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Ketchikan History

Reference | Circulating Books | Videos | Newspapers

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Reference Books

The 1920 federal population census for the Ketchikan recorder's district, First Judicial District of the Territory of Alaska. REFERENCE
317.982 UNITED
Alaska people index    by Bradbury, Connie. REFERENCE
920.0798 BRADBUR
A guide to the Pathfinder, a monthly journal of the pioneers of Alaska 1919-1926    Tillotson, Marjorie REFERENCE
979.804 TILLOTS
The Ketchikan factbook    Research Design Productions REFERENCE
917.982 KETCHIK
Pioneers from early days of the Ketchikan District    Bufvers, John. RARE BOOK: ASK AT DESK 979.82 BUFVERS

Circulating Books

Alaska's salmon hatcheries, 1891-1959    Roppel, Patricia. 639.3 ROP
Alaska's southern panhandle   Alaska Geographic Society 917.982 ALASKAS
Atlas of the Ketchikan region : a basis for planning    Martinson, Charles. OVERSIZE BOOK SHELF 917.982 MARTINS
Dolly's house, no. 24 Creek Street    Allen, June 979.8 ALLEN
Fortunes from the earth : an history of the base and industrial minerals of Southeast Alaska    Roppel, Patricia 622.09798 ROPPEL
Goodbye Goose : the story of Ellis Air Lines    Sherman, Faith 387.709 SHE
Handloggers,    Jackson, William H., 979.8204 JACKSON
Historic downtown Ketchikan : a restoration handbook    Campbell, Douglas M. 979.82 CAMPBEL
An historical guide to Revillagigedo and Gravina Islands, Alaska    Roppel, Patricia 979.82 ROPPEL
History of mines and prospects, Ketchikan District, prior to 1952   Bufvers, John. 622 BUFVERS
Holy Name Catholic Church : a history of the Parish of the Holy Name in Ketchikan from 1904 to 2002    Beck, Mary Giraudo 282.7982 BECK
Ketchikan, a city historic properties survey : volume II, history & preservation 979.82 KETCHIK
Ketchikan, Alaska's totemland    Balcom, Mary Gilmore 979.82 BALCOM
Ketchikan Pulp Company : our first 20 years    Ketchikan Pulp Company 676.0979 KETCHIK
Land of mists : Revillagigedo and Gravina Islands, Misty Fiords National Monument, Alaska    Roppel, Patricia 979.82 ROPPEL
Nine lives of an Alaska bush pilot    Eichner, Ken 629.13092 EICHNER
Our town : discover Ketchikan    Historic Ketchikan, Inc., 979.82 OURTOWN
Pioneer nursing in Ketchikan, Alaska    Diaz, Clara N. 610.7309 DIAZ
Southeast Alaska : a pictorial history    Roppel, Patricia. 979.82 ROPPEL
Southeast Alaska : early photographs of the great land    Wilson, Graham 979.8203 WILSON
Spirit! : historic Ketchikan, Alaska Allen, June. 979.82 SPIRIT 
The Story of Ketchikan, gateway to Alaska Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce Airport Dedication Committee, c1973 917.982 STORY O
Teaching a government school in Alaska in 1901 by Bertha Hunt Wells. 979.82 WELLS
Totem Bight Historical Site, Ketchikan Alaska 970.004972 TOTEM B
The way it was in coastal Alaska, 1920-1978 : we call it living   Wick, Ivan 979.8092 WICK
What ... no landing field?    Ellis, R. E. 629.13 ELLIS
"Where can I buy one of these?" : a history of Ketchikan, Alaska's business community    Roppel, Patricia. 979.82 ROPPEL
Workboats of the Ketchikan region, 1895-1939    Charles, Doug. 623.8202 CHARLES

Videos

The children of the southeast wind 970.004972 CHILDRE
Ketchikan on the Inside Passage 917.982 KETCHIK
Ketchikan Pulp Company, Pulping Division, 1954-1997 676 KETCHIK
Rain Country - various episodes 917.982 RAIN CO
The salmon capital of the world 639.2756 SALMON

Newspapers

The Ketchikan Public Library has back issues of all the Ketchikan papers available on microfilm. Please ask at the front desk for assistance.

The Alaskan (Sitka) Nov. 1885-Aug. 1907
The Mining Journal 1901-1907
Ketchikan Daily Miner 1906-1907
Ketchikan Miner Jan. 1907-Sept. 1915
Daily Miner Nov. 1907-Sept. 1914
Morning Mail Sept. 1913-Nov. 1913
Saturday Mail Aug. 1914-Jan. 1915
Daily Progressive Miner Sept. 1915–Feb. 1919
Alaska Pioneer July 1918-Feb. 1919
Ketchikan Times May 1919-June 1919
Ketchikan Weekly Journal July 1919-April 1920
Ketchikan Alaska Chronicle July 1919-June 1955
Ketchikan Daily News March 1922-June 1923
First City News Nov. 1925-July 1926
Ketchikan Tribune 1930-1931
Ketchikan Sunday Chronicle Jan. 1933-May 1937
Alaska Fishing News Aug. 1934-Aug. 1947
Ketchikan Daily News Ketchikan Daily News
New Alaskan June 1965-May 1992
Southeast Log Jan. 1972-Dec. 1989

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