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...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 1:01 minutes MPG format. Sitka is a city of about 8,700 people nestled beside the forested mountains of Baranof Island in southeast Alaska. The climate is mild with temperatures from the mid-20's to 30's in the...
Latin. Shows northern latitudes not previously recorded on a printed map. Attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus. From the first woodblock atlas of the Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geography. Cut by Johannes Schnitzer of Armsheim, as evidenced by...
Verso: Philip J. Smith of Cordova receives congratulations on being the Alaska winner of the 1959-60 Voice of Democracy broadcast scriptwriting competition and one of four National Finalists. Philip is shown at the national Awards Luncheon in...
Verso: Alaska's William Randolph Hearst Scholars--Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) congratulates (left), Loren Leman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Leman of Ninilchik and Tom Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Anderson of Anchorage who were chosen...
Shows land district divisions, reported gold discoveries, coal & copper deposits, land offices, routes to interior, proposed railroads. Capital is at Sitka (thus map would be pre-1906). In color. Mounted on linen.
Title from caption. Photograph of Sitka, Alaska, showing Castle Hill. Narrative in photo album reads: "Sitka; old Russian capital of Alaska. Square building in center is known as Baranof Castle."
Title from verso. Men and equipment landing on Amchitka Island. Verso reads: "Americans occupy island 63 miles from Kiska Amchitka Island, Aleutians--In the cold waters of Constantine Harbor, Yank landing boats head toward Amchitka...
(2:39 min.) (06 of 12) Types of development in Alaska after Statehood and the Resource Article development -- resources; 33 -- strategic minerals; undeveloped minerals -- Alaska; oil on Arctic Coast; 1920 -- husband forced down; Prudhoe Bay --...
Relief shown pictorially. Contemporary color. Shows world in two spheres, with California as an island. Shows routes of Shouton, Drake, Cavendish, and others. Border contains renditions of the sun and moon, and a compass rose. Includes keys of...
One minute, 43 second, color/silent film clip of the city of Ketchikan.
A large sign reads: "Ketchikan all America city, the salmon capital of the world". This view of the city gives a glimpse of the Stedman building, the First National...
Title taken from caption. "9359 -- (4) A permanent residence at St. Michaels is not a thing to be desired, particularly by persons of a sociable disposition, for the winters are long and dark and cold; for hundreds of miles in every direction...
Title taken from caption. "9206 -- (23) In 1897 Dr. J. Jones commanded a lucrative practice in Evanston, Ill., and Mr. G. B.Winter was one of the successful grocers of the same city. About this time the instigator and promoter of Klondike Gold...
Title taken from caption. "9324 -- (42) The pioneer white settler at Skagway located there in 1891, yet the first ship load of Yukon argonauts who landed on that beach in July, 1897, saw few signs of human habitations. Today four splendid...
Title supplied by cataloger. The person second from left appears to be a female. There are icicles hanging from the building and in one window a logo with what appears to be a bird between two capital A's. Some boxes sit on the ground behind...
Title taken from caption. View of a group of people riding on a wagon that is decorated with balloons, streamers, and banners in the Alaska State Fair parade in Palmer, Alaska. Banner reads: "State House" and has a bumper sticker on it that reads:...