Title taken from front. View of 100 yard dash race during holiday celebrations, Valdez, Alaska, with spectators lining the street. Businesses shown include Seattle Hotel, Valdez Market, and Tony's. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical...
1 v. (47 p.), handwritten, in Russian script. Tells the story of Bishop Innocent from 1827 when as Joann Veniaminov he came as a new missionary to Unalaska through 1842, when he returned to Alaska as a Bishop. Further volumes not found....
ASL-MS004-2-3b-5
Item 5
(acc. # 10213)
Physical description: [68]p.
Interpretation by Lydia Black, 1975
The following are stitched together as one booklet.
Title taken from front. Miners standing in front of slag heap at Alta Mining Company operation at Otter Creek on Third Beach Line, Nome, Alaska, with tent at left. May 1908. Photographer: Goetze.
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.