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Maine Women Writers Collection
Abplanalp LibraryUniversity of New England716 Stevens AvenuePortland, Maine [email protected]: http://www.une.edu/mwwc
Lael Morgan papers, 1936-2017
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on October 23, 2018.Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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Table of Contents
Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3
Biographical/Historical Note ......................................................................................................................... 3
Collection Scope and Content ....................................................................................................................... 4
Arrangement ................................................................................................................................................... 5
Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 5
Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 6
Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 7
Publications .................................................................................................................................................. 7
Journalism notebooks ................................................................................................................................ 10
Photographs ............................................................................................................................................... 11
Travel logs ................................................................................................................................................. 17
Scrapbooks ................................................................................................................................................. 18
Manuscripts ................................................................................................................................................ 18
Correspondence .......................................................................................................................................... 19
Memorabilia ............................................................................................................................................... 23
Media ......................................................................................................................................................... 25
Montana research ....................................................................................................................................... 26
Tonga research ........................................................................................................................................... 28
Texas research ........................................................................................................................................... 29
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Summary Information
Repository: Maine Women Writers Collection
Creator: Morgan, Lael
Title: Lael Morgan papers
ID: 0239
Date [inclusive]: 1936-2017
Physical Description: 13.50 linear feet 31 boxes
Language of theMaterial:
English
Preferred Citation
Lael Morgan papers, Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England, Portland,Maine
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Biographical/Historical Note
Lael Warren Morgan was born in Rockland, Maine, in 1936, and began her education in a two-roomschoolhouse in East Vassalboro. She majored in drama at Emerson College before transferring in1957 to Boston University School of Public Relations and Communications, and supported herselfby working as a hotel night clerk. She graduated cum laude in the summer of 1959 and traveled withher husband, Dodge Morgan, to Anchorage, Alaska, where she worked for an advertising agency. In1963, the Morgans sailed halfway around the world in a 36’ schooner. On their return in 1965, LaelMorgan moved back to Alaska while her husband pursued work on the east coast. They divorced in1971. Morgan started her journalistic career as a writer for the Malden Press in 1958. Later she became aphotojournalist at the Juneau Alaska Empire in Alaska’s capitol city, and then covered crime and politicsfor the Fairbanks News Miner. In 1969, she signed on as a reporter/photographer for the Los AngelesTimes where, in 1970, she won the Photographer of the Year award for best photo feature. The awardof an Alicia Patterson fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation grant in 1972 helped her to establish anational reputation reporting on Native Americans. Morgan subsequently embarked on a freelance careerworking for publications such as the Washington Post, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, andNational Geographic Magazine. From 1974 to 1987, she served as roving reporter and photographer forAlaska Northwest Publishing and was assigned to visit every Alaska village named in the Alaska Native
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Land Claims Settlement. Of the 220 that qualified, she visited all but 13. In 1988, Morgan receivedher master’s degree from Boston University with a focus on publishing. Then, with business partnerKent Sturgis, she established Epicenter Press in 1988, a regional house that was to become the majorpublisher of Alaska titles. That same year, she joined the Department of Journalism and Broadcastingat the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she taught writing, photography, and multimedia. In 1999,after serving three years as department chair and winning a Fulbright to Fiji, Morgan returned to Maineto become managing editor of the Casco Bay Weekly. In January of 2000 she advanced to publisher andcontinued in that capacity until the paper was sold in 2003. From September of 2003 until the summerof 2005, Morgan was a visiting professor in the Department of Communications at the University ofTexas at Arlington. Morgan remains acquisitions editor for Epicenter Press and occasionally utilizesher California private detective’s license, which she has held since 1981. Morgan is the author of 16published books on an eclectic array of subjects. In the 1970s, Doubleday published three of her books:And the Land Provides: Transition of Alaska Natives from a Subsistence to a Money Economy; Tatting,A New Look at the Old Art of Lace Making; and Women's Guide to Boating and Cooking. Her bookGood Time Girls of the Alaska Yukon Gold Rush, which in 1998 placed seventh on the Los AngelesTimes best nonfiction list, won her the distinction of being named Alaska Historian of the Year. Hermost recent works are Eskimo Star: From Tundra to Tinseltown: The Ray Mala Story, and Wanton West:Madams, Money, Murder and the Wild Women of Montana’s Frontier. Both were published in 2011.
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Collection Scope and Content
Contained in the Lael Morgan papers are: newspaper clippings; photographs, including a large numberof slides and transparencies; manuscripts; scrapbooks; travel logs; correspondence; media; andmemorabilia. Series I. Clippings 1954-2011, includes clippings of articles by and about Morgan, manywith photos by Morgan; clippings of articles of interest collected for her by Morgan’s parents; newspapereditions published or overseen by Morgan; clippings concerning friends, colleagues and family; SeriesII. Journalism notebooks, c. 1967-1987, consists of 69 spiral bound reporter’s/stenographer’s notebookscontaining notes on life and culture in the Alaskan native villages and Alaskan cities Morgan visited;Series III. Photographs 1936-2011, the most extensive series in the collection, contains a very largenumber of Morgan’s images created in her travels, in the form of black & white and color prints,snapshots, 35 mm slides, transparencies and negatives; Series IV. Travel logs 1959-1985, contains spiral-bound and clipped loose-leaf logs, both typed and handwritten, chronicling Morgan’s travels. Series V.Scrapbooks 1952-1999, consists of two large format bound scrapbooks with paper pages, and a three-ring binder with sheet protectors and loose pages; Series VI. Manuscripts 1944-1997, is composed ofone pocket-sized three-ring binder, various typescripts and one early stapled onion skin chapbook; SeriesVII. Correspondence 1955-2017, contains handwritten and typewritten letters, greeting cards, postcards,and email printouts; Series VIII. Memorabilia 1953-2011, contains objects, certificates, invitations andprograms, and international documents; Series IX. Media 1986-2012, contains VHS tapes, one CD,one cassette tape, one floppy disc and one hard drive; Series X. Montana research 1996-2012, containsarticles and correspondence, as well as chapter drafts; Series XI. Tonga research 1998-2009, contains
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research on Tonga, Shirley Baker and family, as well as a draft of the Ray Wise Mala manuscript; SeriesXII. Texas research 2003-2010, contains research on a variety of Texas historical characters and topics.
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Arrangement
This collection is organized into the following twelve series. The first nine are organized by materialtype, and arranged chronologically within each. The last three are in the original order, including foldernames, that Lael Morgan gifted to the MWWC: I. Publications 1954-2011; II. Journalism Notebookscirca 1967-1987; III. Photographs 1936-2011; IV. Travel logs 1959-1985; V. Scrapbooks 1952-1999;VI. Manuscripts 1944-1997; VII. Correspondence 1942-2017; VIII. Memorabilia 1953-2011; IX. Media1986-2012; X. Montana Research 1996-2012; XI. Tonga Research 1998-2009, undated ; XII. TexasResearch 2003-2010, undated.
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement
Maine Women Writers Collection
Abplanalp LibraryUniversity of New England716 Stevens AvenuePortland, Maine [email protected]: http://www.une.edu/mwwc
Revision DescriptionMWWC expanded the papers to included three additional series gifted to us by Lael Morgan regardingher research. 2017
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Publication Rights
For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Curator of the Maine Women WritersCollection.
