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REFERENCE CODE: AkAMH REPOSITORY NAME: Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center Bob and Evangeline Atwood Alaska Resource Center 625 C Street Anchorage, AK 99501 Phone: 907-929-9235 Fax: 907-929-9233 Email: [email protected] Guide prepared by: Sara Piasecki, Photo Archivist TITLE: Hobart Hyatt Collection COLLECTION NUMBER: B2012.030 OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION Dates: circa 1950-2003 (bulk 1951-1969) Extent: 4 boxes, 4.5 linear feet Language and Scripts: The collection is in English. Name of creator(s): Hobart Hyatt, Marion B. Hyatt, Hewitt’s Photos, Mac’s Foto Service, Howard C. Robinson, W. L. Brewington, Bert’s Photo Shops, Robert A. Hall, Harold W. Johnson, Everett J. Wilde, Griffin’s, Schallerer’s Photo Shop, The Gift Shop (Wrangell, Alaska), Bessie Dedman, E. Wolf, Outdoor Films Administrative/Biographical History: Hobart Barr Hyatt was born on January 28, 1920, in Waynesville, North Carolina, to Raymond and Marion Hyatt. He was educated at Brevard College (1940) and North Carolina State (1947). He was commissioned into the United States Army in 1942 and served as a field artillery training officer and in quartermasters’ stores in Japan. In 1948, he began work as a cadastral surveyor for the U.S. General Land Office. He transferred to Alaska in 1950, and worked as a surveyor for the Bureau of Land Management until his retirement in 1975. He was interested in philately and belonged to several clubs, including the Anchorage Philatelic Society, the Gastineau Philatelic Society, and the Northern Lights Philatelic Society, and volunteered with the Junior Stamp Club. Hyatt died December 25, 2000, in Anchorage, Alaska. Scope and Content Description: The collection consists of 3,803 35mm color slides, along with three colored photographic prints, publications pertaining to cadastral surveying, and other ephemera. The majority of the photographs were taken by Hobart Hyatt and Marion Hyatt, though some were probably taken by colleagues and/or friends. Also included in the collection are commercially-produced slides, which have been separated out to the end of the slide series. Most slides have manuscript information on location and date of the image; a few have camera setting information (shutter speed, f stop, filters). Arrangement: Arranged in three series by format, and then chronologically. Series 4 includes previously separated materials located in 2013. 1. Publications and ephemera. 2. Photographic prints. 3. Slides. 4. 2013 Addendum. CONDITIONS GOVERNING ACCESS AND USE Restrictions on Access: The collection is open for research use. Physical Access: Original items in good condition. Technical Access: No special equipment is needed to access the materials. Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use: The Anchorage Museum is the owner of the materials and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Anchorage Museum before any reproduction use. The Anchorage Museum does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners. Preferred Citation: Hobart Hyatt Collection, Anchorage Museum, B2012.030 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Acquisition and Appraisal Information Brother Wayne Hyatt donated materials from Hobart Hyatt’s estate in June 2001, including several objects and artifacts. The collection of photographs and papers was found in the archives in 2012. The provenance of post-2000 items in the collection is unknown. Additional slides were located in the backlog in April 2013 and added as an addendum. Processing Notes Slides were arranged into film rolls and in chronological order to the extent possible. Publications and ephemera removed from binders. Colored photographic prints removed from frames. Slides of non-Alaskan subjects and poor quality slides deaccessioned at time of processing. Separated Materials Oversize plat map copies relocated to map cases. Objects transferred to Collections. RELATED MATERIALS 2001.021.001-013 E2001.003.001-005 SUBJECTS Hyatt, Hobart B., 1920-2000 Hyatt, Marion B., 1899-1988 United States. Bureau of Land Management Fur Rendezvous (Anchorage, Alaska) Alaska—Centennial celebrations, etc. Surveyors—Alaska Surveying—Alaska Real property—Alaska Glaciers—Alaska Mountains—Alaska Rivers—Alaska Outdoor recreation—Alaska Highways—Alaska Aircraft accidents—Alaska Stamp collecting—Alaska—Societies, etc. Alaska Earthquake, Alaska, 1964 Earthquakes—Alaska—Anchorage Anchorage (Alaska) Juneau (Alaska) Fairbanks (Alaska) Ketchikan (Alaska) Saxman (Alaska) Wrangell (Alaska) Kotzebue (Alaska) Nome (Alaska) Valdez (Alaska) Palmer (Alaska) Hope (Alaska) Kodiak (Alaska) Cordova (Alaska) McCarthy (Alaska) Seward (Alaska) Tyonek (Alaska) Sitka (Alaska) Port Lions (Alaska) Chicken (Alaska) Eagle (Alaska) Kenai Peninsula (Alaska) Bristol Bay Region (Alaska) Richardson Highway (Alaska) Glenn Highway (Alaska) Alaska Highway Ben-My-Chree (Yukon) Detailed Description of the Collection Series 1: Publications and ephemera B1/F1 [Publication and ephemera pertaining to Alaska Native antiquities, 1965] B1/F2 Historic Stuff [title of original binder] - Cadastral survey: insuring the domestic tranquility / by John S. Zink [no date] - Geodetic surveys in the United States: the beginning and the next one hundred years, 1807- 1940 / John F. Dracup [printed 1998] - Geodetic surveying, 1940-1990 / Joseph F. Dracup [printed 1998] B1/F3 Example Field Notes [title on original binder] - Bureau of Land Management Cadastral Survey Training Program: typical field notes and classified excerpts. 1973 B1/F4 Riparian Information [title on original binder; folder 1 of 3] - Alaska tideland surveys: “who, what, when, where, how, why”: a paper presented at the 37th Annual Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference / by Gerald Jennings and Joe Kemmerer. February 2002 - Inland water boundaries: an all-day course presented at the 2002 Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, Feb. 12, 2002 / James A. Simpson - Memorandum to State Director, Alaska State Office, Bureau of Land Management from Deputy Regional Solicitor, Alaska Region re crustal deformation and uplift, Boswell Bay, Alaska. May 9, 1994 - [Correspondence] To Ann Johnson from Frank A. Hardt, Cadastral Survey re riparian change proposal. January 18, 2001 - [Email] To Francis Cherry [et alii] from Mike C. Brown re Ninth Circuit Court decides Kukpowruk River case. May 24, 2000 - Memorandum to DSD, Cadastral Survey, Alaska from Frank A. Hardt, Land Surveyor re NPR-A boundary, Colville River. December 28, 1993 - [Memorandum] From Gary Marciniak, Land Surveyor re history of the North Slope project, October 1, 1993 - Memorandum to all employees from DSD, Cadastral Survey re criteria for determining meander lines on braided streams in Alaska. May 10, 1993 - Instruction memorandum no. 91-125 to State Directors from Director re special surveys- water boundaries, December 6, 1990 - Instruction memorandum no. AK91-9 to DMs, DSDs, SCs from State Director, Alaska re Native corporations’ requests to segregate interim conveyed lands beneath navigable waters, November 1, 1990 - Instruction memorandum no. AK90-249 to DMs, DSDs, SCs, and M-AFS from State Director, Alaska re establishing Native allotment boundaries along nonnavigable, nonmeanderable water bodies, July 23, 1990 - United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, State of Alaska plaintiff-appellee v. Ahtna, Inc. and Sta-Keh Corporation, defendants-appellants and United States of America, William Clark, Secretary of the Interior, Robert Pinfold, Alaska State Director, Bureau of Land Management, defendants-appellees. Filed December 13, 1989 - Memorandum to Robert Arndorfer from John M. Allen re meander boundaries and riparian rights, July 29, 1988 [2 copies] - Submerged lands in Alaska, P.L. 100-395. 1988 - Public Law 100-395. August 16, 1988 - Memorandum to Deputy Director for Conveyance Management, Bureau of Land Management, Alaska from Regional Solicitor, Alaska re riparian rights. July 6, 1984 B1/F5 Riparian Information [title on original binder; folder 2 of 3] - Memorandum to Wayne M. Gardner from C. Albert White re landslides and earthquake displacement of land survey monuments and land lines. January 20, 1998 - Memorandum from Deputy Commissioner, Division Directors, Special Assistants from Tom Hawkins for Rod Swope, Commissioner re department order #125 revision #3, policies and procedures on ownership and management of navigable and public waters. November 29, 1990 - Memory jogger for inland water boundaries: an all-day course presented at the 1996 Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference, Anchorage, Alaska February 5, 1996 / James A. Simpson - [Outline] Navigability and the owner perspective / by J.P. Tangen. April 16, 1993 - Gulkana River Revisited Outline. [nodate] - Who owns our waterways? Title navigability: the evolving law of title navigability and its impact on the public and private rights in the 1990s, Friday April 16, 1993, Anchorage, Alaska B1/F6 Riparian Information [title on original binder; folder 2 of 3] - [Materials from seminar “Who owns our waterways?” continued] [Oversize photocopies of plat maps removed to map case] - U.S. Survey no. 4489, Alaska, townsite of Pilot Station, tracts “A” “B” & “C” in five sheets. 1971 [sheets 1-2 only] - Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act […] Pilot Station Incorporated at Pilot Station, Alaska. 1997 [sheets 1 and 4 of 4] - Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act […]
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