Fredericka Martin Collection

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Fredericka Martin Collection

1890-1969

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309465890

The Fredericka Martin Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, research files, and manuscripts focusing on Martin's interests in the Pribilof Islands and the welfare of the islands' Aleut residents; the evacuation of the Aleuts from the Pribilof Islands to Southeast Alaska during World War II; the work, life, and genealogy of linguist and translator Richard H. Geoghegan; Spanish exploration of the Northwest Coast and the coast of Alaska; and Russian America. The collection includes Martin's personal journal and photograph albums of time spent in the Pribilofs in the early 1940s, and Martin's translations of Spanish documents pertaining to northern exploration in the 1770s-1790s.

20.30 cubic feet

spa, Latn

eng, Latn

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7293933

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Martin, Fredericka Imogene, 1905-1992

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Fredericka (Freddie) Imogene Martin (1905-1992) was a writer, historian, and nurse who served as a chief nurse and medical administrator during the Spanish Civil War. Martin was born in Cooperstown, New York on June 2, 1905. Her father died in an accident before her birth and when she was five her mother remarried. They moved to Oneonta, New York where Martin -- a spirited child by her own account -- grew up in a warm and indulgent family. Following high school, she lived and worked with the St....

Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930

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Illustrator. From the description of Henry Wood Elliott drawings, [ca 1871]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122403874 ...

Geoghegan, Richard Henry, 1866-1943

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Linguist. From the description of Alaska language translations, translations of Russian works, vocabulary studies of Alaska Native languages, with related correspondence, 1903-1937. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 42928932 Richard Henry Geoghegan (1866-1943), of Irish descent, was born in Birkenhead, England. Extraordinarily gifted at mastering foreign languages, he studied Chinese at Oxford and, in his spare time, attained facility in a number of other tongues f...