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...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a woman standing in front of a building that appears to be a train station, a few men sit behind her. A sign on the building read "Coll" this may mean "Coll[ege, Alaska]".
Postcard postmarked from Cordova, Alaska in July 1909 and addressed to Mr. L.J. Clemons, Ridgeway, Tex. [Texas]. Written on the verso, "July 17, 09. Dear folks at home, I supose [suppose] you are feeling mean at me for...
(6:03 min) (15 of 27) Road building philosophy
Were the roads necessary? Roads were built to open up the country. Another philosophy pushed for more planning. Permanence of communities was always in question. People still needed...
06 Crash took six weeks to repair aircraft (4:58 min.)(06 of 09)
In the mean time took a job teaching in McGrath that keep her busy through the winter. In the spring went to lower 48 to get an airplane. In Seattle went to Northern Commercial...
The Fort Gibbon baseball team is pictured field-side. The caption reads "The Fort Gibbon Team. At Fairbanks, Alaska. July 4, 1913." At bottom right is a signature that looks like "Clemans" or "Clemons", which may mean Basil Edwin Clemons. All of...
Mageik, one of Father Bernard Hubbard's dogs, on board the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route from Seattle to Alaska. From May's journal, dated May 23rd: "There are two of Father Hubbard's dogs on board, Magiek and Wolf, they weigh 100 and...
Title taken from caption. View of Aleš Hrdlička, Captain Noble G. Ricketts, and the Executive Officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa traveling in a launch to the village of Nikolskoe on Bering Island. From May's journal, dated July...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
View of welcome sign at Bettles Field, Alaska. Sign reads: "Welcome to Bettles Field, Alaska. 66 [degrees]-54' N. 151 [degrees]-31' W. 35 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Population 51. Elevation 665'. Lowest recorded temp[erature] Jan. 1947 -65...
Title taken from front. Map of Alaska Engineering Commission railroad route from Anchorage to Chickaloon in Alaska. Also from front: "Department of the Interior, Alaskan Engineering Commission, Anchorage, Alaska. Compiled from the following...
Audio file of a 45 RPM Phonographic Record of Alaska Flag Song. Total running time: 3 minutes, 49 seconds. Words by Marie Drake, music by Elinor Dusenbury. Original record issued by Royal Records, Douglas, Alaska, ca. 1940's-1950's. Visual elements...
Title taken from image. Side view of building with school at left, background. Inscription in image: In 1910 Congress made provision for the erection of a $200,000 Public Building at Juneau. A site embracing an entire block in the heart of...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...