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Alaska Commercial Company Records
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Languages:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Alaska Commercial Company Records
Creator:
Alaska Commercial Company
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0234
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
(1 archives box)
Date (inclusive): 1895 - 1897
Abstract: A small collection of business correspondence and records from the Alaska Commercial Company, a San Francisco trading firm
concerned with the Alaskan fur trade in the late 19th century.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains a small body of business correspondence and records, including 34 letters written from early March
to 12 October 1897 between agents Otto W. Carlson at Unga, R. T. Lying and James M. Wilson at St. Michael, and company representatives
N. Gray and Rudolph Neumann at Unalaska. The letters contain orders for merchandise, accounts of fur pelts shipped, and general
account information. Also included are 28 business documents, such as invoices, advice of drafts lists, inventories, and supply
arrivals related to the Apollo Consolidated Mining Company.
Alaska Commercial Company was a San Francisco firm which purchased the assets of the Russian-American Co. in 1867. The company
supported the Alaskan fur trade by providing steamship transportation, general merchandising, and other commercial and financial
services. The company had offices at Unalaska on Unalaska Island, at Unga on Unga Island, and at St. Michael on the west coast
of Alaska in the Norton Sound.
Digital copies of this material are intended to support research, teaching, and private study. This work may be used without
prior permission. The original manuscripts for this collection are held by Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Alaska Commercial Company Records, MSS 234. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
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This collection has been digitized.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959 -- Sources
Neumann, Rudolph
Wilson, James M.
Gray, N.
Lying, R. T.
Carlson, Otto W.