This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy (at left), director of Alaska Territorial Civil Defense, Gus Naylor (middle), a local Civil Defense director, and Captain Dave P. Tollis (right) of the Alaskan Air Command cutting a ribbon to mark the opening...
Title taken from verso. Wendell P. Kay, attorney and candidate for Alaska governor speaking in Anchorage, Alaska. From information with photo: "Publicity at his home prior to announcing governor race." 1966. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original...
Title taken from image. Front Row (l. to r.):Frank S. Gordon, Jas V. Davis, W.J. Dowd, John McCormick, Chester T. Spencer, Harvey J. Smith, Edw. D. Coffey, Garnet W. Martin. Back Row (l. to r.):Wallace Porter, J.P. Anderson, Jesse D....
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. ...
Letters regarding the Tanana Chiefs Council of 1915.
Contents: Letter from Commissioner Elmer E. Brown, November 1, 1910. Letter from George E. Boulter, January 31st, 1911. Letter from L.A. Kalbach, March 15, 1911. ...
Title from verso. Verso: A study group visiting the Rampart Canyon site of a proposed hydroelectric development project on the Yukon River are shown at Texas Creek Bridge. Across the stream is the camp set up by Army Engineers this winter as a...
Title taken from caption. Group photograph of people attending the statehood ceremony for the inclusion of Hawaii as the 50th state at Punchbowl Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii. Identified people in the front row are left to right: Mrs Lorrin P....
Also written on photo, "Bro. [Brother] Snow is D.S.D. L.O.O.M. 1428. P.W.P. 207 F.O.E. and Hist. P.O.[A.?] 5." Group photo of men, women and two boys. There's a Pioneers of Alaska sign hanging on the left wall;...
Photograph of the Grand Igloo Pioneers of Alaska taken at Valdez, 1926. Idendification may be wrong and may be the Sitka Pioneers Home. Verso, left to right: 1st row; A. J. Diamond, Erik Forss, H. R. Shepard, J. J. McDonald, C. J. Todd, 2nd...
Group gathers outside the Richardson Roadhouse during Gov. Bone's trip. Visible are Governor Bone and his family, Bob Hickman and his wife, Judge & Mrs Clegg, Ben Eielson, Vide Gaustad and O. P. Gaustad.
Title taken from caption. " 'San Jose' Party. Geo Brandeberry, Sam Dickenson, Tom Hardy, Nick Wilson and my self. The day I left our cabin for Valdez, Feb 1 - 99." Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. 127. Reproduced from glass plate."