"Senator John F. Kennedy, accompanied by Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., a member of the candidate's official party, officially opens his "new Frontiers" campaign at the state fair, and is greeted by Matanuska Valley homesteader. J. V Kruscavage, right. ...
Title taken from caption on Album. A close- up shot of George C. Thomas Memorial Library which was Fairbanks' only public library for 68 years. Named for a man who had never been to Fairbanks, Thomas was a Philadelphia banker who once saw a...
Title from caption in album. CRN Railway "Million Dollar Bridge" over Copper River near Cordova. Steel rails and steel girders are shown in perspective. [Officially known as the Miles Glacier Bridge.]
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod. Sign in front of log building. The Iditarod Trail officially became a National Historic Trail in 1978. Slide printed 9/1982. Original format: 35mm color slide
Title from article, published in 1989, about the first officially sponsored derby, held in Juneau in 1947 Note: Dick Harris won the first Golden North Salmon Derby with a 38-pound, 4-ounce salmon
Title taken from slide mount. Base Ketchikan was established in 1920 as a Lighthouse Service Depot and officially became part of the Coast Guard in 1940.
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...