This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy, director of Alaska Territorial Civil Defense, handing an award certificate to Richard L. Smith in September 1956. The award reads, "Civil Defender of the Month Award Presented to Richard L. Smith for the...
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy (left), director of Alaska Territorial Civil Defense from 1954-1958, with Philip Batson (right), regional administrator for the Federal Civil Defense Administration, Reggion 7. The men are standing in front...
View of the Alaska Civil Defense building in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Sign on top of building to the right reads State of Alaska Civil Defense.
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 of March thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and...
This photograph depicts, from left to right: Leonard Rowland, labor contractor; Chester Green, labor contractor; [Mr.] Liseley, civil defense officer; Sergeant Austin, first fire chief of the Big Delta Volunteer Fire Department; Gus Naylor, local...
This photograph depicts Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy using the Alaska Territorial Civil Defense telephone that was installed at the Pomeroys' homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska while her husband, Harold Pomeroy, served...
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy (at left), director of Alaska Territorial Civil Defense, Gus Naylor (middle), a local Civil Defense director, and Captain Dave P. Tollis (right) of the Alaskan Air Command cutting a ribbon to mark the opening...
Title from verso. Photograph of a Civil Defense team as they move cargo destined for aid and reconstruction after the 1964 earthquake and tsunami. Full caption from verso reads: "HQ AAC -- HEAVY CARGO -- Civil Defense members of the...
Full note reads: "The location was an area between Kobuk and Shungnak called Koochak - Old CAA station, Civil Aeronautics Administration. The white building is possibly where Richard and Florence Collins lived...
View of a Civil Aeronautics Administration party held at the Idle Hour Country Club in Spenard, Anchorage, on October 13, 1944. From verso: Left to right: B. Black, Marshall C. Hoppin (Alaska Regional Manager), Sam Kelly, H.T. "Til" Hopewell...
Children examining a Civil Air Patrol airplane, a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver. The logo on the tail reads "Civil Air Patrol USAF Auxiliary." The airplane number is "N4799C." A helicopter can be seen behind the airplane.
Signs at the landing strip reading "Civil Aeronautics Adminstration Department of Commerce Kotzebue" "Pilot Briefing" "Did you close your flight plan?" To the left of the signs is a passenger staircase. A plane can be seen taxiing near the upper...
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy (at left), director of Alaska Territorial Civil Defense, examining an engine with three other unidentified men. The engine sits in a wooden crate in front of a building. The photograph was taken in an...
This portrait photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy, director of Alaska Territorial Civil Defense from 1954-1958, pointing at a map of Alaska hung on a wall behind him. The photograph was taken circa 1954-1958 by an unidentified photographer.
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy (standing third from left) examining a fire truck at the fire department in Big Delta, Alaska in his role as director of Alaska Territorial Civil Defense, circa 1954-1958. There are four other men in the...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Title taken from caption. View of Civil Aeronautics Administration station at Cape Yakataga, Alaska. April 1957. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Donald Arthur Post.