Remainder of title: and recommending an appropriation for the payment for the territory ceded to the United States, and legislation for the occupation and government of the same. At head of title: 40th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex.Doc....
Verso: 3rd male face in back standing with a Roman collar is Reverend Leonard Ellinwood, M. Mus., Ph.D., specialist on the History of American Church Music. Photograph by The Library of Congress.
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...
Shows Smith Strait, Peabody Bay, and Kennedy Channel along Grinnell land [i.e. Grinnell Peninsula], Arctic Canada. Senate Ex. Doc., 1st session, 34th Congress ; no.1. "Ackerman Lith." Includes detailed tracks and location of caches, as well as...
Shows Baffin Bay, Melville Bay, Smith Strait, Peabody Bay & Kennedy Channel with corresponding coastlines of Greenland and Grinnell Land [i.e. Grinnell Peninsula]. Senate Ex. Doc., 1st session, 34th Congress ; no. 1. "Ackerman...
Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1872 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington." Pagination (4) is printed backwards. Decorative border. Hand colored. 35 X 28...
(7:03 min.) (06 of 27) Alaska Road Commission II
Commission members lived in Alaska, but had to get funding from Congress. Later got funding from the Departments of Commerce and Interior. Head of the commission was Richardson, a personable...
Title taken from caption. "28 Apr 45. WAC postal clerk."
Congress opened hearings in March 1943 on the conversion of the WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) into the Regular Army. The WAC bill was signed into law some four months...
Title taken from front. Group of men meet Charles August Sulzer, Delegate to Congress, near mile 160, Alaska Engineering Commission Railway, Lucilla Lake (later called Lake Lucile), Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1014." An...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
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...
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 ...
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...