(3:16 min) (03 of 17) Army, teaching and Fish & Game Trained in Sta. Maria California (Moffitt Field) finished in 1942. James C. Ryan old instructor talked about jobs. Got out of Army during WWII to teach school, took Gov. Gruening and Rep....
1957 Political cartoon of the head of a person who appears to be Adlai Stevenson fishing to make Alaska and Hawaii the 49th and 50th states. The U.S. Capitol Building is in the background with a fisherman holding a fishing rod with the state of...
37 second, color/silent, film clip of President Eisenhower signing Alaska into statehood. Among the notables that can be identified are: President Dwight Eisenhower, Vice President Richard Nixon, Senator Bob Bartlet, Senator Ernest Gruening...
48 second film clip, black & white/sound. From title frame: "Gruening Collection, 1961-1964". Film shows Ernest Gruening telling Philleo Nash that the problems of Alaskan Natives differ according to geographic location.
64 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a University of Alaska graduation procession. People in academic gowns march out of a campus building, around the corner and into another building. The dignitaries include Ernest Gruening and Charles...
[Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett meets with America[n] Legion Boys Nation representatives from Alaska during the Boys Nation convention in Washington D.C. William Brewington, Jr., 16, from Anchorage, 3rd from left, and Carlton R. Smith, 17, of...
"At a Democratic Party given by John (Jack) Burns in Honolulu on November 25, 1959, we find (l. to r.): Mrs. Daniel Inouye, Sen. Gruening, Mrs. Sargent Kahanamoku and Mrs. Gruening. Seated is the hostess, Mrs. Burns."
"Camp "El Caribe" of the P. R. R. A. Mayaguez, May 1, 1937, showing the four brigades of laborers standing at attention during addresses made by Dr. Ernest Gruening, Chief of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, and Speaker Miguel A....
"For my friend Ernest Gruening. Twenty years of close association and the handclasp is still naturally firm! From Bob Bartlett, Washington D C, June 27, 1959."
"Presentation of the Col. Raul Esteves Cup to Camp "El Caribe" of the P. R. R. A.--the presentation is being made by Dr. Ernest H. Gruening, Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions and Administratory of the P. R. R. A. to...
"Sen. Ernest Gruening here is shown chatting with Dr. Abraham L. Sachar, Pres. of Brandeis Univ., on the occasion of the Presentation of an honorary degree to Senator Gruening"
"U. S. Delegation visiting Hawaii for Statehood Celebration, Nov. 25, 1959, paid an official call to Gen. I. D. White, at Fort Shafter, Oahu, Hawaii. Left to right: Lt. Gen. T.J.H. Trapnell, Dep. Cdr. in Chief & Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Pacific;...
"U.S. Senator from Alaska Bob Bartlett and Governor Wm. Egan pose together on the occasion of Bartlett's formal presentation to the State of the first 49-star flag to fly above the west front of the U. S. Capitol. The Senator holds a certification...
Accompanying new item: Alaska's governor, Mike Stepovich, and congressional advocates for statehood for the northern territory were jubilant Monday after Senate passage of the Alaskan statehood bill by vote of 64-20. Celebrating over a 49-star...