Microfilm of Sheldon Jackson photograph collection
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot R81-13
name: label: Creator
content: Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Alaskan Eskimo
place: label: Place
content: Alaska
topic: label: Topic
content: Presbyterian Church
creator: label: Creator
content: Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimos
label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Alaskan Eskimo
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Sheldon Jackson (1834-1909) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary and a United States government official. He graduated from Union College in New York (1855) and completed a program in theological studies at Princeton (1858).  After graduation, he worked at a school for Choctaw boys in what is now Spencer, Oklahoma. He then moved to Minnesota to work as a pastor (1859-1869), stopping briefly to serve as a chaplain in the Civil War.  In 1869, he became superintendent for the Board of Home Missions for Iowa, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, and Utah.  In 1870 his superintendency included almost all of the American West. 

Jackson first visited Alaska in 1877, and in 1884 the federal government appointed him the territory's first superintendent of public instruction. In 1885 he joined the Bureau of Education as a general agent for education in Alaska.  In this position, he worked to increase access to education and establish schools.  He also introduced domesticated reindeer to Alaska in 1892 in order to alleviate undernourishment in the Alaska native population. In 1897, Jackson was elected moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, the highest honor of that denomination.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1877-1907
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: In 1980, Anne F. Morgan, Assistant Illustration Researcher for the Handbook of North American Indians, obtained the microfilm from Mary Plummer at the Presbyterian Historical Society. Transferred to the National Anthropological Archives.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.R81-13
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Originals located in Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Circa 500 photographs documenting Sheldon Jackson's work in the Presbyterian Church and among Alaskan natives, including images of towns, buildings, scenery, and Alaskan natives. The collection includes commercial prints and photographs probably made by Jackson.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Presbyterian Historical Society holds the Sheldon Jackson papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs relating to Jackson's project to import reindeer for Alaskans held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 130.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Department of Anthropology collections holds artifacts collected by Sheldon Jackson in Alaska and elsewhere.