Box 2

A hectographed devotional containing prayers and hymns in Central Alaskan Yup'ik prepared by Fr. Aloysius Robaut and hectographed by Fr. Aloysius Ragaru at Holy Cross as Catholic Prayers & Hymns in Innuit. Includes handwritten corrections by Barnum.

A hectographed devotional containing prayers in Central Alaskan Yup'ik likely prepared by by Fr. Aloysius Robaut and hectographed by Fr. Aloysius Ragaru at Holy Cross as Innuit prayers. Includes handwritten corrections by Barnum.

A printed devotional containing prayers and hymns in Central Alaskan Yu'pik (in Cyrillic script) published by Bishop Nicholas Ziorov, and based on a translation by Revs. Jacob Netsvetov and Zachary Bel'kov, as МОЛИТВЫ И ПѢСНОПѢНІЯ НА КВИХПАКСКО-КУСКОКВИМСКОМЪ НАРѢЧІИ or Prayers & Hymns in the Kwikpagmiut-Kuskokwim Dialect. Includes a handwritten note by Barnum explaining its background.

A printed devotional containing prayers and hymns in Central Alaskan Yup'ik prepared by Fr. Aloysius Robaut of Holy Cross as Catholic Prayers & Hymns in Innuit.

Handwritten manuscript (incomplete) by Barnum on the grammar of Central Alaskan Yup'ik that may have eventually become a portion of his Grammatical Fundamentals of the Innuit Language (1901).

Notes and sketches of Alaskan rivers and river crossings (e.g., the Kipniak, Nukklerchor'vik, and Kusilvak) as well as a hand-drawn map of Kalauyet (Ayakulik) Island. Also includes a printed map of Alaska with annotations by Barnum.

Hand-drawn copy of a Holy Cross illustration, including the Sisters of St. Ann/Jesuits residences and the school, originally created by a fourteen-year-old student named Andrew.

Snippets of Holy Cross student schoolwork with questions for priests regarding their salvation (e.g., "Father is it a sin not to hear High Mass on Sundays?").

A copy of The Indian Sentinel (v. 1 no. 6), published by the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, in which Barnum provides a translation of the Lord's Prayer in Central Alaskan Yup'ik.

Tickets and clippings related to lectures given by Barnum on his work in Alaska.

Notes by Barnum on the Alaska-Canada boundary dispute of 1903.

Material regarding the grave of British Royal Navy Lt. John J. Barnard who died 1851 in Nulato.

A list of 60 persons who died in an outbreak of typhoid fever in the summer of 1900, written down by Nicholas Yuneka. While some may have been children at the Holy Cross school, others were members of the general community. See correspondence related to this dated 9-5-1900 (box 3 folder 5).

Includes data on temperature at St. Joseph's (later St. Mary's), Akulurak (1893-1894) and notes on the status of the the waterways near Holy Cross (1889-1898).

A list of locations visited in Alaska by Barnum (1894-1895) as well as a longer narrative account of his leaving St. Michael Island and encountering issues with ice floes.

Reports for St. Joseph's (Akulurak) filled out by Barnum for two school quarters--one ending March 31 and one ending June 30. The reports contains names of students, their tribal affiliation, their age, dates of admission/departure, and days present that quarter.

Photographs of Holy Cross taken in 1918 by an unknown photographer: views of the mission from "the hill" and from the graveyard; the Sisters of St. Ann's home and hospital; the Jesuit's house, school rooms, and church; students in front of the school; and a general view of the property from across the Yukon River. Also contains a photograph of the religious sisters/fathers, community members, and students on their confirmation day that year.

Photographs of St. Mary's (Akulurak) taken 1919-1921 by an unknown photographer: two views of the school with staff and students (1919-1921); community members in front of the church for Easter (1920); schoolchildren on the shore of the Akulurak River with Br. Bartholomew Keogh; and the interior of the "new" St. Mary's Church.

Includes two photographs of the Nulato mission residence as well as other scenes, the latter taken by Fr. Joseph Jette: a wood stack; children with bows and arrows; Sr. Mary Winifred and children; and "graveyard point" on the cliffs above town. Also contains an image of a Nulato family--William, son of Francois Mercier, his wife Euphrasia, and their children.