(2:20 min.) (02 of 12) Toast Mistress Club and the Statehood Issue debating committee; debate -- Statehood issue; rules; politics, religion; appoint a committee to study issue of Statehood; too political -- couldn't study Statehood; Dr. Moberg...
Article describes the events of February 5, 1945; debate on the floor of the Alaska Territorial Senate regarding the "Equal rights" bill, House bill 14. Roy and Elizabeth Peratrovich testify about conditions in Alaska, along with statements from...
Article describes the events of February 5, 1945; debate on the floor of the Alaska Territorial Senate regarding the "Equal rights" bill, House bill 14. Roy and Elizabeth Peratrovich testify about conditions in Alaska, along with statements from...
Title taken from caption. "Copyright, 1897, By Keppler & Schwarzmann J. Ottmann Lith. [Lithography] Co. Puck Building New York". This color cartoon drawing/poster captures a large man towering over a mining site while digging and seemingly...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, 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 thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and...
Title taken from news clipping. Photograph used in a February 17, 1959 issue of The Washington Daily News. The news paper clipping also had a capion that read: "A push for Washington 'home rule' got under way this morning when two models...
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Shows the Aleutian Islands including Kodiak, most of Cook Inlet and Bristol Bay. "Ispravlena s opisi shturmana Vasil'eva, proizvedenoi v 1829 g. Amerik. Berega ot rieki Kuskokvima do...
A crowd of people line a street to watch a dogsled team led (perhaps) by Capt. Crimmins start the All Alaska Sweepstakes Sled Dog Race. Photos UAF-1985-122-46 to UAF-1985-122-48 may be of the same activity.
Caption reads: "Canadian-Arctic Expedition. Vilhjalmar [Vihjalmur] Stefansson in command. Outfitting at Darling and Dean, Nome, Alaska, 1913." A group of men and their dogs and dogteams gather in front of the store...
Title from caption. Photograph of Mrs. Jack Rice reading an issue of the Yukon Valley News while on a picnic. She is leaning against a fur blanket or a pile of furs. Narrative in photo album read: "Mrs, Rice at a picnic near our cabin."
89 second, color with sound, film clip. Title from title frame. From television series "Alaska On-Line: Conversations with 'Red' Boucher". UAA/APU Consortium Library catalog indicates: "Alaska On-Line began as the idea of H.A. 'Red' Boucher...
77 second, color with sound, film clip. Title from title frame. From television series "Alaska On-Line: Conversations with 'Red' Boucher". UAA/APU Consortium Library catalog indicates: "Alaska On-Line began as the idea of H.A. 'Red' Boucher...
(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...
(5:35 min.) (06 of 08) 6. Urban-rural divide The divide was not an issue until the majority of population moved to the city. Clem sees states outside Alaska as being willing to take advantage of Alaska's resources. Diane thinks that many...
(4:49 min.) (02 of 09) 2. Important issues. Les was interested in statehood and getting a fair share for Alaska; he was less interested in specific issues. Proponents of statehood wanted to get out from control of the Department of the...