Location on shelf: CS 29, B6
ICKES COLLE
CTION. Photos. 2 cu. ft. 1938.
B75.175. Inventory.

Harold LeClair Ickes was the Secretary of the Interior between 1933 and 1946, under Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s administration. Ickes was born March 15, 1874 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Ickes
Ickes was also the director of the Public Works Administration and was a dedicated
conservationist and strong supporter of civil rights. In 1938, Harold Ickes, along with
photographer Ray B. Dame, toured Alaska to inspect the Reindeer Project and to see other
federal government works.

The Ickes Collection consists of photographs, negatives and contact prints. This collection
includes approximately 686 images and several hundred negatives. The photographs cover Ickes
trip to Alaska in 1938. The subjects including Alaska Native villages of the Norton Sound and
Panhandle, including Golovin, Teller, and Metlakatla, Mount McKinley National Park (present
day Denali National Park), Nome, Fairbanks, Juneau, the Alaska Railroad and towns along the
railbelt, the Matanuska Valley, and the Richardson Highway. The collection also consists of a set
of contact prints and descriptions of the photographs, along with a list of captions for all
photographs.

This collection was donated to the Anchorage Museum by the BLM in 1975.

Com
pleted by JD; 2/06/2009

Location on shelf: CS 29, B6
Completed by JD; 2/06/2009

ICKES COLLECTION. Photos. 2 cu. ft. 1938.
B75.175. Inventory.


INVENTORY

BOX 1

Series 1:
Photographs
Folder 1
B75.175.1 – 175


BOX 2

Folder 1
B75.175.176 – 350


BOX 3

Folder 1
B75.175.351 – 550


BOX 4

Folder 1
B75.175.551 – 686

BOX 5

Folder 1
Contact prints for collection (7824 – 8461)

Series 2
: Photocopies

Photograph descriptions
Captions for photographs