- Creator:
- Maltbie, Libbie
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1909]
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2171
- Image Count:
- 22
- Abstract:
- Scrapbook made by Libbie Maltbie following a vacation trip to Alaska in August, 1909. Maltbie and her husband, Arthur L. Maltbie, and two friends, Hiland P. and Mary Lockwood, travelled to Alaska on the steamship City of Seattle, leaving Seattle, Washington, on August 4, 1909, passing among the islands of southeastern Alaska to Skagway, and returning on the Pacific side, stopping at Sitka, and reaching Seattle on August 15. The scrapbook contains mostly postcards, printed illustrations, and photographs taken by Arthur L. Maltbie, showing towns visited, buildings, natural features, and Indian totem poles and other aspects of Indian life. Photographs, some with the travelers pictured, are captioned in holograph by Libbie Maltbie. Also present are a printed map showing steamship routes, published by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company; a few printed items relating to the City of Seattle; and a narrative written by Maltbie, holograph, 15 p., briefly describing the trip.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alaska--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- City of Seattle (Ship), Lockwood, Hiland P, Lockwood, Mary, Maltbie, Albert L.,--b. 1866, Maltbie, Libbie, and Pacific Coast Steamship Company
- Subject (Topic):
- Alaska--History--Pictorial works and Postcards--Alaska--History--20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alaska vacation scrapbook, [ca. 1909].
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- Creator:
- Hamm, Ralph C.
- Published / Created:
- 1968-1979
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 30
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | 1-16
- Image Count:
- 77
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and objects documenting the life and work of Ralph C. Hamm. The two letters from Hamm to his mother, Margaret E. Hamm, deal with Hamm's writing, publication of his work, and prison life, including race relations, at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole. There is also a memorandum from the Walpole facility. Writings include a typescript draft of a play and typescript drafts of poems from the collection Dear Stranger/The Wayfarer.
- Description:
- Purchased from Waiting for Godot Books on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund, 2004. and Ralph C. Hamm, III, poet.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States--Race relations and Walpole (Mass.)
- Subject (Name):
- Hamm, Margaret E., Hamm, Ralph C., and Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole
- Subject (Topic):
- African American authors--20th century--Archives, American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Prisoners' writings, American, Prisons and race relations--United States, and Prisons--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ralph C. Hamm collection