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Happy Summer Solstice! ☀️⛱😎Time to break out the shades, hop on your bike, head to the nearest lake, and enjoy the longest day of the year! ... 📷: From an advertisement for Kraft Dry Goods in the June 7, 1963 issue of the Kodiak Daily Mirror, surrounded by stock photos of red- yellow- and blue-and-white striped beach umbrellas on a beach, text reads: “Fashions for Summer Living: Knit Tops from $2.98 & up to wear with Capri’s, Pedal Pushers, Slimdiggers, Bermudas, Short shorts; Select yours from our big collection.” Around the text are black and white illustrations of a woman leaning against the S in “Summer Living”, 3 folded striped knit tops, and a woman wearing a sun hat with a striped shirt and Capri pants standing with her hands on her hips with a bicycle in the background. ... #MidnightSun #Alaska #KodiakAlaska #LandOfTheMidnightSun #Vacation #Lake #VintageAd #VintageFashion #HistoricNewspapers #Microfilm #DigitalArchive #NDNP #SummerSolstice #Sun #Beach #Pool #BeachUmbrella #AlaskasDigitalNewspapers #📰 #🗞 #⛱ #😎 #☀

What camping trip is complete without some tunes to blast? June is both Camping Month and the Great Outdoors Month, and to celebrate, here’s a fun advertisement for Victrola record players. ... 📷: From the June 20, 1918 issue of the Cordova Daily Times, against a stock photo of a dandelion field, is a black and white illustration of 5 people in camping attire gathered around a Victrola and a trunk with text that reads: “Take a Victrola on your camping trip; A Victrola is looked upon as a regular part of a camping outfit nowadays. It is always sure of a rousing welcome. Its delightful music is one of the real joys of camp life. Whether you are going camping or not, come in and get acquainted with the Victrola. We’ll gladly play any music you wish to hear. Victrolas $15 to $250. Victors $10 to $100. Terms to suit your convenience. Northern Drug Co. Cordova.” ... #Victrola #Camping #GreatOutdoors #CordovaAlaska #NDNP #HistoricNewspapers #DigitalArchives #ChroniclingAmerica #VintageAdvertisements #Ad #1918 #AlaskaHistoricalNewspapers #Microfilm #Digitization #HisMastersVoice #📰 #🗞

Greetings from Anchorage and the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center! Anchorage is home to a great many moose, which don’t live in Juneau. Swipe for some moose-related stories from Alaska’s Historic Newspapers! ... 📷: Unnamed moose lying in grass at the AWCC. ... 📷: Feeding time for Tok the moose at the AWCC. ... 📷: Collage featuring a black and white photo of a bull moose in the distance with text that reads: “Moose on Kenai Peninsula, Seward, Alaska, ‘The Gateway’ to this Big Game Paradise.—Photo by ‘Sylvia’, Seward, Alaska- Courtesy J. Casey McDaniel.” from the Oct 22, 1921 issue of the Seward Gateway; Left article from the March 28, 1922 issue of the Cordova Daily Times; Right article from the Feb 27, 1922 issue of the Cordova Daily Times. (Alternate text added to the photos.) ... #Moose #GirdwoodAlaska #PortageAlaska #AnchorageAlaska #AlaskaWildlifeConservationCenter #AWCC #NDNP #ChroniclingAmerica #HistoricNewspapers #📰 #🗞

Today marks World Otter Day, and otters have a special place in Alaska history. Sea otters have the thickest fur of any mammal, and were a mainstay of the fur industry during the Russian Occupation. Yet this high demand nearly led to their extinction by the 1850s, and was one reason behind the sale of the Territory of Alaska to the United States. In the 1960s, in an attempt to replenish their numbers, 400 sea otters were brought to Southeast Alaska from the Aleutian Islands which boosted the population. Oil-covered sea otters were a symbol of the environmental impact of the Exxon Valdez oil spill which killed thousands of otters, but today, their population in Alaska remains relatively stable. ... 📷: On top of a stock photo of a sea otter pelt, and on top of an illustration of a sea otter from Captain James A. Cook’s “A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean”, an article from the June 24, 1911 Daily Alaskan reads: “Peculiarity of Sea Otter Fur. ‘This collar,’ said a furrier, ‘is sea otter skin, the costliest fur known. Silver fox, beside sea otter is cheap. Where you would pay $1,000 for a silver fox skin you’d pay $2,000 for a sea otter. It is only the Russians, the world’s greatest fur lovers, who go in for this most precious of all furs. They use it exclusively for coat collars. Why? For a strange reason, an almost incredible reason. Sea otter is the only fur on which the breath won’t freeze.’” ... #WorldOtterDay #SeaOtters #Otters #FurTrade #AlaskaPurchase #AlaskaHistory #NDNP #ChroniclingAmerica #NewspaperDigitization #HistoricNewspapers #DigitalArchives #Microfilm #Digitization #AlaskaStateLibraryHistoricalCollections #CaptainCook #VintageIllustration #Conservation #📰 #🗞

“….And now our watch has ended.” 🐉🐺⚔️ ... Swipe for a collection of news items about swords, dragons, and ravens from the May 2, 1913 issue of the Daily Alaskan, the September 20, 1913 issue of the Valdez Daily Prospector, and the March 27, 1922 issue of the Cordova Daily Times. (Alt text has been added to each image.) ... #GameOfThrones #Finale #Dragons #Swords #Ravens #NDNP #ChoniclingAmerica #DireWolves #ThreeEyedRaven #MotherOfDragons #GOT #SkagwayAlaska #ValdezAlaska #CordovaAlaska #HBO #Digitization #Microfilm #DigitalArchives #📰 #🗞 #🐉 #🐺 #⚔️ #HistoricNewspapers

May 17 is Endangered Species Day: a chance to reflect on its polar bear mascot, and a potential link between the Alaska State Library Historical Collections and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. In Alaska, polar bears are listed as a “threatened” species, rather than “endangered”; a recent count numbered 3,000 Alaskan polar bears at in the Chukchi Sea near northwest Alaska, but the current figures on the planet’s rising temperatures don’t bode well for the long-term survival of these polar bears. In Alaska’s historic newspapers, articles about arctic expeditions to hunt polar bears are prevalent. One such article points to a hunting expedition for the purpose of adding to the mammal exhibit at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum, where there are two adult bears and one polar bear cub on display. It is unclear whether the adult bears are the same bear in the photograph. Any thoughts on the polar bear provenance, @carnegiemnh ? ... 📷: From the 5/17/1911 Douglas Island News over a stock photo of polar bear fur, text reads: “In search of adventure, big game and natural history specimens, an expedition will leave this city May 25 in the power boat Polar Bear, bound for Arctic wilds, says a Seattle paper. The expedition is headed by L.L. Lane, son of an Alaskan millionaire, himself a mining man and a sportsman, and Capt. F.E. Kleinschmidt, a big-game hunter and well-known writer on outdoor subjects. Several other sportsmen will accompany the expedition. The purpose of the expedition is ambitious. It will collect specimens, preserve in photography and moving picture films the records of Alaskan industries, native life and wild life. Its members will hunt the polar bear and Capt. Lane has hopes of bringing back several live specimens. Specimens will be secured for the Carnegie museum.” ... 📷: Black and white photo of an unnamed man standing over a dead polar bear with text beneath that reads: “Kleinschmidt—Arctic” from the Alaska State Library Historical Collections ... 📷: Color photograph of one of the stuffed polar bears at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. ... #EndangeredSpeciesDay #PolarBears #AlaskaHistoricNewspapers #DigitalArchives #ChroniclingAmerica

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