View of Seward, Alaska in earlier days. Bank building is on the right, Dr. Sleem's residence and office is on the left, and Federal Building is in the background. View is facing east. ca. 1906. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of...
Title taken from creators notes. Notes read: "In front of the Model Cafe on 2nd Street. The civilian in the hat was a Swede who serviced the oil heating stoves that kept our barracks warm. Lavery's grocery is seen across the street with the...
Political cartoon depicting strings attached to Alaska by federal bureaus and anchored to the Capitol Building in Washington D. C. [Reportedly drawn while Jessen was in Cordova, not as part of Jessen's Weekly. Caption reads "Cordova - Alaska...
Verso: Alaska's William Randolph Hearst Scholars--Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) congratulates (left), Loren Leman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Leman of Ninilchik and Tom Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Anderson of Anchorage who were chosen...
Relief shown by spot heights. Shows locations of various government offices, Native schools, hospitals, reindeer stations, national parks, national monuments, and areas mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey. Includes legend. Inset: Aleutian...
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Federal Highway Act of 1964 with an audience of lawmakers. Senator Gruening visible second from right in the front row.
Caption: Mr. and Mrs. Tony Joule of Kotzebue visit with Senator E. L. Bartlett in the Capitol after Mr. Joule was presented an award marking his 40 years service with the federal government in Alaska. The Joules now live in Anchorage. Mr. Joule...
[A check for $5,168,967.71 is presented to Governor Egan by Lyle F. Gones, Chief of the Bureau of Land Management, Division of Engineering. The Check represents Alaska's share of Federal Revenues obtained from public lands under the Mineral...
Title from caption. Photograph of a totem pole in Ketchikan. Caption reads: "One of the finest carved totem poles in S. Eastern Alaskan [sic], situated at Ketchikan. These totem poles represent the history of the tribe that erect them &...
(5:11 min) (27 of 27) Final Comments
Winter road north from Eagle and Circle to the DEW line. Built by Alaska Freightline. LaTourneau trains, made for the desert, were not very successful here. Less paperwork makes for more fun in the...
(4:03 min.) (02 of 08) 2. Statehood convention Issue revolved around who should be in control of Alaska's resources, the territory or the Federal Government. Finds that Alaska Department of Fish & Game manages far better than Federal Fish...
(3:03 min.) (04 of 08) 4. Statehood changes Should be locals in control rather than those in Washington. Clem states we were given control over the natural and biological resources in the state and then the federal government reneged with...
57 second, black & white with audio track, film clip of Jay Hammond discussing the difference between the sightseeing tourist to the sport hunter/fisher before the JFSLUPC (Joint Federal State Land Use Planning Commission) at Naknek, Alaska. Jay...
From a draft announcement: "The Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG) Certificate pictured here is to be presented this year to all former members of the ATG who can be located, Governor Egan announced today. The ATG was formed in 1942 after the Alaska...
37 second film clip, black & white with audio track of, Jay Hammond testifying before the Joint Federal State Land Use Planning Commission while mayor of Bristol Bay Burough. Jay states that local residents do not want a road from Anchorage to the...
59 second film clip, black & white with audio track of Jay Hammond, Mayor of Brisol Bay Borough, expressing his appreciation of the Joint Federal State Land Use Planning Committee (JFSLUPC) at Naknek, May 4, 1973.
Verso: Russ Hart (L), former station manager for the Federal Aviation Agency at Nome receives a retirement certificate from Virgil Knight who represented Allen D. Hulen, the FAA Assistant Administrator for Alaska. Hart completed 30 years of...
Verso: Bob Harwood, city council member of Nome (second from left) delivers address at dedication ceremonies of the Federal Aviation Agency's Flight Service Station, held last Saturday in Nome, as a feature of this year's Midnight Sun Festival. He...
Verso: Mr. Eugene Farland operates the Air Ground Console in the new Federal Aviation Agency Flight Service Station, at Nome, which was dedicated last Saturday. This was a feature of the Midnight Sun Festival. Among those who visited the new...