The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Mrs. J. A. Baughman (doctor's wife) and Mrs. E. E. Hale (bankers wife) stand on wooden sidewalk with Alaska Central Railroad building and Seward's first schoolhouse in the background. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Photograph with a press release included which reads: Case Of The Missing Watercolor--Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, right, presents to Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) the reproduction of a painting depicting the transfer of Russian...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ AAC -- Seward from the air -- Seward's damaged waterfront buildings and rail yards lie twisted and broken in the aftermath of the Good Friday earthquake which seriously damaged this community among many others...
Title taken from note with photo. "Civilian volunteers turn out to help put Sewards [Seward's] Radio Station KIBH back on the air following the Alaska Earthquake and tidal wave 4/3/64." About eight men are gathered around a piece of equipment...
Caption: Klondike Nuggets from "Seward's Land of Gold" by French p. 57 per book. Looks like posed studio picture. Screened picture. Verso: Successful Klondike miners. Notes: "Edwin H. Brown, on left, and Major L.H. French displaying...