Records of the Alaska Division.

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Records of the Alaska Division.

The records from both Offices include letters received, 1883-1907, and sent, 1877-1908; correspondence files, 1908-35, with a separate file relating to the Metlakahtla Controversy, 1897-1931; budget and accounting records; reports and statistical records, including some periodic school reports, 1933-40; a reference file of the Assistant Chief of the Division, 1888-1926; newspaper clippings, 1897-1908; photographic negatives and prints, 1894-1932; and a file on Alaskan school matters, 1886-89.

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