Portrait photograph of W. W. Laws. This was taken when he served as a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention, held in Fairbanks at the University of Alaska, November 8, 1955 - February 6, 1956.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Panel title: Map of Nome, York and Klodike, Alaska and Northwest Territories, with information on routes, outfits and other topics of interest. Oriented with north to the upper right. Insets: From S.E....
Shows land and sea routes to locations on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Cover title: Map of Sumner Peninsula, northwestern Alaska : including the mining districts of Cape Nome, Port Clarence, Cape York, Arctic, Kougarok, Good Hope, Council City,...
Image of the heads of the 3rd Division of the Alaska Highway Patrol affixed to a holiday greeting card. Officers are depicted as Santa, elves, and angels and identified by last name. Card reads: Though exiled to enforce the laws, we still believe...
This image shows article X of constitution of the state of Alaska which deals with the local government. This government (borough system) was created to address certain conditions that were unique to Alaska. Article XI sets guidelines for the...
Title taken from image. Verso: Speaker: Wm A. Egan, Asst Cleark: Flora Woodworth, Clerk: Margaret Grisham, Sgt at Arms: Doug Wahto. Front row (l. to r.): C. Chester Carlson, Stanley McCutcheon, Frank Johnson, Vernon Metcalfe, Geo. P....
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska...
Verso: Front row (l. to r.): Lew Joy, Rob Hoopes, Maurice Johnson, Steve Vukovich, Joe Coble. Second row (l. to r.): Wm Egan, Ed Anderson, W.W. Laws, Ludwig Ost. Third row (l. to r.): G.E. Almquist, Harry Newell, James Nolen, Dewey Anderson,...
Sec. of Interior Walter Hickel, far left, meeting with people involved in Alaska land claims dispute. From left to right: Tim Wallis, President Fairbanks Native Association; Charles Edwardsen, Executive Director Arctic Slope Native Association;...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
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...