Free Lecture Spotlights First Tourists' Adventures In The Great Land
In 1890, Septima M. Collis urged her fellow countrywomen to postpone Paris, London, Rome and Vienna in favor of a trip to Alaska in a book she wrote titled A Woman's Trip to Alaska. Collis is one of a number of Alaska's first tourists who, enchanted by the state's grandeur, penned detailed memoirs of her travels. The exhibition, "Traveling In the Great Land," which continues through Sept. 19, showcases those chronicles and those of other adventurers who boldly traveled to Alaska before tourism became one of the state's leading industries. Among them is a section of the carefully preserved scrapbook of Mildred Day, who traveled to Alaska board the S.S. Northwestern in 1941 and kept daily itineraries and photographs chronicling her journey through the Northwest Passage. These personal travelogues, and others like them, capture Alaska's early days through the eyes of vacationers.
Free Lecture, July 21 at 7 p.m.
The Anchorage Museum of History and Art's Archives is the repository for over 400,000 historical photographs. Learn more about the Archives and the new "Traveling in the Great Land" atrium exhibit with Kathleen Hertel, director of the Museum's Archives and Library on Wednesday, July 21 from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Museum Auditorium. For more information, call 343-4326.