(2:37 min.) (01 of 12) Ada's Background and Statehood Nome -- born; education -- Nome; Boston Tea Party -- learned in fourth grade; "taxation without representation"; Statehood; married -- aviation in Alaska; three children -- raised;...
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...
A girl with a dog hitched to a decorated wagon with a little girl inside waits to be in the Fourth of July parade in Seward, Alaska. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
A man delivers groceries in a cart pulled by a dog on Fourth Ave. in Seward, Alaska. Resurrection Bay is in the background. Sign on building at right reads: "Jack's." ca. 1910-1915. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x...
A view of the Brown and Hawkins store as well as some of the other remaining buildings along Fourth Avenue in Seward after a major fire. The remains of some of the burned buildings are in the foreground.
Al Ferrin from Hope, Alaska stands with dog team and sled in front of the Seward Commercial Co. and Jack's on Fourth Avenue in Seward, Alaska. ca. 1910. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".