A new photo album donated to the collection provides us with a remarkable look at Lutak Inlet in 1917.  Over 200 sharp, clear images of families, workers, housing, and the operation at the Alaska-Pacific Salmon Cannery, located roughly near the site of the former Schnabel Lumber Co.

Support from the Museum Alaska Collections Management Fund is allowing HSM to rehouse and catalog early images and archives that relate to Haines (Chilkat) Mission and Haines House (period: 1880’s – 1960).  Haines Mission stood on the current site of the museum.  Haines House, located on the site of today’s Presbyterian Church, was operated as a boarding facility principally for Alaska Native youth, many of whom were orphans or wards of the Alaska Territory.  Colorado-based collections management expert, Peggy Schaller will be in Haines for three weeks in May for this engagement.