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: resourcecenter@anchoragemuseum.org

Guide prepared by: Sara Piasecki, Photo Archivist

TITLE: Alyce E. Anderson Photographs

COLLECTION NUMBER: B1990.003

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Dates: circa 1900-1938

Extent: 24 items, .01 linear feet

Language and Scripts: The collection is in English.

Name of creator(s): Alyce E. Anderson, Ilene E. Adams (1910-2010), John Edward Thwaites
(1863-1940), Tom Odale, B. King

Administrative/Biographical History:
Alyce E. Anderson was the first territorial schoolteacher in Ninilchik, Alaska. Juanita
Anderson, daughter of Alyce, was the first territorial schoolteacher in Seldovia.

Scope and Content Description:
The collection consists of 24 copy black-and-white prints of photographs of Alyce and Juanita
Anderson, Adam Bloch, Father Paul Shadura, the villages of Ninilchik and Seldovia, and
several ships.

Arrangement:
Not applicable

CONDITIONS GOVERNING ACCESS AND USE

Restrictions on Access: The collection is open for research use. No reproductions.

Physical Access: Original items in good condition.


Technical Access: No special equipment is needed to access the materials.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use:
Permission for use of photographs taken by Alyce E. Anderson must be obtained from the
estate of Theodore Anderson. Photographs taken by other photographers subject to copyright.

Preferred Citation:
Alyce E. Anderson Photographs; Anchorage Museum, B1990.003


ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Acquisition and Appraisal Information
Donated by son Theodore Anderson on Jan. 24, 1990.

RELATED MATERIALS


SUBJECTS
Anderson, Alyce E.
Anderson, Juanita, fl. 1914
Bloch, Adam
Shadura, Paul
Manning (Ship)
Farallon (Ship)
Starr (Ship)
Ninilchik (Alaska)
Seldovia (Alaska)
Seward (Alaska)
Anchorage Bay (Alaska)

Detailed Description of the Collection

B1/F1
1 — Alyce E. Anderson, first territorial school teacher, Ninilchik, 1911. Was well acquainted with Sidney Laurence in early 1990s [portrait photograph]
2 — Ninilchik about 1918 [view of village and Cook Inlet from hill behind village; mountains in distance]
3 — Ninilchik Territorial School on the hill, also Russian church & cemetery, Alyce E. Anderson’s store etc., Alyce E. Anderson’s residence Nov 1911 to 1913, Warner’s cabin [view of village from Cook Inlet]
4 — Alyce E. Anderson in front of first school house in Ninilchik. She was first territorial school teacher in Ninilchik [woman holding cat, snow on ground]
5 — This is a picture of Juanita Anderson, daughter of Alyce E. Anderson. Juanita was first territorial school teacher in Seldovia, 1914 [woman watering garden plants with pitcher]
6 — Ilene Adams Ninilchik School 1936-38. This school was built under the direction of Alyce E. Anderson, first territorial school teacher in Ninilchik, 1912. [wooden building with bell tower, large pole next to school]
7 — Alyce E. Anderson living quarter, Nov. 1912 [several wooden buildings, with hills behind]
 8 — U.S.R.C. Manning, Seward, Resurrection Bay, Alaska. The main refugee boat at Kodiak Island during the eruption of Katmi [sic] Volcano. June 1912, L.H.P.
 9 — S.S. Farallon 4 weeks after wreck of Jan. 5, 1910, Cooks Inlet, Alaska. Copyright 1910 by J.E. Thwaites. [ship covered with heavy ice]
10 — P.V. Valdez [and] Swan (TMO’s boat purchased from Bill Murphy), 1909 or 1910 at Fire Island, Tom Odale pix. PV (Ellickson), Valdez (McCarthy brought it in). First gasoline boats on Cook Inlet [three motor launches, with crews on decks]
 11 — The “Valdez” boat, Anchorage Bay 1908(?), taken by Tom Odale [boat on beach, crew on shore and on deck]
 12 — S.S. Starr in Seldovia. S.S. Starr, a steamer used in the 1920s to carry freight and mail to the towns and fish canneries of Alaska’s Prince William Sound. Photo by B. King. [copy of original photographic postcard]
 13 — Dora. S.S. Dora was the ship that served southwestern Alaska for the first few years after the turn of the century [copy of original photographic postcard]
 14 — Seldovia, Alaska, Thwaites [copy of original photographic postcard, view of steamship and small launch in water, with village and mountains in distance]
 15 — Seldovia, 1912, Lookout Point [view of buildings, shore, trees, possibly from boat deck]
 16 — Seldovia 1909 [view of wooden buildings along shoreline from point above village]
 17 — Seldovia general store, 1909 [view of wooden building, men walking on beach, men getting into small boat, snow-covered mountains in distance]
 18 — Gasboat bidarka was early vessel that carried freight and passengers on Cook Inlet prior to 1917 [motor launch towing dinghy, low rise of land in distance]
 19 — Seldovia before 1909 [view of wooden buildings, boats on beach, water]
20 — Seldovia 1910(?) High tide, lived in first house on right [view of water reaching to boardwalk, wooden buildings, man standing on boardwalk]
 21 — Seldovia 4 ft boardwalk with school in background, before 1930 [snow on boardwalk, rooftops]
 22 — Juanita’s pupils Seldovia school 1914/15 [group standing outside school building]
 23 — Adam Bloch, Seldovia before 1909 [man in uniform standing in doorway]
 24 — Father Paul Shadura, Russian priest in Kenai [man in church robes standing on porch outside of building]