This copy is blue napkins noting the occasion and including the Senate logo in new condition. and date. They are new. Estimated value $50.00 Estimated value $25.00 77. FRIGID EMBRACE: POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND 72. IMPERIO DE TITANES MOVIE POSTER, i.e. Edna ENVIRONMENT IN ALASKA, by Stephen Haycox. For this Ferber’s Ice Palace. The movie is so-so, but this lobby card is work the Alaska Historical Society recognized the author as spectacular. It is full color, measures 13” x 17”, and shows stills Historian of the Year. The author wrote a personal note to the from the Richard Burton-Robert Ryan film, including the former owner. Paperback, excellent condition. infamous fight scene between a man and a bear. Estimated value $20.00 Estimated value $15.00 78. A DANGEROUS IDEA: The Alaska Native Brotherhood 73. SPAWN OF THE NORTH, by Barrett Willoughby, 1932. and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights, by Peter Metcalfe with This is one of the novels written by a one-time Cordova resident. Kathy Kolkhorst Ruddy, 2014. Historians have wanted a history of the Southeast Alaska organization that played a critically important role in working for the rights of Alaska’s Native 83. AN ABRIDGED HISTORY OF ALASKA by John W. people. Paperback, new. Brown (a lawyer of the Seattle Bar), published in 1909. The Estimated value $25.00 organization is by the three judicial districts of the time—and the 79. A GUIDE TO ALASKA BY MERLE COLBY, published in information for the Third Division is short! The book has an 1942, should be in every historian’s library. The book was index. It’s paper, 96 pages, and includes photographs. produced as part of the series for every state and territory done Estimated value $25.00 under the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal program. The hardcover book is in good shape. 84. ANNUAL REPORT NO. 1 FOR THE YEAR 1949, Estimated value $20.00 ALASKA DEPARMENT OF FISHERIES. This is a 40 page pamphlet in great condition. Along with good information for a 80. THE STORY OF SALMON no date, is a 24-booklet researcher, this should appeal to a collector. published by the Carlisle Packing Company of Seattle. The Estimated value $50.00 pages in the center have the company’s different labels and are printed in color. There are also some great photographs in the 85. DICTIONARY OF THE CHINOOK JARGON, OR INDIAN text of places around the territory including Fort Yukon and TRADE LANGUAGE, OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST, a Cordova. In very good condition. 1972 reprint of the 36-page booklet originally published in Estimated value $15.00 Victoria, B.C. in 1899. Part I is Chinook to English, and Part II is English to Chinook. On page 35 is the Lord’s Prayer in Jargon. 81. PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES by John N. Cobb, 1917. Estimated value $10.00 This is a bound copy of Cobb’s report for the Bureau of Fisheries. Along with this report is an offprint about Cobb published in the 86. HISTORIC MCCARTHY: THE TOWN THAT COPPER Marine Fisheries Review in 2005. The book was discarded by the BUILT, by Mark J. Kirchhoff, 1993. The author received the Seattle Public Library, but the report is complete and this is a Alaska Historical Society’s Historian of the Year Award for this great chance to get this vital reference. illustrated history of the town next to the Kennecott Mines. It’s a Estimated value $30.00 well-researched and well-told community history. Autographed by the author, hardcover, dust jacket, in excellent condition. 82. THE ESKIMO PRINCESS by Sam Samson. This is a most Estimated value $20.00 curious little book with a totally misleading title. The subtitle is A story of a Million Dollar Gold Discovery in the Cyrus Noble in 87. THE RED DRAGON AND ST. GEORGE’S: GLIMPSES Nome, Alaska. Published in 1951, Samson told his story to INTO CORDOVA’S PAST, by Nicki J. Nielsen, 1983. After you Mignon Maynard Chisam. Hardcover, 50 pages, dust jacket, and have been to these two historic buildings while attending the has a photocopy of a 1905 article confirming the story. conference, you will want this illustrated history to remember Estimated value $40.00 your visit! It is autographed by the author to a visitor, but 93. THE IRON TRAIL: AN ALASKA ROMANCE by Rex otherwise new. It is 67 pages, 8½” x 11”, and spiral bound. Beach. Originally written in 1912, this novel is still in print. This Estimated value $12.00 copy is for someone to read on the ferry or a camping trip, pocketbook size and intact. It just didn’t seem right to meet in 88. APRON, black in color, with Brooks Lodge, Katmai National Cordova and not have a copy of this book in the auction. Park, Alaska embroidered on it. A very useful item when baking Estimated value $4.00 for the holidays or cleaning fish. Alternatively, a very nice gift as it is new. 94. CATCH-A-CAN BRAND FRESH RED SALMON LABEL. Estimated value $15.00 The label is for salmon packed by the Fidalgo Island Canning Company of Ketchican [sic], Alaska. Like the other label in the 89. Blueprints for an “Iron Chink” Model ‘G’ 193 parts list, a auction, the Native doesn’t look Alaskan. The donor says this is a catalog for a Conco Rotary Fish Filler Model 2, and an illustrated hard-to-come by label, so there’s a big difference in value from booklet Inside an Alaskan Cannery (1972). Good stuff! the other label in the auction! Estimated value $15.00 Estimated value $50.00