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Controlled Access Headings
• Floppy disks• Sailing• Travel• Alaska Natives• Indians of North America -- Maine• Inupiat• Athapascan Indians• Saco (Me.)• Saint George (Me.)• Alaska• Puerto Rico• Borneo• Bering Sea• Aleutian Islands (Alaska)• Alaska Highway• Audiocassettes• Clippings• Photographs• Correspondence• Manuscripts• Scrapbooks• Memorabilia• Notebooks• Greeting cards• Postcards• Obituaries• Typescripts• Slides• Negatives• Transparencies• Video recordings• Alaska geographic• Alaska Magazine• Anchorage daily news
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• Anchorage daily times• Fairbanks daily news-miner• Casco Bay weekly• Jessen's Weekly• Los Angeles Times• National geographic• Texas• Tonga• Montana• Morgan, Lael• Morgan, Lael• Alicia Patterson Fund• World Eskimo Olympics
Collection Inventory
Publications, 1954-2010
Scope and Contents
This series includes clippings of articles by and about Morgan, many with photos by Morgan, appearing in JuneauNew Empire, Fairbanks City Miner, Jessen's Times, Tundra Times, LA Times, New York Times, and otherpublications, as well as in the Alicia Patterson Fund newsletter, Alaska Journal, and Alaska Magazine; clippingscollected for Morgan by her parents, labeled “clippings on Maine Indians”; newspaper editions published oroverseen by Morgan; and clippings concerning friends, colleagues and family. Subjects include Cony High School,Emerson College, Boston University, marriage to Dodge Morgan, Alaska, Alaskan native villages, sailing, travel,California, Russia, Japan, Scandinavia, art, culture, Dodge Morgan, friends and Maine Native Americans. Issues ofNational Geographic 1973-1983; Alaska Geographic 1978-1982; and the Portland, Maine, paper Casco Bay Weeklyduring Morgan’s tenure as editor (June 1999-December 2002) have been removed to the Periodicals collection andcataloged.
Title/Description Instances
Clippings by and about LM--various publications, 1950s Box 1 Folder 001
"The Drippy-Nose Dope" camp newsletter by LM and friend,mid-1950s
Box 1 Folder 002
Clippings by LM--various publications, 1960s Box 1 Folder 003
Anchorage Daily Times clippings, 1960-1966 Box 1 Folder 004
Anchorage Daily News clippings, 1960-1967 Box 1 Folder 005
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner clippings, 1961-1966 Box 1 Folder 006
Clippings re: Coaster sailing trip, 1963-1964 Box 1 Folder 007
Anchorage earthquake clippings sent by LM from St. Thomas,USVI, 1964
Box 1 Folder 008
Juneau Alaska Empire clippings, 1966 Box 1 Folder 009
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Jessen's Weekly clippings, 1966 Box 1 Folder 010
Box 1 Folder 011Fairbanks Daily News-Miner clippings, 1967
Box 1 Folder 012
"The Water Logged" newsletter of Lathrop Hilton Hotel duringFairbanks flood, 1967
Box 1 Folder 013
Associated Press log, mentioning LM, 1968 Box 1 Folder 014
Box 1 Folder 015
Box 1 Folder 016
Box 1 Folder 017
Box 1 Folder 018
Jessen's Weekly issues edited by LM, some containing articles byLM, 1967
Box 1 Folder 019
Los Angeles Times clippings, 1969-1971 Box 2 Folder 020
Los Angeles Times clippings, 1971-1973 Box 2 Folder 021
Los Angeles Times clippings, 1973 Box 2 Folder 022
"Woman Power" in RF Illustrated (Rockefeller Foundation), 1973 Box 2 Folder 023
Clippings, various publications, 1971-1975 Box 2 Folder 024
Tundra Times and The Bremerton clippings, 1971-1975 Box 2 Folder 025
Alicia Patterson Fund newsletters by LM (issues 1-8), 1972 Box 2 Folder 026
Alicia Patterson Fund newsletters by LM (issues 9-17), 1972 Box 2 Folder 027
Anchorage Daily News clippings, 1972 Box 2 Folder 028
Alaska Journal article reprints, 1973-1979 Box 2 Folder 029
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner clippings, 1974 Box 2 Folder 030
The Anchorage Daily Times clippings, 1974-1978 Box 2 Folder 031
Alaska Magazine clippings, 1974, 1976 Box 2 Folder 032
Resume and indexes of publications--Alaska Magazine villageseries, Alaska Journal series, authored books, periodicals,1965-1998
Box 2 Folder 033
Clippings, various publications, 1976-1978 Box 2 Folder 034
Status reports--Alaska Natives and Alaska Corporations, 1977 Box 2 Folder 035
Los Angeles Times clippings, 1979 Box 2 Folder 036
Clippings, various publications, 1979 Box 2 Folder 037
Clippings, various publications, circa 1970s Box 2 Folder 038
Clippings, various publications, 1980 Box 3 Folder 039
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Box 3 Folder 040
Clippings, various publications, 1981-1985 Box 3 Folder 041
Anchorage Times clippings, 1983-1985 Box 3 Folder 042
Anchorage Daily News clippings, 1985-1987 Box 3 Folder 043
Magazines and newspapers published by LM at California StateNorthridge, 1987-1988
Box 3 Folder 044
Clippings, various publications, 1988-1996 Box 3 Folder 045
Heartland article and exhibit catalogue, U. AlaskaMuseum--"Miles and Miles: Honoring Black Veterans Who Builtthe ALCAN Highway", 1992
Box 3 Folder 046
Fairbanks Flood of '67 article in Heartland by LM, 1992 Box 3 Folder 047
Journal of Commerce, Alaska: "Fairbanks Publisher FindsSuccess", 1992
Box 3 Folder 048
"The Other Woman" in Heartland Magazine, Fairbanks, AK, 1998 Box 3 Folder 049
Chapter on LM in Faces of Alaska, book by Jean Lester, 2003 Box 3 Folder 050
Clippings, various publications, 2003-2005 Box 3 Folder 051
Article printout from adn.com (Alaska Daily News) listing LM'sbook among 67 best, 2006
Box 3 Folder 052
Alaska Historical Society publication, "Alaska Visionaries" withpaper by LM, 2008
Box 3 Folder 053
Dodge David Morgan obituary, Maine Sunday Telegram, 2010 Box 3 Folder 054
Clippings on Maine Indians (collected by LM's parents),1937-1975, undated
Box 4 Folder 055
Clippings on Maine Indians, 1974-1976 Box 4 Folder 056
Box 4 Folder 057
Box 4 Folder 058
Clippings on Maine Indians, 1977
Box 4 Folder 059
Box 4 Folder 060
Box 4 Folder 061
Clippings on Maine Indians, 1978
Box 4 Folder 062
Clippings on Maine Indians, 1979 Box 4 Folder 063
Clippings on Maine Indians, 1980 Box 4 Folder 064
Clippings on Maine Indians, 1981 Box 4 Folder 065
Clippings on Maine Indians, 1982-1983 Box 4 Folder 066
Clippings on Maine Indians, 1984 Box 4 Folder 067
Clippings on Maine Indians, 1985
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Box 4 Folder 068
Clippings on Maine Indians, 1986-1988 Box 4 Folder 069
Clippings on Maine Indians, 2000 Box 4 Folder 070
Alaska Magazine Village Series index, undated Box 4 Folder 071
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Journalism notebooks, circa 1967-1987, undated
Scope and Contents
This series contains 69 spiral-bound reporter’s/stenographer’s notebooks containing notes on life and culture inthe Alaskan native villages and Alaskan cities Morgan visited. From the information Morgan gathered in thesenotebooks she wrote articles for the Juneau New Empire, Fairbanks City Miner, Jessen's Times, Tundra Times, LATimes, New York Times, and Alaska Northwest Publishing (Alaska Geographic and Alaska Journal) and NationalGeographic magazine.
