Kathleen Lopp Smith Family Papers, 1807-2003.

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Kathleen Lopp Smith Family Papers, 1807-2003.

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The Kathleen Lopp Smith Family Papers consist of more than 1300 photographs reflecting the life and work of William T. "Tom" Lopp, educator and proponent of reindeer herding in Alaska, and his wife Ellen L. Kittredge Lopp, educator and mother. Subjects of the photographs include family members; life in Wales, Alaska; reindeer and reindeer herding in many parts of Alaska, including the Yukon and Kuskokwim drainages and Atka; schools and school children throughout Alaska; and the Inuit of Baffin Land. Because the collection merges several accessions, there are multiple prints of a number of the images. The collection also includes the research files of author Kathleen Lopp Smith, granddaughter of W. T. and Ellen Lopp; various clippings concerning the Lopps as Alaskan missionary-teachers and W. T. Lopp's subsequent career; a large amount of Kittredge family correspondence; some of W. T. Lopp's correspondence, particularly with his wife and children; five original journal/memorandum books kept by W. T. and Ellen Lopp;three original journals kept by Charles T. Kittredge, brother of Ellen Lopp, while a teacher in Alaska; and three original Alaska notebooks, transcribed notes and diaries, and some of the published writings of Frances W. Kittredge, sister of Ellen Lopp.

8.75 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7293667

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Thornton, Harrison Robertson, 1858-1893

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Thornton family

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Lopp, William Thomas, 1864-1939

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Born June 21, 1864, William Thomas Lopp was known to the native whalers and fishermen of Alaska as the "Reindeer Man." A teacher from the midwest, his career in the Arctic north as an educator, an expert in reindeer husbandry, and an explorer spanned 37 years. Lopp began his Alaskan work as a missionary teacher at Cape Prince of Wales on the Bering Strait in 1890. Two years later he became superintendent of the reindeer station at Teller. He educated himself about Eskimo life and during these ye...

United States. Bureau of Education. Alaska Division

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Lopp, Ellen Louise Kittredge, 1868-1947

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Smith, Kathleen Lopp

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William T. "Tom" Lopp (1864-1939) and Harrison R. Thornton arrived in Wales, Alaska, in 1890 to open a U.S. government school. Ellen L. Kittredge (1868-1947) arrived in Wales in 1892 as an assistant teacher, and soon thereafter married Lopp. The Lopps' life among the Inupiaq Eskimos of Wales (1892-1902) is documented through Ellen Lopp's letters, published in the book Ice Window (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001) by granddaughter Kathleen Lopp Smith. The Lopps' time in Wales coincided...

Lopp family

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