Verso: Taking the rank off the white man and putting it on the Eskimo. This was one of the best decisions I made. The white man in this picture turned out to be Bishop Gordon and the Eskimo's name David Frankson of Pt. Hope.
Verso: The first ANB basketball team was formed in Sitka in 1917. From the beginning of the tournament the Sitka ANB teams have ranked among the toughest competitors. They took the first of several Gold Medal championships in 1949 and again in 1956...
Verso: These native Alaskans successfully completed an 18-months course in Industrial and Communications Electronics and were graduated August 10 from the RCA Institutes in New York. All are members of a pilot educational project sponsored by the...
Verso: William Earnest Beltz, a 47-year-old native of the Eskimo Village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated transition from territorial to State government. Beltz's father, a native of...
Verso: Wm. Lewis and family. A native family at Wrangell. Mr. Lewis has for years been elected a member of the town council by white votes. The man at the extreme right is Wm. Fletcher, a brother in law, a prominent boat builder.
View across cemetery and town toward water. Several American flags are flying over buildings in village. A steam powered sailing vessel is in Delorof Harbor, background.