Title/Description Instances
Anchorage, Alaska Magazine, early 1970s Box 5 Folder 001
Juneau legislature, early 1970s Box 5 Folder 002
Land Claims Interiors (2 notebooks), 1972 Box 5 Folder 003
Chief Andrew Isaac, Tyonek, North Star, Eskimo Olympics,Warren Taylor (1 notebook), 1972
Box 5 Folder 004
Galena and Naknek, Alaska; Shannon Gallant (2), 1972-1975 Box 5 Folder 005
Bristol Bay, Jo Gordon, Ted Stevens, Dr. Robert Fortuine (2),1972, 1974
Box 5 Folder 006
Bristol Bay, Alaska (1), 1977 Box 5 Folder 007
Arctic Slope, Alaska (2), 1974 Box 5 Folder 008
NANA, 1974 Box 5 Folder 009
Southeastern Alaska (3), 1974-1976 Box 5 Folder 010
Southeastern Alaska (3), 1976-1978 Box 5 Folder 011
Aleutian Islands, Alaska (3), 1974, 1979 Box 5 Folder 012
Aleutian Islands, Alaska (3), 1982 Box 5 Folder 013
Aleutian Islands, Alaska (3), 1982, 1984 Box 5 Folder 014
Adak and Atka, Alaska (1), 1975 Box 5 Folder 015
Aleutians--Chenega Ejak, Alaska (1), 1975 Box 5 Folder 016
Coos Inlet, Alaska (1), 1975 Box 5 Folder 017
Sleetmute and Ahtna, Alaska (1), 1975 Box 5 Folder 018
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St. Lawrence Island, Alaska (2), 1975 Box 5 Folder 019
Yukon North Star, Alaska (1), 1975 Box 5 Folder 020
Bethel area, Alaska (3), 1975 Box 6 Folder 021
Bethel area, Alaska (2), 1975, 1978 Box 6 Folder 022
Alaska Magazine, Inupiat, circa 1976 Box 6 Folder 023
Fairbanks, Alaska (1), 1976 Box 6 Folder 024
Shetland, Alaska, 1976 Box 6 Folder 025
American Indians I, 1977 Box 6 Folder 026
Kodiak, Alaska, circa 1977 Box 6 Folder 028
Humor, circa 1977 Box 6 Folder 029
Iliamna and Barrow, Alaska, circa 1978 Box 6 Folder 030
Barrow, Alaska, 1978 Box 6 Folder 031
Whitehorse and Dawson, Alaska, 1978 Box 6 Folder 032
LA Times (2), circa 1979 Box 6 Folder 033
LA Times (2), circa 1979 Box 6 Folder 034
LA Times, circa 1979-1982 Box 6 Folder 035
Ron Gilmore, circa 1970s Box 6 Folder 036
Ford Foundation--Native affairs, 1980s Box 6 Folder 037
Akutan, Sand Point and Cold Bay, Alaska, 1980 Box 6 Folder 038
Pribilof Islands, Alaska, 1980 Box 6 Folder 039
Returning WWII vets, Adak, 1980 Box 6 Folder 040
Unalaska and Nikolski, Alaska, 1980 Box 6 Folder 041
Untitled (3), circa 1981-1986 Box 6 Folder 042
Bristol Bay, Alaska, 1985 Box 6 Folder 043
ANWP, circa 1985 Box 6 Folder 044
Art; Daly City earthquake; Coalinga, Alaska (3), circa 1985-1987 Box 6 Folder 045
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Photographs, 1936-2011, undated
Scope and Contents
The most extensive series in the collection, this contains a very large number of Morgan’s images created in hertravels, in the form of black & white and color prints, snapshots, 35 mm slides, transparencies and negatives.
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Subjects include Morgan’s youth; photojournalism in Alaska, the US, the Pacific and elsewhere; sailing; and herpersonal life.
Title/Description Instances
Early LM, family and friends, 1936-1955 Box 7 Folder 001
Dodge Morgan and family, 1956-1958 Box 7 Folder 002
Lael Morgan and family, 1956-1958 Box 7 Folder 003
Friends, 1956-1958 Box 7 Folder 004
Lael and Dodge Morgan wedding photo, 1958 Box 7 Folder 005
Massachusetts, 1958 Box 7 Folder 006
Trip with Dodge Morgan up ALCAN Highway, Alaska,1958-1959
Box 7 Folder 007
Box 7 Folder 008Various Alaska images, 1958-late 1960s, undated
Box 7 Folder 009
Graduation from Boston University, 1959 Box 7 Folder 010
Friends and family, 1959-1962 Box 7 Folder 011
Work-related, 1959-1968 Box 7 Folder 012
Photo story of Morgan's husky, Eric, and cat, 1959-1963 Box 7 Folder 013
Alaskan people, circa late 1950s-early 1960s Box 7 Folder 014
Lael and Dodge Morgan, 1959-1962 Box 7 Folder 015
Various interior and art photographs, circa 1960s Box 7 Folder 016
Mushing in Anchorage, 1960-1961 Box 7 Folder 017
Transparencies--Lael and Dodge, early Anchorage, 1960-1962 Box 7 Folder 018
LM DM sailing aboard the Coaster, 1963-1965 Box 7 Folder 019
Box 7 Folder 020
Box 7 Folder 021
Box 7 Folder 022
the Coaster trip, 1963-1965
Box 7 Folder 023
Transparencies--early Coaster, 1963-1964 Box 7 Folder 024
Transparencies--Nassau Coaster, 1963-1965 Box 7 Folder 025
Anchorage earthquake "sent I think by Ruth and CameronEdmondson", circa 1964
Box 7 Folder 026
Transparencies--Man of War, 1964 Box 7 Folder 027
Transparencies--Tenants Harbor, ME, 1964 Box 7 Folder 028
Transparencies--Puerto Rico, San Blas, 1964-1965 Box 7 Folder 029
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Transparencies--San Blas, 1965 Box 7 Folder 030
LM, family and friends, 1965-1966 Box 7 Folder 031
While at Juneau Empire, 1965-1966 Box 8 Folder 032
Rep. John Sackett and Tanana Chiefs, late 1960s Box 8 Folder 033
Fairbanks, AK flood, 1967 Box 8 Folder 034
Visit by Alaska Gov. Wally Hickel and oil men to North SlopeWilderness, 1967
Box 8 Folder 035
St. Petersburg, Russia, circa 1967 Box 8 Folder 036
Family and friends, 1967-1968 Box 8 Folder 037
Ted Stevens, Charles Lindbergh, 1967-1968 Box 8 Folder 038
While at LA Times, 1968-1971 Box 8 Folder 039
Famous people, 1960s Box 8 Folder 040
Eskimo images--Point Hope, Alaska, 1972 Box 8 Folder 041
Eskimo images--Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, circa 1972 Box 8 Folder 042
Atka, Yukon Southeastern Alaska, 1972 Box 8 Folder 043
Galena, Alaska, early 1970s Box 8 Folder 044
Dept. of Interior supply ship North Star, early 1970s Box 8 Folder 045
LM in Alaska, mid-1970s-1980s Box 8 Folder 046
Portraits of Alaskans, mid-1970s Box 8 Folder 047
Drumming and Kotzebue Museum, mid-1970s Box 8 Folder 048
Family and friends, 1974-1975 Box 8 Folder 049
Swearing in, Fish and Game Board, 1975 Box 8 Folder 050
Box 8 Folder 051Eskimo Olympics, circa 1976
Box 8 Folder 052
Basketry and masks, circa 1976 Box 8 Folder 053
Friends and family, 1976-1979 Box 8 Folder 054
Photos of LM, 1976-1979 Box 8 Folder 055
in Wild West costumes, late 1970s Box 8 Folder 056
with Dr. Bryan Barber in Las Vegas, late 1970s Box 8 Folder 057
LM, family and friends, 1980-1987 Box 8 Folder 058
Hazel Warren's funeral, circa late 1980s Box 8 Folder 059
Photos of LM, 1988-1999 Box 8 Folder 060
Family, 1988-1999
