Artifacts:
- photos of the Copper River & Northwestern Railway and its $23 million construction from 1907-1911
- copper mining, processing, and weighing tools
- tram buckets and mining equipment
- photos of the mines, Kennecott mill town, and their construction
- first aid, safety, and power equipment used by miners and mill workers
- personal effects of miners and mill workers
- timecards, switch list, and other business documents from Kennecott and McCarthy
- Kennecott Hospital relics and photos
- photos and artifacts about life in McCarthy; Fourth of July paraphernalia
- cooking appliances, utensils and artifacts from homes in McCarthy and Kennecott
- women’s clothing, china, and sewing machines
- McCarthy Golden Saloon cash register
- panoramic landscape photos by J.P. Hubrick
- “McCarthy Solstice” mural quilt crafted by Maria Shell and including community member quilt squares (2013)
Papers:
- Bertha Ramer Book (former teacher at Kennecott)
- bush pilot Harold Gilliam of Gilliam Airways
- Margaret Keenan Harris (abolitionist, suffragist, McCarthy teacher)
- Dora Keen (early 20th century mountain climber and adventurer, first to summit Mt. Blackburn in 1912)
- James McCarthy, namesake of the town
- Ocha Potter (first white woman to float the Copper River and first to make the trip on the CR&NW Railway)
- information on the bush pilots of the Wrangells
- various other diaries, journals, letters, and business correspondence of historic residents
Documents & Records:
- historic news from The Chitina Leader, Katalia Herald, McCarthy Weekly, and Our Town, from 1908 on
- Wrangell St. Elias News archive
- National Geographic Magazine 1924-1928
- historic editions of Alaska Geographic and Alaska Sportsman magazines
- Kate Kennedy arrest records
- historic and current maps
Books (alphabetical by author last name):
- 1973 Report of the Wrangell Mountain Project
- Report of an Expedition to the Copper, Tanana, and Koyukak Rivers in the Territory of Alaska: A Reprint of Lt. Henry Allen’s 1885 Journal (2005)
- Picture Journeys in Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias, America’s Largest National Park by George Herben (1997)
- The Copper Spike by Lone E. Janson (1975)
- Mudhole Smith: Alaska Flier by Lone Janson (1981)
- Kennecott Kids: Interviews with the Children of Kennecott, Vols. 1 and 2
- Historic McCarthy by M.J. Kirchoff
- Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier by Tom Kizzia (2013)
- Mining in Alaska’s Past, Alaska Division of Parks Office of History and Archeaeology Publication 27 (1980)
- National Park Service Alaska Park Science books
- Iron Rails to Alaskan Copper: The Epic Triumph of Erastus Corning Hawkins by Alfred O. Quinn (1995)
- Tunnel Vision: The Life of a Copper Prospector in the Nizina River Country by Katherine Ringsmuth (2012)
- A Death Decoded: Robert Kennicott and the Alaska Telegraph by Sandra Spatz Schlactmeyer (2010)
- Alaska Expedition: Marine Life Solidarity by James P. Sweeney (2011)
- The List by James P. Sweeney (2010)
- Alaska’s First Homegrown Millionaire: Life and Times of Cap Lathrop by Elizabeth A. Tower (2006)
- Alaska’s Homegrown Governor: A Biography of William A. Egan by Elizabeth A. Tower (2003)
- Big Mike Henry, Irish Prince of the Iron Trails: Builder of the White Pass and Yukon and Copper River Northwestern Railways, by Elizabeth A. Tower, 2003
- Ghosts of Kennecott: The Story of Stephen A. Birch by Elizabeth A. Tower (2003)
- Icebound Empire: Industry and Politics on the Last Frontier, 1898-1938 by Elizabeth A. Tower (1996)
- The Alaska Gold Rush by David B. Wharton (1972)
- dozens of other books
Do you have any photos or documentation about the Verle Copper mine near Kennicott? My great grandfather staked a copper mine claim in the upper Gilahena River, about 20 miles west of what became the Kennecott Mine.
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I am not familiar with the Verle mine and have never seen it mentioned in any of our documents. Do you have any more info about it? I am familiar with the Gilahena River, but have never heard of mining in that direction.
John the winter answer person
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