Verso: Farewell gift to Major General C. F. Necrason, Alaskan Air Command commander, is presented by Col. Stephen W. Henry, Eielson AFB commander. Senator Gruening and Congressman Rivers attended the reception for Gen. Necrason at Eielson AFB,...
Verso: Major General C. F. Necrason, Alaskan Air Command commander, pins the Exceptional Service Award on Mr. Robert J. Fischer, Pt. Barrow, Alaska, civilian pilot.
Verso: Senator E. L. Bartlett, Major General James C. Jensen, and Major General George A. Carver, listen intently during a briefing about logistial activities of the Army Forces Headquarters during the Alaskan Command's winter training exercise,...
Verso: Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) meets with two members of the "Spenard Lions," one of the two Anchorage hockey teams in Washington, D.C. this week for the Capitol Invitational Hockey Tournament, just before winning their first game. The...
Verso: Senator Ralph Moody, chairman of the Alaska Legislative Council, accepts scroll recognizing Alaskan Statehood presented to the Alaskan Delegation to the National Legislative Conference at Boston, Mass., September 1958.
Verso: These native Alaskans successfully completed an 18-months course in Industrial and Communications Electronics and were graduated August 10 from the RCA Institutes in New York. All are members of a pilot educational project sponsored by the...
Verso: Thomas Moffitt, Matanuska Valley dairy farmer, left, becomes Alaska's first borrower as the Federal Land Bank of Spokane inaugurates its credit service in the 49th state. Here Moffitt receives the bank's draft from J. J. Hurley of Palmer,...
Verso: Thomas Moffitt, Matanuska Vally dairy farmer, left, becomes Alaska's first borrower as the Federal Land Bank of Spokane inaugurates its credit service in the 49th state. Here Moffitt receives the bank's draft from J. J. Hurley of Palmer,...
Verso: William Earnest Beltz, a 47-year-old native of the Eskimo Village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated transition from territorial to State government. Beltz's father, a native of...
View of a building on Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Sign above building reads: "Eielson Air Terminal. 500th AB Wing. Alaskan Air Command". From front: "Eielson AFB". Photo taken between 1960 and 1979. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
View of a car leaking water after it was apparently pulled from a submerged road somewhere in Southcentral Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. A woman stands by the road on the left. A guard rail is visible. Area is tentatively identified...
View of a damaged building, somewhere in Southcentral Alaska, after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Sign to the right of the upper door reads Alaskan Hotel Home of Alaskan Hospitality. Sign on the left of the upper door reads Texan Urinal. Partial...
View of a map of Alaska on stage during the March 28, 1958 White Alice Communications System dedication in the Talkeetna Theater on Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, as seen from the audience. The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a...
View of a person in a rescue basket being hoisted up to a U.S. Air Force helicopter. Crewmen can be seen operating the hoist from the hatch of the helicopter. From verso: "That others may live - An H-21 helicopter of the 5017th Operations Sq....
View of a street and buildings damaged somewhere in Southcentral Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Image includes a man near the center, trucks, and electric/telephone lines.
View of Alaska Department of Highways sign with facts about Alaska posted on Alaska Highway, possibly near border between Alaska and Canada. Sign reads: "Alaska Department of Highways. Facts on Alaska. Alaska is twice as large as Texas, covering...
View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction camp at mile 51, Southcentral Alaska, with railroad tracks and piles of lumber in center. From front: "A.E.C. G1477." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G1477....