Erastus Brainerd papers, 1868-1898.
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 2,000 items; 14 itemsSubject(s): - Seattle Chamber of Commerce
- Gold mines and mining -- Alaska
- Gold mines and mining -- Washington
- Gold mines and mining -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley
- Alaska -- Commerce
- Alaska -- Description and travel
- Alaska -- History
- Seattle (Wash.) -- Commerce
- Seattle (Wash.) -- History
- Washington (State) -- Description and travel
- Washington (State) -- History -- 1889-
- Washington Territory -- History
- Yukon -- Description and travel
- Yukon -- History
- Sitka times
- Originally cataloged in 01015712; transferred to MSS Division 09/05/1962. LC classification number: F931.B81. Main entry: Brainerd, Erastus, comp. Title: Alaska and the Klondyke. Correspondence.
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Fourteen volumes containing a collection of correspondence, steamship schedules, flyers, maps, and newspaper advertisments and columns, compiled by Brainerd while secretary of the Chamber of Commerce Information Bureau, Seattle, Wash. Papers relate primarily to the promotion of Seattle's role in Alaskan trade and in the gold rush of 1897, including materials on Alaska, the Klondike, mining equipment and supplies available in Seattle, and routes to mining areas north of Seattle. Includes a copy of the first issue of a handwritten newspaper, The Sitka times, 19 Sept. 1868.
Author, editor, publicist, and public official from Washington (State)
Collection material in English.
Originally cataloged in 01015712; transferred to MSS Division 09/05/1962. LC classification number: F931.B81. Main entry: Brainerd, Erastus, comp. Title: Alaska and the Klondyke. Correspondence.
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