Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Aerial view of docks and military post area, Shemya, Alaska. From front: "2CS4MA - Shemya Alaska. 33-7-16-1500-12-100000 - Docks & post area (secret)." From information with photo: "Shemya, Alaska. Docks and post area (secret). Breakwaters and...
Title taken from front. View of first school in Valdez, Alaska, with students and teachers standing in front. Also from front: "1st old City Hall." From information with photo: "1. Alice Liedy - Governor Liedy's daughter (not a gov[ernor] of...
Title taken from verso. View of people standing on front porch at home of engineer and Alaska Engineering Commission Chairman William C. Edes, at Second Avenue and Christensen Road in Anchorage, Alaska. Those pictured include: William C. Gerig...
Title taken from front. Aerial view of Kodiak, Alaska. From verso: "Alaska's oldest settlement. Established in 1792. 1. Largest bear in the world are found on Kodiak Island. 2. World famous king crab were first discovered and processed in Kodiak....
View of houses near corner of Broadway and Sherman Streets, Valdez, Alaska. From verso: "Left to right, 1. Eagen 1st Debney house, 2. Date then Carvey house, 3. Crary Boys, Carney's then Will Crary's house, 4. Later Bunnell's house, Church...
Title supplied by cataloger. Slide labeled, 'Deliver fish to tender - Scow.' Slide printed 8/1964. Slide carousel labeled, 'Homesteading #1.' Original format: 35mm color slide
The history, beginning with primitive Alaska Eskimo life, includes some "book facts," personal anecdotes, and stories told by others. It describes life in the northern regions from early times until ca. 1937-1940 when the history was written. ...
Group of men, identified as: 1. to r.: 3 native herders, Tautak - chief herder, Middaugh, G.J. Lomen, Sam Taggart, G.A.P., Roy Morrison, Jafet Lindeberg and J. Batchelder.
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. ...
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska…….May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
ASL-MS4-2-3b-5 Item 5 (acc. # 10213) Physical description: [68]p. Interpretation by Lydia Black, 1975 The following are stitched together as one booklet.
1. Title page bears the following inscription. File Re....
Original photograph of the Committee of Fifteen - Having
charge of the Anti-Chinese Agitation in Tacoma, Washington Territory, 1885. 1. A. U. Mills
2. M. Kaufman
3. E. G. Bacon
4. John Budlong
5. Jacob Ralph
6. H. A....
Photographer's number A.1. Alaska Electric Light and Power Company (AEL&P), Juneau, acquired the Alaska - Juneau Gold Mining Company properties, including their photographs of the mining operation, construction of Salmon Creek Dam, etc.