School in Rural Alaska

School children gather to celebrate a birthday, from the Butler-Dale Collection

The Schools in Rural Alaska Exhibit is a collections of 20 photographs selected from the following collections

The Butler-Dale Collection (PCA 306)

George Dale and Evelyn Butler, educators working for the Alaska Native Service, documented Native cultural activities and rural village life in Alaska from ca.1934-1950

Records of Alaska Schools (MS 146)

A survey of rural Alaska schools completed by local school personnel between 1931 and 1951

Above: Gulkana Territorial School 1946, Alex Sinyou’s birthday. ASL-MS146-03-17C

This exhibition is the culmination of a collaboration between the Historical Collection and the Friends of the Alaska State Museum and will be on display at the new Friends of the Alaska State Museum Store, located at 124 Seward Street in Downtown Juneau.

The Exhibition opened January 5th and will remain until March 23 of 2007. The store hours are 11:30am to 6:30pm, Tuesdays through Saturdays.

You are welcome to view these and other collections in the Alaska Historical Collection,

State Office Building, 8th floor
Hours: 10am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday,or by appointment.

Many images are also digitized. Please visit our online photograph collections in Alaska’s Digital Archives

Thumbnails of Entire Exhibit


Andrew Roberts helps build	Aleut school girls in clothing class	Eskimo school boy drilling ivory	First time school. Fishhook

Hooper Bay school shop	Point Hope school room	USIO School - Valdez	Wainwright school office

White Mountain School	Alex Sinyou's Birthday	Fortuna Ledge class portrait	Galena School class portrait

Healy - End of School Picnic	Homer Heights Territorial	Katalla Territorial School	Larsen's Bay

Palmer. Girl and school bus	Pupils and school exhibit	School at Ft. Yukon	Tee Harbor