Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
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,...
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...
Title taken from image. Side view of building with school at left, background. Inscription in image: In 1910 Congress made provision for the erection of a $200,000 Public Building at Juneau. A site embracing an entire block in the heart of...
Two people in a canoe aside what appears to be a half-sunk canoe. The sun is shining brightly on the still water, and there's a boat in the water to the left. Two houses are to the right near the shore.
Title taken from verso. View of area set aside for building machine shops at Alaska Engineering Commission railroad yards near Ship Creek in Anchorage, Alaska, with railroad tracks at left, piles of lumber at right, and Government Hill just visible...
Title taken from caption. "9206 -- (23) In 1897 Dr. J. Jones commanded a lucrative practice in Evanston, Ill., and Mr. G. B.Winter was one of the successful grocers of the same city. About this time the instigator and promoter of Klondike Gold...
Title taken from caption. "9208 -- (26) The White men who made packing a business on the Dyea trail in 1898 carried from 75 to 150 pounds at a time, while the Indian packers carried from 100 to 250 pounds each. At short intervals on the left of...
Title taken from caption. "11507 -- (5) The stories we read of life in the Arctic usually persuade us to believe that only the most robust persons should venture into those latitudes, and then only when well provided with an ample wardrobe of...
Title taken from caption. View of a path leading to a small log cabin aside a pond on Woody Island (known earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915. Photographer: B.B....