View of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer (formerly the John C. Spencer) from the deck of the cutter Ariadne. Both the Spencer and Ariadne were waiting offshore from Anangula Island (also Ananiuliak Island) for the seas to subside so that they...
View of temporary construction at Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colony in Palmer, Alaska, with Chugach Mountains in background. From verso: "Palmer. 1936 Nov. Last of temporary construction. Chugach Mountain[s] in...
View of First Street, Cordova, Alaska. Businesses shown include Spokane Bar, Montana Bar, Keystone Laundry, Cordova House, Stockholm, Wellington, First and Last, and Frame's Cafe. May 1910. Original photograph size: 5" x 7".
View of First Federal Savings and Loan and other buildings in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. Sign on bank reads: "First Federal Savings. Last day." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. 1968-1969? Photographer: William L. McNutt.
View of Alaska Department of Highways sign for Wrangell Mountains in Southcentral Alaska. Sign reads: "Alaska Department of Highways. Wrangell Mountains. The mountains as viewed to the east are, left to right: Mt. Sanford, 16,210 feet, 52 miles...
Verso: This tree stump at Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska is all that remains of what must have been a mammoth tree that was sheared off at the onset of the last ice age. As the glacier receded the stump appeared as a reminder of the dramatic...
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...
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: Ann Chambers, Nome's Midnight Sun Festival Queen, snips the ribbon at the dedication ceremonies held at the Federal Aviation Agency's new Flight Service Station building at the Nome airport. Assisting with the ribbon cutting are (L) James...
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...
Verso: "The cake of ice left on beach this spring in front of our house. We got ice to fill our ice house out of a cake like this. You can imagine what a river 500 yards wide, running and jamming full of such cakes is like. It is quite a sight....
Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russians to the United States of America; Concluded March 30, 1867.