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Box 8 Folder 061
LM and friends, 1988-1999 Box 8 Folder 062
LM flying with Peter Knowles; visiting Peter Knowles, 1989,1999
Box 8 Folder 063
Book signing for Good Time Girls in Dawson City, AK, 1998 Box 8 Folder 064
Holiday photographs, 2000-2002 Box 8 Folder 065
Trip with brother Lee Warren to southern Utah--Goblin Valley,2003
Box 8 Folder 066
Trip with brother Lee Warren to southern Utah--Arches, 2003 Box 8 Folder 067
Trip with brother Lee Warren to southern Utah--Red Canyon andKodachrome Basin, 2003
Box 8 Folder 068
Trip with brother Lee Warren to southern Utah--Bryce Canyon,2003
Box 8 Folder 069
Friends and family, 2004-2011 Box 8 Folder 070
Negatives--early Coaster, 1963 Box 9 Folder 071
Negatives--early Coaster, off Boothbay, ME, and southern US, fall1963
Box 9 Folder 072
Negatives--Coaster trip in Venezuela, Columbia, Panama,1963-1965
Box 9 Folder 073
Negatives--Coaster trip in Curacao, Grenada and Aruba,1963-1965
Box 9 Folder 074
Negatives--Coaster trip in Trinidad, 1963-1965 Box 9 Folder 075
Negatives--Coaster in color, circa 1963-1965 Box 9 Folder 076
Negatives--Coaster trip in the Bahamas and the DominicanRepublic, 1963-1965
Box 9 Folder 077
Negatives--Coaster trip in Nevis, Bequia, Domenica, 1963-1965 Box 9 Folder 078
Negatives-Coaster trip in Puerto Rico, 1963-1965 Box 9 Folder 079
Negatives--Coaster trip in The Saints, St. Vincent, St. Lucia,1963-1965
Box 9 Folder 080
Negatives--Coaster trip in St. Bart's and Antigua, 1963-1965 Box 9 Folder 081
Negatives--Coaster trip in Alaska, 1963-1965 Box 9 Folder 082
Negatives--Coaster trip in the Pacific, 1963-1965 Box 9 Folder 083
Negatives--Coaster trip in St. Thomas, 1964 Box 9 Folder 084
Slides--Gold Rush Girls, 1890s/circa 1998 Box 9 Folder 085
Slides--Good Time Girls research, 1898-1930s Box 9 Folder 086
Slides--Howard Rock slide show, 1918-1997 Box 9 Folder 087
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Box 9 Folder 088
Slides--voyage of the Coaster, 1963-1965 Box 9 Folder 089
Slides--personal, 1973-1992, undated Box 9 Folder 090
Box 10 Folder 091
Box 10 Folder 092
Slides--Inupiat-Alaska Native Peoples, 1960-1997
Box 10 Folder 093
Slides--Tlingit Haida people, Alaska, 1966-1990, undated Box 10 Folder 094
Slides--Native art, Alaska, 1971-1992, undated Box 10 Folder 095
Slides--Athabascan people, Alaska, 1972-1990, undated Box 10 Folder 096
Box 10 Folder 097
Box 10 Folder 098
Box 10 Folder 099
Box 10 Folder 100
Box 10 Folder 101
Box 11 Folder 102
Box 11 Folder 103
Box 11 Folder 104
Box 11 Folder 105
Box 11 Folder 106
Slides--Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 1972-1992, undated
Box 11 Folder 107
Slides--Aleutian Islands, hearings in Unalaska re: Relocationduring WWII, 1981
Box 11 Folder 108
Slides--Eskimo Olympics, 1974-1982 Box 11 Folder 109
Box 11 Folder 110
Box 11 Folder 111
Slides--Yupik people, Alaska, 1974-1985, undated
Box 11 Folder 112
Slides--Huichole Indians, Sierra Madre Mountains, Mexico, 1974,1985
Box 11 Folder 113
Slides--Alaska personalities, 1974-1990 Box 11 Folder 114
Slides--Anchorage, Alaska, 1976-1990, undated Box 11 Folder 115
Slides--Swallows Day, San Juan Capistrano, CA, 1979 Box 12 Folder 116
Slides--California--Jack London Ranch, Valley of the Moon, 1979 Box 12 Folder 117
Slides--Mystery, 1979-1988 Box 12 Folder 118
Slides--Anchorage Museum and other historic images, 1980-1988 Box 12 Folder 119
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Slides--Italy, 1982 Box 12 Folder 120
Slides--Seychelles, 1982 Box 12 Folder 121
Slides--Tunis, Tunisia, 1982 Box 12 Folder 122
Slides--Dalton Highway, Alaska, 1982-1988 Box 12 Folder 123
Slides--Salana homesteaders, Alaska, 1984-1988, undated Box 12 Folder 124
Box 12 Folder 125
Box 12 Folder 126
Box 12 Folder 127
Box 12 Folder 128
Slides--ALCAN--British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories,1989-1990
Box 12 Folder 129
Slides--Gordon Gibbons, builder, Santa Barbara, 1990 Box 12 Folder 130
Slides--British Virgin Islands, 1990 Box 12 Folder 131
Slides--Hong Kong, 1996 Box 12 Folder 132
Slides--Fiji and Tonga, 1996 Box 12 Folder 133
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 1-5), 1984 Box 13 Folder 134
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 6-10), 1984 Box 13 Folder 135
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 11-15), 1984 Box 13 Folder 136
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 16-20), 1984 Box 13 Folder 137
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 21-25), 1984 Box 13 Folder 138
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 26-27), 1984 Box 13 Folder 139
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 27-30), 1985 Box 13 Folder 140
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 31-35), 1985 Box 13 Folder 141
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 36-39), 1985 Box 13 Folder 142
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 41-45), 1985 Box 13 Folder 143
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 46-48), 1985 Box 13 Folder 144
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 51-55), 1985 Box 13 Folder 145
Slides--the Bering Sea (boxes 56-58), 1985 Box 13 Folder 146
Slides--Borneo, 1990 Box 14 Folder 147
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Box 14 Folder 148
Box 14 Folder 149
Box 14 Folder 150
Box 14 Folder 151
Box 14 Folder 152
Box 14 Folder 153
Box 14 Folder 154
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Travel logs, 1959-1985
Scope and Contents
The spiral-bound and clipped loose-leaf logs contained in this series, both typed and handwritten, chronicleMorgan’s trip up the ALCAN Highway with Dodge Morgan (1959); her two-year sailing voyage aboard the Coasterwith husband Dodge Morgan (1963-1965); her drive across the country, interviewing affluent Native Americans(1971); Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant interviews to document the transition of Alaskan Native peoples uponwinning a large land grant (1972); interviews with Alaska native peoples for Alaska Northwest Publishing (1974);and her stay with homesteaders in Salna, Alaska (1985).
