Title from accompanying notes. "On the summit of Mount Bona: Pete's pack in foreground. Looking down onto the Russell Glacier (base camp is down there somewhere)." Flags of the United States of America and Japan are furled together on...
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...
Caption: What Happens When A Territory Becomes A State? - In a radio interview with Washington correspondent Stuart Finley, offical representatives of the new country of Ghana and the 49th state of the United States discuss the similaritites and...
8 min, 12 sec film clip, color/sound. Senators Ted Stevens, Pete Domenici, and Lisa Murkowski speak and take testimony at a committee hearing on high energy prices. The first witness (continuing from part 1) is Lee Raymond (Chairman, CEO...
Selective relief shown by hachures. Inset: North America showing location of Alaska in relationship to the United States. Ancillary maps: Alaska Steamship Company's map of Southeastern Alaska Route, the Alaska Excursion Route -- [Southcentral and...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows west coast of North America, from California up to Prince William Sound. Insets: Klondike Region on enlarged scale -- Alaska [index map with an inset of the Aleutian Islands] -- Map showing the...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows west coast of North America, from California to Prince William Sound. Insets: Klondike region -- Map showing the country between Juneau & Ft. Selkirk. Ancillary map: Alaska [index map with an...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Engraved for the People's Publishing Co, Chicago, Ill." Page 95. Map does not include Nome or other towns established during the gold rush. North portion of S. America on verso. In color.
Title taken from front. View of Alaskan steamship stuck in ice jam on Bering Sea, with people on deck. From verso: "Made in America by Edw. H. Mitchell at San Francisco." Publisher's number 2011. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Postcard...
Shows Russian America and the western part of British possessions in what is now Canada. Relief shown by hachures. In top margin: Geografia Commerciale. Prime meridian: Ferro. No publication date, however, details of the outline of the north...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. At head of title: America West Coast. "From a Russian plan by Captn. Yassilieff [i.e. Vasiliev], 1850" "Additions by A.F. Boxer, master H.M.S. Alert, cmmr. Pearse, 1860." "Additions &...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of protecting and conserving the fisheries of the United States...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
Title from verso. Image shows a man leaning over a grave in the snow on the side of a mountain. A shovel and a wooden pole mark the location of the grave. Theodore Koven's body was discovered near the head of Muldrow Glacier on Mount McKinley...