Glenn G. Healas photograph collection, 1920s.

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Glenn G. Healas photograph collection, 1920s.

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The Glenn G. Healas Photograph Collection consists of two photograph albums and loose photographs, totaling 329 images, as well as publications and newsclippings. The photographs include a wide variety of Alaskan subjects such as sternwheelers and other ships, Alaskan fauna, dog teams including teams used for mail delivery, Alaska Native people and their material culture and means of transportation, village scenes, aircraft, fox farming, and various other related subjects. The photographs were taken in Nome, Anvik, and other southcentral, southeastern, and interior Alaska areas. Also included in the collection are publications and newsclippings relating to the fur sealing industry and an obituary for Calvin Townsend.

.5 cubic feet.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7293510

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a bureau within the Department of the Interior. Its mission is to work with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. A 1940 reorganization plan in the Department of the Interior consolidated the Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of Biological Survey into one agency to be known as the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife was created...

Healas, Glenn G., (Glenn George), -1992.

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Glenn G. Healas was the son-in-law of Calvin Townsend. Townsend came to Alaska in 1904 and worked for the government beginning in 1913. He was a game warden and then was transfered to the Bureau of Fisheries. His district included the entire Yukon and Kuskokwim. Glenn Healas and his wife, Emily Townsend Healas, spend summers aboard a U.S. Fisheries boat, working with Townsend. From the description of Glenn G. Healas photograph collection, 1920s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 3094389...

Healas, Emily L. Townsend, -1988.

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Townsend, Calvin, -1881

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