Title/Description Instances
Log of trip up the ALCAN Highway, 1959 Box 15 Folder 001
Log of the Coaster sailing trip with husband Dodge Morgan,1963-1965
Box 15 Folder 002
Log of drive from Los Angeles to Maine, 1971 Box 15 Folder 003
Log for Alicia Patterson grant, 1972 Box 15 Folder 004
Log of travel for Alicia Patterson grant/Northwest Publishing toGalina, 1972
Box 15 Folder 005
Log of travel for Alicia Patterson grant/Northwest Publishing toNANA, 1974
Box 15 Folder 006
Log of travel for Alicia Patterson grant/Northwest Publishing toArctic Slope, 1974
Box 15 Folder 007
Log of travel for Alicia Patterson grant/Northwest Publishing toBristol Bay, 1974
Box 15 Folder 008
Log of travel for Alicia Patterson grant/Northwest Publishing toTatitlik, Yukon River, Sleetmute, Gambell, Nome and Diomede,1974
Box 15 Folder 009
Log of travel for Alicia Patterson grant/Northwest Publishing toPribilofs, 1974
Box 15 Folder 010
Log of stay with homesteaders in Slana, Alaska, 1985 Box 15 Folder 011
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Joshua Slocum's 1895 sailing itinery for trip around the world,1895
Box 15 Folder 012
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Scrapbooks, 1952-1999
Scope and Contents
In this series are two large format bound scrapbooks with paper pages, one a collection of clippings, photos andmemorabilia from Morgan’s high school years (1952-1954), and the other a collection of clippings, photos andmemorabilia from her sailing voyage aboard the Coaster (1963-1965) with husband Dodge Morgan.
Title/Description Instances
High school scrapbook, 1952-1954 Box 15 Folder 001
Scrapbook of sailing trip aboard the Coaster--photos, 1963-1965 Box 15 Folder 002
Scrapbook of sailing trip aboard the Coaster--original pages,1963-1965
Box OVS 6 Folder 003
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Manuscripts, 1944-1997
Scope and Contents
Including both written work by Morgan as well as others, highlights of this series include the original handwrittendraft of Morgan’s The Woman’s Guide to Boating and Cooking; a little chapbook of her early poems/juvenilia;college essays; her sailing voyage aboard the Coaster (1963-1965); her unpublished Bering Sea feature (1986); theoriginal typescript of Good Time Girls of the Alaskan Yukon, her book on prostitution in Alaska (1997), then titled“Whores of Yore”; and writing by others.
Title/Description Instances
Typewritten chapbook--"Lael's Poems May 22, 1944", 1944 Box 16 Folder 001
First serious writing attempts (assignments for and bio of HoraceReynolds, Emerson College), 1957, 2005
Box 16 Folder 002
"Boat Book--A Cook's Tour"--original MS for "The Woman'sGuide to Boating and Cooking", 1966
Box 16 Folder 003
Correspondence and transcript of V. Blanchard's life storyrecorded and edited by LM, 1969
Box 16 Folder 004
"Loory's Rules of Thumb for Novice Home Buyers" typewrittenlist, circa 1970
Box 16 Folder 005
Report by Lee Warren on LM's "And the Land Provides", 1974 Box 16 Folder 006
Research notes for National Geographic article on Maine Indians,1980s
Box 16 Folder 007
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Reflective piece re: father's death, gravestone sketch, 1982 Box 16 Folder 008
"Learning from 'Dirty' Detectives" draft, after 1982 Box 16 Folder 009
MS for National Geographic on the Bering Sea, 1986 Box 16 Folder 010
"Life Plan" for Boston University business class, 1986 Box 16 Folder 011
Original "Whores of Yore"/"Good Time Girls" MS--chapters 1-3,1997
Box 16 Folder 012
Original "Whores of Yore"/"Good Time Girls" MS--chapters 4-6,1997
Box 16 Folder 013
Original "Whores of Yore"/"Good Time Girls" MS--chapters 7-9,1997
Box 16 Folder 014
Original "Whores of Yore"/"Good Time Girls" MS--chapters15-17 (end), 1997
Box 16 Folder 016
Original "Whores of Yore"/"Good Time Girls" MS--notes, 1997 Box 16 Folder 017
Original "Whores of Yore"/"Good Time Girls" MS--mailing list,style sheets, bibliography, acknowledgements, 1997
Box 16 Folder 018
"Coyote Handbook" by LM, loose leaf booklet, 1997 Box 16 Folder 019
"The Life and Times of Lael Morgan--2001", 2001 Box 16 Folder 020
University of Texas Arlington student's profile of LM, 2003 Box 16 Folder 021
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Correspondence, 1942-2017
Scope and Contents
This series contains correspondence with family and friends; professional correspondence; teaching correspondence;and awards and honors in the form of handwritten and typewritten letters; greeting cards; postcards; and emailprintouts. Highlights include correspondence with Alaska public figures such as Gov. William A. Egan, SenatorVance Phillips, Senator Ted Stevens, Brinks robber Champagne Ricky Reese, lobbyist John Shively, and SenatorLisa Murkowski.
