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1. 1 Pam 2006 June 16 at 8:46 pm

   If looking for more info on Moravian Church in our area, start with some of these references here (the history book of the Alaskan Moravian Church is no longer in print.)
   Small Business in Western Alaska -
   http://tinyurl.com/o8h97

2. 2 Pam 2006 July 5 at 9:46 pm

   A reader has led me to the UAA archive collection of Elaine Schwinge–

   “Historical Manuscripts Collection List » O to SO Collection List »

   ELAINE A. SCHWINGE. Journals; 1946-1950, 1996. .2 cu. ft.

   Elaine Schwinge, M.D., served as a field physician for the Alaska Territorial Department of Health under health commissioner C. Earl Albrecht from 1946 to 1950. She served on the Mobile Health Unit, the ship M.S. Hygiene, the BCG (tuberculosis vaccine) Program, and the Alaska Native Service Hospital in Bethel. Schwinge received her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan in 1948. She later worked in psychiatry for the United States Public Health Service, the National Institute for Mental Health, and the state of Pennsylvania. Elaine Schwinge lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania

   The collection consists of a copy of Dr. Elaine Schwinge’s journals from her service in the Alaska Territorial Department of Health from 1946 to 1950. The journals are divided by year and include diary and journal entries, narrative reports, correspondence, articles, stories, photographs, and other selected documents. The journals also include tables of contents and time lines. Also included in the collection is an expanded version of her journals from 1996, which has typed versions of the journal entries and documents, and a corresponding CD-R computer disc. The archives also holds the papers of Dr. C. Earl Albrecht.

   The collection was presented to the archives by Margery Albrecht in 1999. The expanded version of the journals was presented to the archives by Elaine Schwinge in 2005.

   HMC-0484
   JAS (3/2005)

   http://tinyurl.com/gdr4d

3. 3 Pam 2006 August 26 at 6:43 pm

   The oral history projects at the University of Alaska Fairbanks http://uaf-db.uaf.edu/Jukebox/PJWeb/pjhome.htm Project Jukebox
   contain materials referring to 1918,
   http://tinyurl.com/o9kly

4. 4 mpb 2006 November 5 at 8:21 pm

   Here is a set of stories, similar to the Firefox books, put together by schoolchildren in our region. I don’t remember if influenza is included.

   Cama-I Book: Kayaks, Dogsleds, Bear Hunting, Bush Pilots, Smoked Fish, Mukluks and Other Traditions of Southwestern Alaska (Paperback)
   by Ann Vick (editor)
   Student writings on personalities, heritage, and lifestyles in their varied Alaskan communities.
   * Paperback: 411 pages
   * Publisher: Anchor Books; 1st ed edition (February 1983)
   * Language: English
   * ISBN: 0385152124
   # Hardcover
   # Publisher: Doubleday (1983)
   # ASIN: B000JWHQU6

5. 5 mpb 2006 November 5 at 10:07 pm

   Circumpolar Curiculum Collection: Arctic Educational Resources Index
   Compiled by Ann Vick-Westgate
   Digitized by Jonathan Markowitz and Jim Forrest, Peabody Essex Museum, 2004

   http://www.echospace.org/features.html

6. 6 Pam 2007 February 17 at 3:52 pm

   from crofsblogs, http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2007/02/a_disturbing_ec.html

   The Letters of Margaret Butcher: Missionary-Imperialism on the North Pacific Coast (Paperback), by Mary-Ellen Kelm (Editor)
   # Paperback: 273 pages
   # Publisher: University of Calgary Press (April 2005)
   # Language: English
   # ISBN-10: 1552381668
   # ISBN-13: 978-1552381663

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