Exhibits and Collection

Pribilof Exhibit

Exhibits and Collection

The Alaska Native Heritage Center showcases a new exhibit from June 2009 - May 2010.

The center is currently hosting the NOAA Pribilof Islands Historical Photographs Exhibit.  The Pribilof Islands fur-seal industry has had a direct impact on the economic, social, and environmental history of Russia, the United States, and Native Alaskans and its history is recorded in photographs and other archival documents.  Images from the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Pribilof Islands Photographs taken in the 1910s and 1920s will be exhibited at the Alaska Native Heritage Center.  These previously unavailable images that come from the original glass plates (cataloged, digitized, and preserved by NOS archival activities) will become accessible to the Unangax (Aleut) people whose history they document, as well as the greater public through this project. The project partners include two Pribilof Islands village corporations and the National Archives and Records Administration.

    

 Opening Reception- August 12, 2009 from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.  Theater

Guest Speaker Bruce Parham is Director, National Archives and Records Administration—Pacific Alaska Region (Anchorage).  Mr. Parham became Director in 2006.  From 1990 to 2006, he served as Assistant Director/Senior Archivist.  Prior to coming to Anchorage, he was an appraisal archivist at the National Personnel Records Center (St. Louis, MO).  Prior to joining the National Archives in 1989, Mr. Parham worked as an archivist in Arkansas, Colorado, California, Missouri, and Alaska.  In 2002-2004, he was president of the Alaska Historical Society.  He has also served on the boards of the Alaska Historical Society and the Society of Northwest Archivists.