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Sterling, Joseph S. Joseph S. Sterling papers, 1899-1937.

Title: Joseph S. Sterling papers, 1899-1937.

The Joseph S. Sterling Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, business records, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera. They document Sterling's activities in the Yukon and Interior Alaska in the years 1901-1915, as well as his later fur farming enterprises in the state of New York. Many of the photographs depict Ruby, Flat, and Iditarod, Alaska, and vicinity in the years 1911-1912. Also found in the collection are photographs of Sterling's Alaska Silver Fox and Fur Farms Company in Fairbanks, Alaska (1914-1915), and a number of publicity photos for that company's establishments in Lake Placid, Plattsburg, and Ausable Chasm, New York (1915-1930s). The collection includes a small number of business papers for the Alaska Silver Fox and Fur Farms Company and for Vachon and Sterling, a mercantile and fur trading enterprise active in Interior Alaska in the early 1900s. The scrapbooks, compiled by Joseph Sterling's father, Edward B. Sterling, contain newsclippings, letters, photographs, and ephemera relating to Joseph's activities and the North. Also notable in the collection is a map of the Alaska and Klondike gold fields issued in Braille by the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind, Overbrook, Pennsylvania, in 1912.

ArchivalResource: 4.85 cu. ft.

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