Remainder of title: and recommending an appropriation for the payment for the territory ceded to the United States, and legislation for the occupation and government of the same. At head of title: 40th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex.Doc....
Remainder of title: , and conferring jurisdiction upon said court to hear, examine, adjudicate, and enter judgement upon any and all claims which said Indians may have, or claim to have, against the United States, and for other purposes.
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Remainder of title: and recommending an appropriation for the payment for the territory ceded to the United States, and legislation for the occupation and government of the same. At head of title: 40th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex.Doc....
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska...
Captain Emmons, United States Navy, was the commanding officier of the U.S.S Ossipee and was present at the transfer ceremony of Alaska from Russia to the United States on October 18, 1867.
[For complete ship's log from the voyage of the...
Title taken from caption. View of United States Marshal displaying his very large turnip. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Ingham while docked. Location is likely Valdez. Location is not noted with photo but several others in colection are labeled from Valdez. "U.S.C.G. Cutter Ingham" and "Dow 120"...
View of the exterior of the U.S. Post Office in Kotzebue, Alaska. There is a boy or girl on a bicycle, a U.S. maibox, and the U.S. flag flying on a flagpole in front of the building. The sign above the door reads "United States Post Office Kotzebue...
View of the U.S. Post Office in Valdez, Alaska. Behind it can be seen the local Foodland store. Sign above entrance reads: "United States Post Office Valdez Alaska". From front: "Valdez 1966". Photo taken in 1966. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Compiled for the Department of State at the U. S. Coast Survey Office, B. Peirce, Supt. 1867." Chas. G. Krebs, lithographer. Russian settlements underlined with red ink, Esquimaux settlements...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Ancillary map: Diagram of the Middle States; [North America]. "Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1867 by G. W. & C. B. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of...
Shows Russian and indigenous settlements. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Second edition, may 1867. Insets: Sitka and its approaches -- [North Pacific Ocean and adjacent countries].
Title from caption. Men, equipment and supplies land on the beach of one of the islands in the Andreanof Island group in the Aleutian Islands. Caption reads: "U. S. Army Troops occupy Andreanof Island group on Aleutians, only 125 miles...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Insets: [North America showing Alaska's location in relation to the United States] -- Diagram of the Middle States. Text on verso: "Province of Canada, no. 1. Alaska, late...
Title from monument text. "Carl Benjamin Eielson enlisted in the Air Service of the United States Army on January 17, 1917. In 1923 he piloted the first airplane in Alaska and in 1924 he flew the first government mail plane in that territory. He...
View of a woman and child entering the U.S. Post Office at Cold Bay, Alaska. A second woman can be seen approaching the entrance from the right of the photo. Signs read: "U.S. Post Office Cold Bay Alaska" and "RAA Passenger Terminal". The building...
Title taken from caption. View of the shipwrecked minesweeper USS Swallow. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.