This print is gorgeous, it will look great on your wall. Nancy has generously donated profits from the prints the SMHS sells to the Sitka Maritime Heritage Society. Price is just $95. If you order by mail, add $7 for careful packaging and mailing to you. Edition limited to just 300! Send check or money order to the address at bottom of the page.
New T-shirt has woodcut image by Rebecca Poulson of the shoreboat Donna going in to the Japonski Island Boathouse.
Boathouse t-shirts colors are: a gray blue (“Bay”), a mossy green (“Willow”) and a washed red (“Nautical Red”). Short sleeve shirts are in those colors and also available in cobalt blue (“Pacific Blue”), orangish red (“Poppy”) and a few in purple (“Plum”). These are all premium pigment washed shirts.
Boathouse image is also on Tote Bags, a large, heavy duty natural cotton canvas bag, for $25. Easily the size of a grocery bag.
Boathouse image is also on a ladies t-shirt, which run very small – a large is equivalent to a small in the pigment dyed shirts. They are a fine rib knit so are more form fitting. They are available in Chocolate, a light blue, and a medium blue. These are available for $16 or $12 for members.
Hat has the shore boat (ferries between Sitka and Japonski Island) Arrowhead. Washed cotton caps, in blue or red, are $20, and the oilskin caps, in brown or black, are $25.
Our shirt from 2006 features a canned salmon label found in the old Pyramid Packing Company cannery, built in 1918 and now home to Fishermen's Quay and Murray Pacific, on Sitka's waterfront.
Cannery label t-shirts come in medium-dark Blue, Aqua, chocolate Brown, Tan, and Black. The sizes are generous and won't shrink. They are pigment-dyed (except the black), heavy-weight premium cotton shirts.
Sizes in all are S, M, L, XL and XXL.
Short sleeve shirts are $20 and long sleeve shirts are $25. Add $3 per shirt for mailing in the U.S.
That's $16 short, $20 long, or $16 for cotton cap and $20 for oilskin.
This dvd is an intriguing film of Sheldon Jackson School from the 1930s through 1940 made by then-superintendent Les Yaw. The film, a window into SJS and Sitka history, was transferred to dvd by Les Yaw’s son Charles Yaw and includes narration, added years later, by Les Yaw.
Standout bits are the scenes of teenage boys hard at work with hand tools, giving a grin to the camera; the sawmill, put together by SJ staff and students, which would not pass a single OSHA requirement; and appearances by Peter Simpson and Andrew Hope, important Native leaders in the fight for land claims.
Charles Yaw has generously allowed reproduction of the 27-minute film on dvd, and it is available at the Sitka Historical Society Museum (which also has Les Yaw’s book 60 Years in Sitka, an ideal complement) or through the Sitka Maritime Heritage Society through the contact information below. Copies of the dvd are $10 unless you are in it. One dollar of each sale goes to a fund for reprinting Les Yaw’s books.
Building the Sheldon Jackson School seiner SJS in 1936-37. Pictured left to right: Joe Ozawa, John James, David Howard, Peter Sing, Les Yaw, and Peter Simpson. Photo Sheldon Jackson College collection.
To become a member of the SMHS, and receive our (mostly) quarterly newsletter and get t shirt discount, send a check for $30 for a basic membership ($10 seniors and students, $40 whole crew, or join at the $50 or $100 level, or any amount you are comfortable with) with your name and address and email address, and whether you would like to receive the newsletter by email to
Sitka Maritime Heritage
Society (or SMHS)
P. O. Box 2153
Sitka, Alaska, 99835
email heritage at sitka maritime dot org
Phone 907 747-8801