Caption: Proclamation - Gov. Mike Stepovich signs the proclamation setting the dates for Alaska's first state elections. Looking on and ready to attest the Governor's signature is Secretary of Alaska Waino E. Hendrickson. - Office of the Governor...
"Sister Mary Lucca, Administrator of St. Ann's Hospital in Juneau receives a copy of Egan's proclamation designating May 8-14 as Hospital Week in Alaska."
Text: In the foreground… totem carved by the
S. E. Alaska Indians of WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD
"sitting on his suitcase"… (extreme right).
Original Lincoln to[t]em at the left. Note he
Has his hand extended "holding the...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russians to the United States of America; Concluded March 30, 1867.
Remainder of title: and recommending an appropriation for the payment for the territory ceded to the United States, and legislation for the occupation and government of the same. At head of title: 40th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex.Doc....