View of eight girls posing for a photograph on board the ship, North Star, in Alaska. From verso: "Native girls on North Star - going to Wrangell Institute, an Alaska Native Service advanced school." Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x...
Title page in British atlas: maps and charts accompanying the Case of Great Britain, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
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. Group of newsboys gathered on porch of building, Skagway, Alaska, with man with black bear at far right. From verso: "L to R. 1- ; 2. Abe Stein; 3. Brick Top?; 4. Orthmez; 5. Cotton Top Jenson; 6. Hawksworth or Al Hofhurst;...
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...
vi, [2], 293 p. front, XVIII pl., 2 fold. maps. 28 cm.
"This work is plagiarized from the prof. Sir C. L. M. von Giesecke's Lectures and from Generla Vallancey."--Allibone, Crit. dictionary of English literature, v. 2.
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. ...
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. ...
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....
Celebration of Statehood - July 4, 1959. Gathering at Juneau Library. Description: Flag raising ceremony, a line of young women in pastel dresses, a brass band, balloons, a photographer on top of a car in the foreground. Photographer's number 2.