Title from caption: "Big Gerstle River Bridge - Alaska Hwy., Alaska."
View of trestle bridge over Gerstle River, along Alaska Highway. According to Alaska Statute 35.40.085, "Bridge number 503 on the Alaska Highway over the Gerstle River...
From a draft announcement: "The Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG) Certificate pictured here is to be presented this year to all former members of the ATG who can be located, Governor Egan announced today. The ATG was formed in 1942 after the Alaska...
Title taken from caption. "9291 -- The good ship "Queen," after passing the "Seminole," sped on to Skagway, discharged her freight and passengers and then returned to Portage Cove just as the reindeer ship was dropping anchor, on March 27th....
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy, director of Alaska Territorial Civil Defense, handing an award certificate to Richard L. Smith in September 1956. The award reads, "Civil Defender of the Month Award Presented to Richard L. Smith for the...
From verso: "Orah Dee Clark Day August 25, 1962." Robert B. Clifton presenting Orah Dee Clark with a "scroll of honor" from the Cook Inlet Historical Society. This took place at her 8_th [sic] birthday party at the Providence Hospital, Anchorage,...
Verso: Senator Ralph Moody, chairman of the Alaska Legislative Council, accepts scroll recognizing Alaskan Statehood presented to the Alaskan Delegation to the National Legislative Conference at Boston, Mass., September 1958.
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. ...
The pipeline project received added recognition during February, when the Senior Project Manager of the Pipeline portion of the project, Frank P. Moolin, Jr., was named "Construction's Man of the Year" by Engineering News-Record magazine.
Accession Number: 81-3-5 Descriptive Narrative: "Gold" medal (Novadel) with Man's head (Alexander I ) on one side; Russian inscription on reverse. Contains nickel and copper with small amounts of gold and silver. Inscription: To Tamari...