2 maps on one sheet. Shows sailing routes and distances. Relief shown by hachures. From The volume library /Henry W. Ruoff. Components: Map of Alaska -- Map of Hawaii. Page 47. Map of Philippine Islands on verso.
Issues of Anchorage Daily Times and Anchorage Daily News on newspaper stands with headlines announcing Hawaii's statehood, Anchorage, Alaska. Anchorage Daily Times headline reads: "Aloha, Hawaii. You're in too." Anchorage Daily News headline reads:...
Title taken from caption. Group photograph of people attending the statehood ceremony for the inclusion of Hawaii as the 50th state at Punchbowl Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii. Identified people in the front row are left to right: Mrs Lorrin P....
Group photograph of left to right: Senator William Heen, Honolulu, T. H.; Robert Dodge, (law partner, Heen's office), Honolulu; Arthur Trask (attorney), Honolulu; Mrs. Gracie Pfost (Congresswoman), Idaho; Mrs. Nancy Corbett (1952 candidate for...
"U. S. Delegation visiting Hawaii for Statehood Celebration, Nov. 25, 1959, paid an official call to Gen. I. D. White, at Fort Shafter, Oahu, Hawaii. Left to right: Lt. Gen. T.J.H. Trapnell, Dep. Cdr. in Chief & Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Pacific;...
Caption: "Governor Bill Quinn accepts the Alaska State Flag from Alaska's Senator Ernest Gruening while Senator Gruening visits Hawaii on a trip to help with Hawaiian Statehood." The man on the left resembles, but is not, Ernest Gruening.
Verso: Aloha, Hawaii--Congratulations are extended to the newly-elected Senator Oren Long and Rep. Daniel Inouye by (from l. to r.): Sen. Ernest Gruening (Alaska); Senator Long, himself; former Deleg. John Burns (Hawaii); Rep. Inouye, himself; Sen....
1957 Political cartoon of the head of a person who appears to be Adlai Stevenson fishing to make Alaska and Hawaii the 49th and 50th states. The U.S. Capitol Building is in the background with a fisherman holding a fishing rod with the state of...
Verso: Senator E. L. "Bob" Bartlett of Alaska is shown being greeted by Col. L. E. Chloupek, Commanding Officer, 1st Battle Group, 35th Infantry (Cacti) during the Senator's visit to the 25th Infantry Division (Tropic Lightning) at Schofield...
Shows routes of Spanish voyages in the Pacific, including Northwest Coast of North America. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Sheet 2 of 2, includes Kamchatka, Japan, the Philippines, Hawaii & most of Micronesia. Inset: Plano...
"Governor Egan looks over a brass totem pole presented by the chamber of commerce of Hermosa Beach, Ca., for Alaska's cooperation in the "Hermosa Holidays" celebration which honored Alaska and Hawaii."
(3:01 min.) (03 of 12) Ada studying Statehood Packets Hawaii -- Statehood for Constitutional Convention; State Constitutions -- compared all articles; Treaty -- Russia and the US; purchase of Alaska -- 1867; Article 3 -- Alaskans could choose...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
32 second, color/silent, film clip of the statehood parade in Nome, Alaska. The parade includes marching soldiers, children on bicycles, and cub scouts. One of the floats depicts Hawaii, with hula dancers and a ukulele.
Photograph showing forty governors standing in a large map of the United States fashioned on the front lawn of the Greenbrier Hotel. In the top left corner is Alaska, and Hawaii is far left. The state leaders are meeting for the 42nd Annual...
This color slide depicts a white sign-post with black lettering in Barrow, Alaska in 1962. The arrows on the sign read "3380 MI HAWAII," "300 MI ANAKTUVUK," "465 MI SIBERIA," "NEW YORK 3380 MI," and "MOSCOW 3585 MI." The photographer is...
Title taken from verso. Copy of Anchorage Daily News headline celebrating Alaska statehood for Monday, June 30, 1958, in Anchorage, Alaska. Headline reads: "Statehood! Make it the forty-ninth!" Other story headers read: "3 Kenai men drown in...