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The Digital Archives Partnership is a collaboration between LitSite Alaska and the Alaska's Digital Archives. Alaska's Digital Archives present a wealth of historical photographs,
albums, oral histories, moving images, maps, documents, physical
objects, and other materials from libraries, museums and archives
throughout our state. Alaska's LitSite provides
narrative content that supports the digital images along with links
for more information on the subject and a list of books and visual
materials available in libraries throughout Alaska.
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Alaska is a place of wild extremes, whether it be climate, geography, seismic activity, or oceanography.
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Alaskans commonly share the belief that they're a different breed, perhaps more resilient, more adventurous than other Americans.
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Gold-rush boomtowns, ancient Native villages, railroad camps, and timber towns are threads in the tapestry of life in the North.
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The wealth of natural resources was an initial attraction for outside interests seeking riches of gold, copper, salmon, and oil in the Far North.
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By European standards, Alaska is still a babe, its history of non-Native settlement spanning only a few centuries, and its largest city less than ten decades old.
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