Deb Boettcher is interviewed by Karen Brewster on October 11, 2018 in Skagway, Alaska.

Title:

Personal Author:

Boettcher, Deborah, interviewee.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : WAV, mono

Series:

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Recordings

General Note:

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Event Note:

Recorded at the Pantheon Saloon in Skagway, Alaska on October 11, 2018.

Abstract:

Deb Boettcher talks about her personal background, her career as a biologist, sampling salmon, coming to Skagway in 1994, volunteering with the National Park Service, getting hired and working with Doreen Cooper, cataloging artifacts, some of the artifacts in the collection, using some of the artifacts in their educational program, learning to store the artifacts, inventories, Debbie Sanders, Samantha Richert, accepting collections relating to the gold rush era, accessing their collection, research questions, the location of the archeology collection, working on the Rapuzzi Collection, Phyllis Brown, George Rapuzzi, Martin Itjen, Soapy Smith Museum, researching the artifacts, having an exhibit of unidentified artifacts and asking the public to help identify them, job duties as the museum technician, creating exhibits for several locations, opening and closing exhibits every year, Martin Itjen's Skagway street car, different media in the collection, how some of the community felt about the park, the Park Service hiring local people, and enjoying her job with the Park Service.

Personal Subject:

Boettcher, Deborah-Interviews.

Corporate Subject:

Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum.

Subject Term:

Antiquities -- Collection and preservation.

Cataloging of local history materials -- Alaska -- Skagway.

Archival materials -- Conservation and restoration -- Alaska -- Skagway.

Archival materials -- Selection for preservation.

Geographic Term:

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (Skagway, Alaska, and Seattle, Wash.) -- History.

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (Skagway, Alaska, and Seattle, Wash.) -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation.