Accompanying new item: Alaska's governor, Mike Stepovich, and congressional advocates for statehood for the northern territory were jubilant Monday after Senate passage of the Alaskan statehood bill by vote of 64-20. Celebrating over a 49-star...
Accompanying new item: Alaska's three prospective congressmen, shown with optimistic car sticker, are (from left), Senator-elect Ernest Gruening, Representative-elect Ralph Rivers, and Senator-elect William Egan. The women are Mrs. Rivers (left)...
Caption: Proclamation - Gov. Mike Stepovich signs the proclamation setting the dates for Alaska's first state elections. Looking on and ready to attest the Governor's signature is Secretary of Alaska Waino E. Hendrickson. - Office of the Governor...
Design by Brown & Root of Houston and built at American Pipe and Construction Company at Vancouver, Wash., shipyards, the Trading Bay platform was towed to its permanent location in Cook Inlet, Alaska, for completion. The rugged jacket section was...
Designed to overcome the 30-foot tides, crushing ice, and strong currents of Alaska's Cook Inlet, this "monopod" drilling rig owned by Marathon Oil Company and Union Oil Company of California is positioned over the partner's discovery well at the...
From verso: "A $40 million pulp mill, which will produce 550 tons of high grade dissolving pulp daily will rise during 1952 at this site on Ward's Cove near Ketchikan."
From verso: "People, autos, trucks, and even boats board the Alaska State Ferry system at Prince Rupert in Canada's British Columbia en route for an Inside Passage trip to and through the Alaska panhandle. Ferry being loaded here is the TAKU, one...
From verso: "Serving the Prince William Sound area, the ferry M/V CHILKAT carries 59 passengers and 15 vehicles on its scheduled run between Valdez and Cordova."