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Alaska Historical Commission - Office of History and Archaeology

Alaska History Timeline

Camera Workers: British Columbia, Alaska & Yukon 1858-1950

Documents photographers in British Columbia and the Alaska and Yukon territories. Useful in old photo identification.

Eric A. Hegg Photographs

Historic photographs after the 1900 gold rush.

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Alaska

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

HistoryLink.org- the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History

This database contains photographs, newspaper clippings, documents, contemporary Seattle business names and locations, vessel sailing dates and passenger lists related to the 1897-1898 Klondike Gold Rush, which Seattle served as a major gateway for supplies and prospectors. Also includes materials about individuals from this period. Prepared and maintained by the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Seattle.

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park - Avalanche Victims - Palm Sunday Avalanche

On April 3, 1898, a massive avalanche buried the small settlement of Sheep Camp, Alaska. This lists names of victims found in various sources.

McCarthy and the Ghost town of the Kennecott Copper Mine

The History of Anchorage, Alaska

Valdez Gold Rush Centennial