Museum and Archive Collections Research

Sitka National Historical Park cares for more than 246,000 museum collection items. Tlingit ethnographic items, Russian American archeological and historical items, historical photos, archives, and herbarium specimens are found in the collection. Highlights of the collection include totem poles, Chilkat weaving, Tlingit oral history recordings, 19th century Russian furniture, Russian Orthodox icons and vestments, and over 1,100 original glass plate negatives by Sitka photographer E.W. Merrill.
For more information about access to collection items or for high resolution photographs, please contact the park's museum curator at [phone] [e-mail]

 

Museum and Archive Collections

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  E.W. Merrill Photographs

  The park's museum collection includes 1,167 photographs by early 20th century photographer E.W. Merrill.

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  Sitka National Monument Record

  This archival collection contains approximately 20 linear feet of documents, photographs, and audio recordings

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  The Doris Borhauer Collection

  The collection is comprised of 92 spruce root baskets created by Tlingit and Haida weavers from Southeast Alaska