The Alaska ferry, Wickersham, was purchased by the State of Alaska from the Swedish Stena Line for $6,960,000.00 in April, 1968, having only been built and in service for 6 months. Originally named M.V. Stena Brittanica, the ferry left Gothenberg,...
"For my friend Ernest Gruening. Twenty years of close association and the handclasp is still naturally firm! From Bob Bartlett, Washington D C, June 27, 1959."
Title taken from caption: "Ship Star of Alaska at anchor in Chignik Bay." View of the ship "Star of Alaska" docked in Chignik Bay, Alaska. The ship started out as the "Balclutha" on January 15, 1887 under British registry, and in 1899 it...
View of sign on Atlantic Richfield Company and Humble Oil and Refinery Company office building at Sagavanirktok River in Northern Alaska. Sign reads: "Sag River State No. 1. Atlantic Richfield-Humble. This well is the confirmation well of the...