Sitka Historical Society & Museum

Missed our Annual Meeting and Tlingit Code-Talker Presentation by Vince Winter? No Problem! We recorded it for you! Check it out below!!

Tlingit Code Talker Presentation - Vince Winter - 10/16/2024 - Sitka Historical Society & Museum Tlingit Code Talker Presentation - Vince Winter - 10/16/2024 - Sitka Historical Society & Museum Annual Meeting www.sitkahistory.org

Don't forget to join us this evening at 6:30 in Centennial Hall for our Tlingit Code Talker presentation. Don't worry if you aren't able to make it, we will be streaming on Zoom at the link below and there will be a recording posted later.

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The Sitka Historical Society & Museum would like to wish everyone a Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

BBQ brisket & pork butt BBQ'ers! Enter the SHS & M's annual cook-off. Society buys brisket and/or pork butt. Win cash prizes and awards. All contestants receive 2 free tickets to Brew Cruise! Call Hal at (907)738-3766 to enter!

2012.174.2
Date: 1942
Black and white photograph of Dick and Margie Lynne swinging on a swingset at the Government School playground.

From Our Vault: Sitka Treasures on Canvas, Art Exhibit and Wine Tasting, March 8, 2024

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04.22.653
Date: Pre1926
Black and white photograph of sawmill at outfall of Swan Lake Creek showing piles of lumber in foreground, mill buildings mid-image and Sitka Sound to south in distance.

02.01.04
Sepia toned portrait photograph of a man and woman. The original catalog record suggests this is a possible wedding picture of George and Natalia (Kashevaroff) Kostrometinoff. The man is seated on the viewer's left in a chair with fringe on the seat. He wears a dark suit coat and pants. The woman is standing on the viewer's right. She is wearing a long Victorian-era dress. Her right hand rests on the chair.

PH10089
Date: 1898
Black and white photograph of Tlingit natives standing before the Woosh-Kee-Nah, the host house of the 1904 potlatch in Sitka.

04.22.1
Black and white photo. View Sheldon Jackson school from Lincoln Street. Tractor widening road. Tlingit Presbyterian Church, Sheldon Jackson Museum, Fraser Hall all visible. Large group of people gathered on lawn and road.

PH6747
Date: Early 1900s
Black and white mounted photograph of Julia Haley in her shop, The Old Russian Trading Post Curios Store.There are tools, baskets, trunks, baleen and other items displayed on the floor and walls.

PH10086
Date: 1904
Black and white photograph of Augustus Bean and his wife dressed for a potlatch. A Chilkat blanket hangs behind them.

A small black and white photo of a boat being constructed. Based on the other photos in this collection it is possible that this is a photo of "Arrowhead" under construction. "Arrowhead" was the name of one the shore boats that ran between Japonski Island and Baranof Island until the O'Connell Bridge was completed in 1972.

Faded sepia-tone mounted black and we photo of a bridge, trees and mountain in background.
Printed in bottom margin: 12. Lower Bridge, Indian River Park. EDWARD DE GROFF SITKA, ALASKA