40 second film clip, color/silent, of statehood celebration activities. Anchorage Daily Times front page. Reading Daily News Miner. Newsboy selling papers. United States and Alaska flags hung from upper stories of building. Fire engine in a...
Bonfire in celebration of statehood, on Park Strip, Anchorage, Alaska, with spectators. From verso: "Just set fire to the Statehood Bonfire pile. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." 1958. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Exterior of the Post Office and Courthouse building in Kodiak. A flagpole flies the U.S. flag and the Alaska state flag. Several trucks are parked outside the building or on the street in front. Original photograph size: 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inch.
Interior shot of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line construction camp dining hall in Driftwood Bay, Unalaska Island, 1958. Two men are standing at a counter; tables are set with dishes and cutlery. DEW Line sites were constructed in the Aleutian...
Looking across the street at the recently completed high school in Kodiak. Several cars are parked on the street outside the school. A flagpole flies the U.S. flag. Original photograph size: 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inch.
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...