90. THE RISE OF ICICLE SEAFOODS FROM THE ROOTS 95. MEN’S SHORT-SLEEVE BUTTON-DOWN SOUVENIR OF ALASKA STATEHOOD by Brad Warren, 2005. Written and SHIRT. Who needs a Hawaiian shirt when you could have an published to celebrate the company’s 40th anniversary. Historic Alaskan shirt? Lots of place names, maps, animals, and symbols black and white and contemporary color photographs throughout. of the state. It has a label identifying it as a “David Carey Hardcover with dust jacket, 194 pages, and new. Original.” Size large. It would be a great gift for a snowbird to Estimated value $50.00 wear on a golf course this winter! Estimated value $25.00 91. KING CON: THE STORY OF SOAPY SMITH, by Jane G. Haigh. Originally published in 2006, this is the revised edition 96. ALASKAN MAPS: A CARTOBIBLIOGRAPHY OF published in 2013. An entertaining well-written biography of the ALASKA TO 1900 by Marvin Falk, published in1983. This great life of one of Skagway’s notorious early residents. reference book includes a history of Alaskan cartography. It has Estimated value $15.00 an index making it easy to use as well. Hardcover, like new condition. 92. TWO IVORY PINS showing an individual ice fishing. Estimated value $40.00 Notably, they are signed on the back Howard Weyahok, better known as Howard Rock. They would be great gifts! 97. POLE STAR by Stewart Edward White and Harry DeVighne, Estimated value $25.00 1935. This is a first edition. It is a novel set in Russian America. The author included a note that it was necessary to introduce some small chronological changes, and then in the next sentence says the historical picture is accurate, especially about Baranov. 103. TEN LANTERN SLIDES, 3.5” x 4”, a mix of color and Estimated value $8.00 black and white, some double glass, some single. Eight of the images are of Alaska: the White Pass, a ship, king salmon, 98. OLD ENGLISH CANADIAN CURED BONELESS Juneau, waterfalls, caribou, the Treadwell Mine, and a map of CHOICE SALT CODFISH WOOD PACKING CASE END. Alaska, and two are of Cornwall, England. They are in a This 4” x 6” treasure is nicely framed. Don’t know more about it, charming little turn of the century box as well. but it is very, very cool. Estimated value $25.00 Estimated value $40.00 104. POSTCARD MAILER with 16 different linen postcards 99. PICTURE MAN: THE LEGACY OF SOUTHEAST (eight cards, each with 2 different designs on front and back) of ALASKA PHOTOGRAPHER SHOKI KAYAMORI by Margaret Alaska scenes. Mailed July 27, 1956. The back has a beautiful Thomas, 2014. The author spoke at the AHS conference a few image of Mt. McKinley—now a collector’s item! years ago about this Japanese immigrant who lived and took Estimated value $5.00 photographs in Yakutat in the early 1900s. Paperback, new. Estimated value $25.00 105. WOOD AND LEATHER SCRAPBOOK. This empty scrapbook has “Story of Alaska” and symbols on the front. You 100. 1946 ALASKA FISHERMAN’S ALMANAC. When would have fun filling the pages with the story of your Alaska to published it sold for $1.00 a copy. The contents include tide and share with your family and friends! current tables, navigation suggestions, boat safety and sanitation, Estimated value $20.00 how to prevent fish poisoning, a list of owners of numbered boats in Alaska, and great ads. Paperback, 200 pages, good condition. 106. FIVE MURIAL HANNAH PORTRAITS. Four different Estimated value $30.00 calendar-sized color portraits: “Elizzie, 1955;” “John Friendly, Quinhagak, AK” 1966; Unnamed woman wearing fur ruff and 101. STERLING SILVER PICKLE / OLIVE FORK. The fork is parka, copyright 1964; and two copies of an unknown girl holding 4” long, has “ALASKA” printed on it, and a salmon at the top. a white puppy, copyright 1965. They are from Northern Use it for your next cocktail party! Consolidated calendars; three have the NCA logo and say Estimated value $15.00 Northern on them. Good condition. Estimated value $30.00 102. TWO ALASKAN POSTCARDS, “A Northern Convention” or a family reunion of sea gulls in Alaska, and Skagway and the Lynn Canal. Both are unused, in good condition. Estimated value $5.00