Title from image. Photograph of the damage done to the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Skagway, Alaska after an attempted robbery. Caption reads: "Wreck of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Skaguay Alaska, bu a man whose name was unknown &...
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. Panoramic photograph of explosions just off shore during the attack of Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "Here in one of the first offical Dutch Harbor bombing photos released by the U.S. Navy is shown a series of bomb...
Title from verso. Photograph of men and equipment landing on Attu Island. Verso reads: "As American Troops landed on Attu, Aleutian Islands, May 11, 1943, a navy combat photography unit accompanied the first wave of American troops...
Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers up against a berm as a sniper in the hills harasses their position. Verso reads: "As American troops landed on Attu, Aleutian Islands, May 11, 1943, a navy combat photography unit accompanied the...
57 second film clip, black & white/silent, of a float plane arriving at the shore of Harding Lake. Sigmund Levanevsky and several others climb out of the plane, take a brief walk on the shore, greeting the crowd, and then climb back into the...
80 second, black & white/silent film clip. Clip shows a float plane arriving at the shore of Harding Lake. Sigmund Levanevsky and several others climb out of the plane, take a brief walk on the shore, greet the crowd, and then climb back into...
Title from photograph. Verso: Sept. 1924 a charter flight with engineer Ingram & Secretary Sandy Sanders on Attempted flight to Kantishna. Two days tried to get them in there but low ceiling persisted and I landed them here on a 300 ft. bar on...
Title from verso. "Wilkins. Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." In 1927 Explorer George Hubert Wilkins led the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic Expedition. This was Wilkins's second venture into the Arctic. The plane, a Stinson-Detroit biplane which was...
Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, flown by Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshi Koga in an attack on Dutch Harbor, June 4, 1942. His plane was hit on the oil line. When Koga attempted to land on Akutan Island, the wheels of his plane sank between hummocks,...
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...