Sheldon Jackson Papers

Sheldon Jackson (1834-1909) was a Presbyterian missionary and pioneer in Alaska. He founded churches and missions throughout the West from Minnesota to Alaska and was named U.S. General Agent for Education in Alaska in 1885. The Sheldon Jackson Papers, 1855-1909, document Jackson’s work for the Board of National Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., in the West until 1877 and then in Alaska, and his personal mission to make the Presbyterian Church and U.S. government aware of conditions in Alaska. A finding aid is available at: http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-239
Correspondence Relating to Pioneer Presbyterian Missions (1856-1908) – Vol. 16: Alaska, Riendeer, Home Missions, Woman’s Executive Committee of Home Missions (1891-1893)
Correspondence Relating to Pioneer Presbyterian Missions (1856-1908) – Vol. 12: Idaho, Utah, Alaska, Nevada, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, Washington, Woman’s Executive Committee of Home Missions (1882)
Education in Alaska
Photographs of men in Alaska.
Reports Concerning the Introduction of the Reindeer into Alaska – “Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska” (1906)
Creator: Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
Photographs of ships in Alaska.
Reports Concerning the Introduction of the Reindeer into Alaska – “Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska” (1900)
Creator: Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
Sheldon Jackson Papers, Series I: Correspondence, March 1886-April 1886
Creator: Jackson, Sheldon
Cruise of the Cutter Bear, Vol. 1, 1894.
Sheldon Jackson Papers, Series I: Correspondence, July 1878
Creator: Jackson, Sheldon
Sheldon Jackson Papers, Series I: Correspondence, Jan. 1882
Creator: Jackson, Sheldon
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