Tag Archives: Pratt Museum

Sugpiaq Catalog Workshop

As part of the Lower Kenai Peninsula Material Culture and Heritage Preservation project, generously funded by Museums Alaska, we had a busy few days at the Pratt Museum. We had Alma Moonin from Nanwalek completing training on general museum collection … Continue reading

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“As promised” photos from the Pratt Museum

This week I am posting two photos I promised a few weeks back to various people interested in the history of the lower Kenai Sugpiaq region. The first photo is the one I mentioned on Facebook’s Sugpiat message board last week … Continue reading

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News form The Frontiersman – 1947

This week, a gentleman donated a series of issues of The Frontiersman, a biweekly newspaper published in Seldovia. The collection covers several issues of the paper mainly from the year 1947. Savanna Bradley, the Collection Manager of the Pratt Museum, … Continue reading

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Old Church History, Passage Island Fox Farm, and News from the Past

Here are three photographs from the Pratt Museum’s collection connected to John Herbert and Passage Island. I have mentioned him in a post a few years ago, when I was working with the Alaska Commercial Company (ACC) collection in at … Continue reading

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