Title/Description Instances
holiday greeting, enclosed photo of LM brother, 1942 Box 17 Folder 001
Boston University, re: Alaska Highway trip press, 1959 Box 17 Folder 002
Letters to and from brother Lee Warren and family, 1960-1986 Box 17 Folder 003
Holiday correspondence, 1961 Box 17 Folder 004
Letters to LM from Alaska then-governor William A. Egan, 1962 Box 17 Folder 005
Letter to LM from Bob DeArmond, Executive Editor of AlaskaSportsman and The Milepost, 1963
Box 17 Folder 006
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letters, drawing and photo to LM Dodge Morgan from Jack Cahill,1963-1964
Box 17 Folder 007
Letter to LM DM from Vern, 1964 Box 17 Folder 008
Letter to LM DM from Mrs. Mark McDonnell, Jr., 1964 Box 17 Folder 009
Correspondence from DM's parents Clifford Ruth James andbrother Russ Morgan, circa 1964
Box 17 Folder 010
Letter to LM DM from Alaska then-Senator Vance Phillips withearthquake account, 1964
Box 17 Folder 011
Letter and earthquake account to LM DM from Lynn Dan, 1964 Box 17 Folder 012
to LM DM from Stockton T. Hirst, 1964 Box 17 Folder 013
Letter and earthquake acct. to LM DM from George Ruth Arcond,1964
Box 17 Folder 014
Letter and earthquake acct to LM DM from Laurie, 1964 Box 17 Folder 015
To LM from Sally Pomeroy, 1964 Box 17 Folder 016
Correspondence related to LM's article "Sailing on the Edge" inMotor Boating, 1964-1965
Box 17 Folder 017
Letters and earthquake accounts from Ruth and CameronEdmondson, 1964-1965
Box 17 Folder 018
to LM from Julie Shanon Gallant, 1965-1966 Box 17 Folder 019
to LM from Baron Christoph von Imhof, 1966 Box 17 Folder 020
to LM from Dr. Milot Fritz, 1967 Box 17 Folder 021
Correspondence with Sam Miller, 1968-1969, 2008-2010 Box 17 Folder 022
to LM from Larry Pryor, LA Times, circa 1970s Box 17 Folder 023
Letters from LM to parents during Alicia Patterson grant travels,1972-1973
Box 17 Folder 024
with various correspondents, 1972-2011 Box 17 Folder 025
to Richard Nolte, Alicia Patterson Foundation, from WilliamTaylor, National Museum of Man, re: LM, 1973
Box 17 Folder 026
to LM from Steve Kline, 1973, circa 1979 Box 17 Folder 027
to LM from cousin David W. Eaton, 1975, 1984 Box 17 Folder 028
Reeve Aleutian Airways inter-office memo re: LM travel, 1975 Box 17 Folder 029
card and book excerpt photocopy to LM from mother HazelWarren, 1976
Box 17 Folder 030
to LM from Mother and Father, 1976-1978 Box 17 Folder 031
Correspondence and documents related to LM's aunt RuthFrothingham, 1977-1978
Box 17 Folder 032
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to LM from Wayne Newall, Passamaquoddy Indian Township,1977
Box 17 Folder 033
Correspondence and materials related to the Ann StevensMemorial Fund, 1978-1979
Box 17 Folder 034
re: Sheila Turner Seed, 1979 Box 17 Folder 035
to LM from Allen O'Brien, 1979-1980 Box 17 Folder 036
to LM from Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, 1979-1994 Box 17 Folder 037
to LM from Champagne Ricky (Richard) Reese (Brinks robber),1980-1981
Box 17 Folder 038
Birth announcement, correspondence and photos--Lael MeganBach, 1980-1985
Box 17 Folder 039
re: Jeannette B. Pomeroy, 1981-1982 Box 17 Folder 040
to Stanley Bippus, school superintendent, re: publishing, 1981 Box 17 Folder 041
Three typewritten letters to LM from Kay J. Kennedy, 1982 Box 17 Folder 042
re: Proposition 7 ballot measure, fish and game management, 1982 Box 17 Folder 043
Correspondence with Bryan Barber, M.D., 1982-1987, 2011 Box 17 Folder 044
to LM from Jane Sutherland Niebergal, 1983 Box 17 Folder 045
to LM from John Shively, 1983, 2004 Box 17 Folder 046
to LM from Elizabeth Bryant re: Getty book, 1984 Box 17 Folder 047
to/from LM re: name Lael, 1984, 1992 Box 17 Folder 048
Correspondence with Dartmouth College library for NationalGeographic Maine Indian article, 1984-1985
Box 17 Folder 049
LM's account of Gil Galloway, circa mid-1980s Box 17 Folder 050
Letter to Kent re: Pacific Rim Publishers, 1985 Box 17 Folder 051
Correspondence with homesteaders in Slana, Alaska, 1985 Box 17 Folder 052
from LM re: National Geographic Bering Sea story, 1986 Box 17 Folder 053
Correspondence related to Boston University and classmates, 1986 Box 17 Folder 054
In Memorium and obituary for Virginia Blanchard, 1986 Box 17 Folder 055
University of Alaska Fairbanks employment correspondence,1988
Box 17 Folder 056
to LM from Bill Garrett, editor of National Geographic Magazine,1980s-1991
Box 17 Folder 057
Note to LM from Rita Gravel, attached to Washingtonian articlephotocopy, 1990
Box 17 Folder 058
Notes to LM re: article about her in New Straits Times, 1990 Box 17 Folder 059
Tenure correspondence--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1993
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Box 17 Folder 060
Letters and certificates of gift to LM from Rasmuson Library,University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1993, 1995
Box 17 Folder 061
University of Alaska Fairbanks employment letter, attached notes,story MS, 1997
Box 17 Folder 062
University of Alaska Fairbanks Natural Resources Fund ProjectReport correspondence, 1998
Box 17 Folder 063
Note to LM from Ilene with "The Goodriches of Cabot" VermontLife article attached, 1998
Box 17 Folder 064
LM's "Plans for an Elegant Exit" list to Shanon Gallant, 2002 Box 17 Folder 065
from LM to Diana/Dianne Campbell, 2003-2005 Box 17 Folder 066
Typewritten correspondence between LM and Dodge Morgan,2003
Box 17 Folder 067
Email and typewritten letter--LM and Robyn Veazey, 2005 Box 17 Folder 068
15-year recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists,2006
Box 17 Folder 069
Epicenter Press correspondence re: history of company, 2006 Box 17 Folder 070
from president of University of Texas at Arlington, 2006 Box 17 Folder 071
Correspondence re: nomination of Bruce B. Brugman forColumbia University Award, 2006
Box 17 Folder 072
Correspondence with Bob DeArmond re: Dale DeArmond, 2006 Box 17 Folder 073
Letter and photocopies, email printouts to LM from Earl L.Brown, 2006-2007
Box 17 Folder 074
from Rich Armstrong, Sounding Publications, 2007 Box 17 Folder 075
Correspondence with Brian Seed, 2007 Box 17 Folder 076
Email and printed invitations for "Gold Rush Girls" musical,2007-2008
Box 17 Folder 077
from LM to Lana Proctor, 2008 Box 17 Folder 078
Email from Cally Gurley, MWWC Curator, re: author series talk,2008
Box 17 Folder 079
Email wedding announcement--Mary Ames and Ken Jouppi, 2008 Box 17 Folder 080
Email correspondence re: LM's talk at Ocean Point, Saco, Maine,2010
Box 17 Folder 081
to LM from Alaska US Senator Lisa Murkowski, 2011 Box 17 Folder 082
Correspondence with Tara Kline, daughter of Steve Kline, 2011 Box 17 Folder 083
Correspondence with Maggie Field re: Steve and Tara Kline, 2011 Box 17 Folder 084
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Email from Rose Speranza, Rasmuson Library, University ofAlaska Fairbanks, 2012
Box 17 Folder 085
Email re: "Wanton West", 2012 Box 17 Folder 086
Correspondence between Lael Morgan and Karmo Sanders re:Good Times Girls (the play), 2017
Box 17 Folder 087
George Herben to Robert Henning re: Alaska Geographic (withnote from Lael Morgan), 1981
Box 17 Folder 088
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Memorabilia, 1953-2011, undated
Scope and Contents
This series contains awards and certificates, invitations and programs, and documents related to schooling, Alaska,events, teaching and travel. Highlights include a Kennedy Center box card signed by George and Barbara Bush;Morgan’s Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame materials; her private detective ID card, and a tribute compiled by friendsof Morgan on her departure from Alaska in 1999. It also includes objects such as Morgan’s snowshoes, a gold panand a portion of a wooden explosives crate.
