(6:08 min.) (12 of 20) How train/ship developed--Mr. Skinner--first container shipping industry in the world--Too expensive for American flagged ships--City of New Orleans (Ship) Renamed Alaska (Ship)--denied American registry--Clair Engle...
(2:49 min.) (11 of 20) How train/ship developed--Mr. Skinner--first container shipping industry in the world--Too expensive for American flagged ships--City of New Orleans (Ship) Renamed Alaska (Ship)--denied American registry--Clair Engle...
(4:27 min.) (07 of 09) 7. Most wanted statehood A majority in Fairbanks and Anchorage wanted statehood. Southeast was the only part of the state with reservations. One delegate resigned just prior to ratification because he objected to a...
Title taken from verso. Dr. Joshua J. Wright, Alaska legislator (1970-1972) and Alaska's first black dentist, writing at desk in Anchorage, Alaska. Sept. 8, 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 5" x 4".
Title from sleeve. Barechested man sits astride a horse and holds a large bow. A quiver of arrows is attached to the saddle. Photographer's number: 8543. 4x5 B&W negative
Title from sleeve. Legislator Robert R. Blodgett addresses a legislative meeting. Other audience members are seated around him. Photographer's number: 6326. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Title from sleeve. Senator Ted Stevens and Robert Ziegler, holding a cigarette and wearing a trenchcoat, stand indoors. Photographer's number: 19048. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Formal portrait of a young John Coghill, a Republican from Nenana, Alaska, who served as Lieutenant Governor 1990-1994; he was a territorial legislator, a state senator, and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention
Formal portrait of John Coghill, a Republican from Nenana, Alaska, who served as Lieutenant Governor 1990-1994; he was a territorial legislator, a state senator, and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention
Formal studio portrait of Arthur Shoup of Sitka, a member of the First and Second Alaska Territorial Legislatures; author of the Woman Suffrage Bill, passed March 21, 1913.
A Wisconsin legislator and U.S. Attorney, Delaney moved to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush and served as the first mayor of Juneau, Alaska, from 1900 to 1901
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...