Joseph S. Sterling papers, 1899-1937.

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Joseph S. Sterling papers, 1899-1937.

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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.

4.85 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7318534

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Sterling, Joseph

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Joseph Sterling Sterling (b. 1878), the son of Edward B. and Isabella Sterling, was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. In 1901 he came north to the Klondike, where he worked for the White Pass and Yukon Route, tried his hand at mining, and was employed as stenographer for Ames Mercantile. Over the winter of 1903-1904 he traded for furs with the Indians, and in the spring of 1904 went into business partnership with merchandise broker Peter Vachon in Dawson, Yukon. By 1905 Vachon and Sterling...