Title/Description Instances
Boston University Military Ball invitation, 1953 Box 18 Folder 001
Cony High School memorabilia, 1953-1954 Box 18 Folder 002
Emerson College tuition and other documents, 1955-1956 Box 18 Folder 003
Alaska Highway guidebook, Canadian Government TravelBureau, circa 1959
Box 18 Folder 004
Voting certificate, Alaska, 1960 Box 18 Folder 005
LM's snowshoes, circa 1960s Box 18 Folder 006
Anchorage Times Publishing subscription receipt, 1961 Box 18 Folder 007
"Operation Free Cruise" statement for free dinner, 1962 Box 18 Folder 008
Press passes, driver's license, 1963-1976 Box 18 Folder 009
LM's World Health Organization International Certificate ofImmunization, 1963-1990
Box 18 Folder 010
Passports, 1963, 1994 Box 18 Folder 011
St. Thomas radio station staff list, 1964 Box 18 Folder 012
Items from trip to Russia and Scandinavia for Fairbanks DailyNews, 1967
Box 18 Folder 013
Alaska Press Club Award of Excellence, 1974 Box 18 Folder 014
Certificate of appointment to Alaska Board of Fish and Game,1975
Box 18 Folder 015
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Ford Foundation grant to study bilingual education--itinerary andmailing list, 1976
Box 18 Folder 016
"Men of Achievement" solicitation, 1977 Box 18 Folder 017
Alaska Women's Resource Center honor, 1978 Box 18 Folder 018
Notebook page of addresses, late 1970s Box 18 Folder 019
The Royalists stock investment group roster, circa late 1970s Box 18 Folder 020
Orange County Professional Bartenders School brochure, circa1980
Box 18 Folder 021
Rental agreement house inventory, San Juan Capistrano, CA, 1980 Box 18 Folder 022
Menu--Villa Serbelloni, Lake Como, Italy, 1982 Box 18 Folder 023
Detective academy training catalog, ID card, 1982 Box 18 Folder 024
University of St. Thomas faculty recital program, 1983 Box 18 Folder 025
Wedding invitation--Sen. Ted Stevens and Catherine AnnChandler, early 1980s
Box 18 Folder 026
Resume--Andy Malloy, circa 1986 Box 18 Folder 027
Benjamin Franklin Award certificate for Art and Eskimo Power,1989
Box 18 Folder 028
Kennedy Center box card, signed by George Barbara Bush, circa1990s
Box 18 Folder 029
Sketches of LM and man by Firmin, 1992 Box 18 Folder 030
American Press Institute seminar certificate, 1999 Box 18 Folder 031
Tribute notebook to LM by Anchorage friends, 1999 Box 18 Folder 032
James Chester Morgan memorial materials, 2003 Box 18 Folder 033
Texas Wesleyan University college day program--LM speaker,2006
Box 18 Folder 034
Epicenter Press catalog, 2006 Box 18 Folder 035
University of Texas at Tyler commencement program, 2007 Box 18 Folder 036
David Shanon Gallant materials--obituary, spreadsheet of artwork,3 CDs of memorial powerpoint, 2008
Box 18 Folder 037
LM slide presentation invitation, home of Don and Mary AnnBrown, 2009
Box 18 Folder 038
Maine Women Writers Collection Spring Authors Series flyer,2009
Box 18 Folder 039
Alaska Women's Hall of Fame induction materials, 2010 Box 18 Folder 040
Montana book tour schedule, 2011 Box 18 Folder 041
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LM lecture flyer--"Yukon Good-Time Girls and Native AlaskanWomen", undated
Box 18 Folder 042
LM's gold pan, undated Box 19 Folder 043
Typewriter, undated Box 19 Folder 044
Fragment of explosives box [on display], undated Box 19 Folder 044
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Media, 1986-2012, undated
Scope and Contents
This series includes VHS tapes containing programs on Alaska (some written by Morgan) and interviews with andpresentations by Morgan; one CD, one cassette tape, one floppy disk and one hard drive containing scans of articlesand images.
Title/Description Instances
VHS--"From Mario to Lael" 3 segments: "Finals"; Lael Mario;Alumni Video Magazine, 1986-1988
Box 20 Folder 001
VHS--LM Boston University class, 1987 Box 20 Folder 002
VHS--Wedding of David Warren Eaton and Babette AndrewEaton, 1987
Box 20 Folder 003
VHS--Portraits of Leadership: Chief Katlian and Howard Rock,1989
Box 20 Folder 004
VHS--The 1990 Alcan 5000 Winter Rally, 1990 Box 20 Folder 005
VHS--The 1990 Alcan 5000 Winter Rally, 1990 Box 20 Folder 006
VHS--Rainier Pictures "Trans Borneo", 1991 Box 20 Folder 007
VHS--Rainier Pictures "Trans Borneo", undated Box 20 Folder 008
VHS--Rainier Pictures "Trans Borneo", undated Box 20 Folder 009
VHS--Rainier Pictures "Hard Driving: The Alcan Adventure",1992
Box 20 Folder 010
VHS--The Alaska Highway 1942-1992, 1992 Box 20 Folder 011
VHS--"The Alaska Humanities Forum", circa 1993 Box 20 Folder 012
VHS-- LM "Prostitution in Alaska" lecture to U. of AlaskaFairbanks, 1996
Box 20 Folder 013
VHS--"Fourth Avenue: The Street That Was the Whole Town",1996
Box 20 Folder 014
VHS--The American Experience #910: "Gold Fever", 1997 Box 21 Folder 015
VHS--The American Experience "Gold Fever", 1997 Box 21 Folder 016
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VHS--"Good Time Girls of the Gold Rush", 1997 Box 21 Folder 017
VHS--"Modern Marvels: Alcan Highway", 2001 Box 21 Folder 018
VHS--"Kusah Hakwaan: An Alaskan Tlingit Indian Legend",2001
Box 21 Folder 019
Standard cassette tape--LM interview with Fairbanks artist JeanLester, 1996
Box 21 Folder 020
3.5" floppy disk--LM book inventory, 2006 Box 21 Folder 021
LM's Light Room 3 hard drive, 2012 Box 21 Folder 022
35mm positive microfilm "Mala, Ray (Wise) Scrapbook,1929-1942", 1929-1942
Box 21 Folder 023
35mm microfilm "Frank G. Speck Collection of Photographs" Box8, undated
Box 21 Folder 024
35mm microfilm "Frank G. Speck Collection of Photographs" Box9, undated
Box 21 Folder 025
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Montana research, 1996-2012Physical Description: 48 folders
Arrangement
The series is ordered in the original order, including folder names, by Lael Morgan.
