Portrait photograph of Brenda Itta with the note: To our great and wonderful Senator of Alaska-Senator Gruening. Thank you for all you have done for the Eskimos. Sincerely, Brenda Itta.
Written on front: To my friend Ernest Gruening with best wishes William E. Beltz. Verso: William Ernest Beltz, a 47 year-old native of the Eskimo village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated...
Title from verso. Verso: Jumping For Joy-When the news of statehood reached the arctic village of Kotzebue, the town started jumping. Here pretty Laura Mae Beltz goes aloft, via walrus hide blanket toss, carrying a flag that will soon have a...
Verso: Taking the rank off the white man and putting it on the Eskimo. This was one of the best decisions I made. The white man in this picture turned out to be Bishop Gordon and the Eskimo's name David Frankson of Pt. Hope.
As the chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic Development of the Senate Public Works Committee, Senator Gruening inspects a housing project in Bethel while in the town to hold hearings.
Photograph taken at noon in Barrow, Alaska on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. A military officer swears four Alaska Territorial Guardsmen (ATG) in for an assignment.
Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG) and military personnel store 600 meals of emergency rations M,P,F in metal containers with socks, gloves and ammunition.
Photograph taken on Thanksgiving Day in Barrow, Alaska showing Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG) and U. S. Military personnel burying supplies in the frozen arctic tundra.
Group photograph of Alaska Natives with Army and Navy Personnel. Some of the group sit on furniture and some sit on caribou skin rugs. A pennent on the wall notes the Anchorage B.S.A. 2nd Alaskan Air Encampment. May be Alaska Territorial Guard...
Group of about 50 people pose outside a building for a winter photograph. The military men appear to be from the U.S. Navy. This is possibly a photograph of the Barrow, Alaska ATG [Alaska Territorial Guard].
E. L. Bob Bartlett with Stan McCutcheon (left) and Albert Kaloa, Jr. of Tyonek. Sen. Bartlett may be speaking about a senate bill pertaining to rural housing.
Caption: Senator Bob Bartlett and Mrs. Anfesia T. Shapswikoff of Unalaska who was guest of Resurrection Bay Historical Society for centennial week. She demonstrated the weaving of the incomparable Attu baskets. She is one of only 5 or 6 left who...
Title from cataloger's notes. Image shows an elderly man wearing glasses and a parka with fur ruff, standing near a dirt road and holding a baseball cap. Power lines, buildings, an automobile, oil drums and boating apparatus are visible in...