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Juneau-Douglas City MuseumThe Bob DeArmond Alaska History Project
Search Digital Bob by clicking here : a searchable archive containing articles by Bob on the history of the Gastineau Channel area. Local Area Place Names: An on-line version of Bob's book, SOME NAMES AROUND JUNEAU, originally published by the Sitka Press in 1957. Sponsored by one of our radio stations, KINY
The Bob DeArmond Alaska History Project is an undertaking of the Juneau-Douglas City Museum. It has the objectives of recognizing the impressive achievement of one of our favorite historians, and of making his non-book writings readily accessible to the public. Anyone embarking on an historical inquiry in Southeast Alaska (and other parts of the State) benefit from R. N. (Bob) DeArmond’s work. For more than 70 years, Bob has been researching, writing, editing, publishing, corresponding, and advising on all topics historical that pertain to our region. He is the author or editor of 17 books (with additional books in progress), and has written uncountable (thousands) of newspaper columns and magazine contributions. From his current home in Sitka, he continues to contribute to The Sitka Sentinel and Alaska History. His other accomplishments, to list a few, include an entry in the 1927 Alaska flag contest, rowing from Sitka to Tacoma in a dory to go to college, serving as editor of Alaska Sportsman (now Alaska Magazine) and Alaska Journal, and as administrative assistant to Territorial Governor Frank Heintzleman. Digital Bob is comprised of three principle series Days of Yore, Gastineau ByGones, and News of the Gold Camp. These columns were published in The Juneau Empire, and Rudy Ripley’s local television guide, Info Juneau. Days of Yore was published in Info Juneau as a weekly column from 1985-1991. Gastineau ByGones was a weekly column that was published in the Empire mid-1978-1981 (Southeast Alaska Empire (’78-’80) and Juneau Empire (’80-81). News of the Mine Camp was published daily in the Juneau Empire celebrating Juneau’s 100th birthday in 1980. Bob’s research for these articles was done primarily in the Alaska Historical Library founded in the 1890s by one of Alaska’s district governors. It continued as the Territorial Library and is now the State of Alaska Library Historical Division. According to Bob, “It had bound volumes of virtually all Alaska newspapers and these are now on microfilm. It also had and has bound volumes of nearly all reports and paper of departments and agencies of the Federal Government that relate to Alaska, from 1867. Many of the reports were collected by James Wickersham while he was a delegate in Congress from Alaska, and all of his collection is in the State Library, bound in red leather.” Bob has been a prolific researcher and writer, and the archives now available on our site are incomplete. We’ll keep at it, with the efforts of our stalwart volunteers. We hope that you enjoy and benefit from this site. Please contact us with questions and comments, especially if you would like to support the project with labor or donations.
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