Title/Description Instances
Maps of Butte, MT, undated Box 22 Folder 001
Butte research, undated Box 22 Folder 002
Butte research, 2004-2009, undated Box 22 Folder 003
Maps of Butte, MT, 2004, undated Box 22 Folder 004
Helena maps, 2004, undated Box 22 Folder 005
Ellen Baumler's Ghosts in Butte, speech and pamphlet, 2002-2003 Box 22 Folder 006
Email with Chris Daly re: Butte building permits, 2009 Box 22 Folder 007
Morgan's typed notes on Butte, 2009 Box 22 Folder 008
Helena research, 2004-2009 Box 22 Folder 009
Miles City research, 2009-2011, undated Box 22 Folder 011
Miles City handwritten notes, undated Box 22 Folder 012
Montana places research, 2004-2011 Box 22 Folder 013
Montana places maps, undated Box 22 Folder 014
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Montana places handwritten notes, undated Box 22 Folder 015
Montana players A-B, 2004-2009 Box 22 Folder 016
Montana players C-H, 2007-2009 Box 22 Folder 017
Montana players L-N, 2009-2010 Box 22 Folder 018
Montana players N-P, 2006-2010 Box 22 Folder 019
Montana players S-W, 2006-2010 Box 22 Folder 020
Chinese, 1996-2012 Box 22 Folder 021
Chicago Joe, 2009-2010 Box 22 Folder 022
W. A. Clark, 2004-2011 Box 22 Folder 023
Cruse, 2009-2010 Box 22 Folder 024
Marcus Daly, 2009-2010 Box 22 Folder 025
F. Augustus Heinze, 2006-2009 Box 22 Folder 026
Stanley Ketchel, 2005-2010 Box 22 Folder 027
Mary MacLane, 2010 Box 22 Folder 028
Jeanette Rankin, 2009-2010 Box 22 Folder 029
Montana general prostitution, 2004-2009 Box 22 Folder 030
Research Tools, 2006-2009 Box 22 Folder 031
Montana Transportation, 2004-2009 Box 23 Folder 032
Montana sources, 2004-2011 Box 23 Folder 033
Montana notes, 2004-2010 Box 23 Folder 034
Montana Misc., 2004-2010 Box 23 Folder 035
Montana Intro & Chapter 1: Reflections, 2009, undated Box 23 Folder 036
Montana Chapter 2: Summer Women, 2009, undated Box 23 Folder 037
Montana Chapter 3: Butte, The Black Heart of Montana,2004-2009, undated
Box 23 Folder 038
Montana Chapter 4: Copper Kings, 2010, undated Box 23 Folder 039
Montana Chapter 5: Miles City, 2007-2011, undated Box 24 Folder 040
Montana Chapter 6: Last of the Silver Years, 2004-2009, undated Box 24 Folder 041
Montana Chapter 7: Madeleine and Her Sisters in Sin, undated Box 24 Folder 042
Montana Chapter 8: Celestial, 2009, undated Box 24 Folder 043
Montana Chapter 9: Mary MacLane, 2008-2011, undated Box 24 Folder 044
Montana Chapter 10: The Beginning of the End, 2010, undated Box 25 Folder 045
Montana Chapter 11: New Options, 2009-2010, undated
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Box 25 Folder 046
Montana Chapter #12: Epilogue, 2010 Box 25 Folder 047
Montana photos, 2010-2011, undated Box 25 Folder 048
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Tonga research, 1998-2009, undatedPhysical Description: 27 folders
Arrangement
The series is ordered in the original order, including folder names, by Lael Morgan.
Title/Description Instances
Ray Wise Mala manuscript draft, 2009 Box 26 Folder 001
Bay of Plenty Times, 2009 Box 26 Folder 002 Folder 003
SEW Baker research in The New Zealand Herald (1890-1903),2009
Box 26 Folder 004
Shirley Baker research from Gillian Smyth, 2009, undated Box 26 Folder 005 Folder 006
Death & Cemetery records for Shirley and Laura Baker, 2009 Box 26 Folder 007
Shirley Baker research in New Zealand Observer and Freelancearticles, undated
Box 26 Folder 008
Shirley Baker articles - other papers, undated Box 26 Folder 009
Box 26 Folder 010Shirley Baker research, New Zealand Herald articles, undated
Box 27 Folder 011
Shirley Baker research in New Zealand Herald articles, undated Box 27 Folder 012
Notes, contacts & players in Shirley Baker research, 2009 Box 27 Folder 013
Shirley Baker research re: Lola Baker emails & PacificManuscripts Bureau, 2008-2009
Box 27 Folder 014
Business cards for Tonga research, undated Box 27 Folder 015
Correspondence & notes re: Shirley Baker, 1998-2009, undated Box 27 Folder 016 Folder 017
Birth certificate & Shirley Baker research in New Zealand Herald(1880-1889), 2009, undated
Box 27 Folder 018
Tonga - A short history, 2009 Box 27 Folder 019
Box 27 Folder 020 Folder 021Observer articles (1881-1908), 2009
Box 28 Folder 022
Research from The Turnbill Library & National Library of NewZealand, 2009
Box 28 Folder 023
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Copy of "Report of Minister of Police in Re AttemptedAssassination" (1887), undated
Box 28 Folder 024
Shirley Baker research in various New Zealand newspapers(1879-1897), 2009
Box 28 Folder 025 Folder 026
Shirley Baker research on CD, undated Box 28 Folder 027
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Texas research, 2003-2010, undatedPhysical Description: 18 folders
Arrangement
The series is ordered in the original order, including folder names, by Lael Morgan.
Title/Description Instances
Harriot Ames, 2006-2010 Box 28 Folder 001
Judge Roy Bean, 2005-2007 Box 28 Folder 002
Blue Book, 2006-2007 Box 28 Folder 003
Bonnie & Clyde, 2004-2008 Box 29 Folder 004
Chicken Ranch, 2005-2007, undated Box 29 Folder 005
Colbert's Ferry, 2005-2007 Box 29 Folder 006
Cowboy Players, 2007 Box 29 Folder 007
Cowboy notes, 2006 Box 29 Folder 008
Box 29 Folder 009Cowboy books, 2004-2007, undated
Box 30 Folder 010
Cowboy source, 2003-2005 Box 30 Folder 011
Founders, 2005-2010 Box 30 Folder 012
Dickerson, 2003-2010, undated Box 30 Folder 013
Fort Griffin, 2006-2007, undated Box 30 Folder 014
Gay Lesbian, 2005-2008 Box 31 Folder 015 Folder 016
Francis Hamer, 2005-2008 Box 31 Folder 017
Misc. Texas research, 2010 Box 31 Folder 018
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