Title taken from caption in manuscript of C.A. Bryant. Verso: Pay fair value to Bert Bryant - Endorsed without recourse, Clarence L. Andrews, Feb 11, 1935.
Title taken from slide mount. Sign in image: Wanted- dead or alive - mutilation or destruction of government property. Sign has the imprint of a bear paw.
Girls are standing just outside a fenced area. Basketball standard and storage tanks are in background. Sign in image: Experimental Garden Hoonah Government school.
Title taken from image. Attached clipping: Aboard the Government Cable Ship, "BURNSIDE", Wednesday, August 24, 1904, for the official splicing of the Two Sections of the Alaska Cable took place ten miles from Seattle on the return of the ship...
The first laws for the Harris Mining District (Juneau) were drawn up by Richard T. Harris on October 4, 1880, shortly after he and Joe Juneau made their initial discovery of gold. This set of laws was superceded by another code which was adopted...
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....
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 verso. Looking across the water from far shore, with a rowboat in foreground. Verso: An old government military station, 1868 now abandoned.
Title taken from image. Interview notes: Skins of four Mt. St. Elias blue bears, on the front of the Mission House. Paper bells above door: Ring me again. Third Liberty Loan. Buy US Government Bonds.
Title from image. Building stands very close to the location of Governor's mansion which was erected in 1911. See ASL-P87-0892. Sign in image: United States Public School.
Blanche Louise Preston McSmith represented Anchorage in the House of Representatives during the second session of the First Alaska Legislature in 1960. Mrs. McSmith was appointed by then-Governor William Egan in January of 1960 to fill out the...