Carpenter, John; Jennie Alexander; Clara Cook Lawrence; Unalaska City School (Alaska)
Home on the Bering: The Jesse Lee Home at Unalaska: 1911-1915 (Cuttlefish, 3); Based on the Scrapbooks of Clara Cook Lawrence ; with Stories and Articles by Abuk (James Alexander) [and Others] ; Supplemented with Recent Accounts by John Carpenter [and Others] ; Arranged, Edited, Annotated, and Illustrated As Cuttlefish Three by Students of the Unalaska City School 1978-1979.
Unalaska, Alaska, Unalaska City School, 1979. First printing. Card Covers. pp. 148. 4to. measuring 28 cm. Black and white illustrations, maps, photographs. Illustrated red stiff card covers. A unique school yearbook arranged by the students of Unalaska City School and rich with stories and photographs of staff and students, with many of the local Indigenous (Eskimo/Inuit) students at work, study and play. From the introduction: "Cuttlefish Three, presents an account of the Jesse Lee Home at Unalaska during the early years of this Century. The Home was a Methodist mission that became famed for the quality of its students -- Dr. P. Gordon Gould, Mr. Simeon Oliver, Mr. Benny Bensen, to name a few. Although the Home was first opened in 1890 and operated continuously until its move to Seward in 1924, 'Home on the Bering' concentrates on the years 1911 to 1915. These are the years covered by the bulk of our material, the scrapbooks compiled by Clara Cook." Neat ink inscription to the verso of the title page by a former student recalling her own memories while attending the venerable school else no detectable flaws with contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine. OCLC #: 12152169. At time of cataloguing this title does not appear amongst the holdings at Peel, BAC/LAC. .
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Keywords: aboriginal studies; yearbook; local history; american history; inuit; first nations; indigenous peoples; native studies; indian studies;