"Through the chow lines goes Governor William A. Egan of Alaska as he lunched with noncommissioned officers in charge of the 63 village detachments which make up the 1st and 2nd Scout Battalions of the Alaska National Guard. With the governor are...
Title from verso. Photograph of militia unit [ATG] marching. Verso reads: "On the march -- Alaska has been a U.S. possession for 79 years but the influence of the early Russian colonists still remains. Here at Sitka, Territorial Guards...
"Pvt Camille Joseph (left) and Sp3 Alex Patrick (Alaknuk, Alaska) of Co. "A" 2nd Scout Bn., Alaska National Guard are marking targets during practice fire at the Guard's annual encampment at Ft. Richardson, Alaska."
Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG) and military personnel store 600 meals of emergency rations M,P,F in metal containers with socks, gloves and ammunition.
"Rifle practice at twenty below zero. Members of the 1st Scout Battalion of the Alaska National Guard on the rifle range during the Guard's Encampment at Fort Richardson, Alaska. Alaska guardsmen must be prepared to fight in all kinds of weather."
Title taken from verso. "National guardsmen transported by skyvan [illegible] 1960's." Writing on the airplane reads: "[Wien] Consolidated Airlines", "N4917" and "Skyvan". A small sign on the right hand corner reads "Northern Consolidated...
Photograph taken on Thanksgiving Day in Barrow, Alaska showing Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG) and U. S. Military personnel burying supplies in the frozen arctic tundra.
Jones, Joe (artist). Size: 10.75 x 8.5 in. Medium: Charcoal on paper Portrait, human head, male. Signed lower right. This is a portrait of the officer who inducted the Eskimos into the Territorial Guard and passed out weapons as he went from...
"SP3 Johnny L. Deston, Engr. Service Company, Ft. Richardson, Alaska, (cook) talks with KP's peeling potatoes (l-r) John Gregory of Bethel, Alaska, Pvt Louis Beebe of Eek, Alaska, and Ham Cleveland of Eek, Alaska. All the Kp's are memebers of the...
Title by indexer. A group of Alaska Native militia men entering an aircraft. They may be in the Alaska National Guard or Alaska Territorial Guard. The airplane's side reads "[Northern] Consolidated Airlines".
Verso: First Sergeant Kermin Gutierrez receives the Eisenhower Trophy from Governor Ernest Gruening on behalf on Company D. of the 208th Infantry Battalion (Sep) during Governor's Day review at Juneau subport. The Sitka unit is the first Alaska...
Photograph taken at noon in Barrow, Alaska on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. A military officer swears four Alaska Territorial Guardsmen (ATG) in for an assignment.
"Eskimo Scouts received awards Saturday from Alaska Governor William A. Egan (left). Gov. Egan prepares to present the Eisenhower trophy for the state's most outstanding National Guard unit to Sgt. George Whitman, Mekoryuk, representing Co. B, 2nd...
Title taken from caption. Two National Guardsmen armed and on duty standing near garbage can bonfire after March 27, 1964 earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska. Also from caption: "Anchorage, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. ca. March-April 1964....