The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Captain Emmons, United States Navy, was the commanding officier of the U.S.S Ossipee and was present at the transfer ceremony of Alaska from Russia to the United States on October 18, 1867.
[For complete ship's log from the voyage of the...
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,...
Descriptive Narrative: Double-headed eagle plaque of cast bronze. Crowns on each eagle head, symbols of power held in the talons; on eagle's breast is octagon shape with figure of St George. One wing tip is missing.
Exhibition: object traveled...
Descriptive Narrative: Round medallion of gold-toned metal hanging from an orange and black striped ribbon.
Label: (c.1988) RUSSIAN-AMERICAN HERTIAGE MONTH The United States Congress designated October 1988 as Russian-American Heritage Month,...
Descriptive Narrative: Tea strainer of gold-washed silver.
Description: silver
Made: Russia
Notes: Manufactured by Peter Uhrwader, a Finnish metalsmith working in ST. Petersburg, Russia; made prior to 1822 (attributed and dated by...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Drawing of Urey Lisiansky (Lisianskii) for the frontispiece of the book "A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of his Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva"
Engraved map of Russia, with information based on Russian maps. Double sheet map (glued together). Half circle title top center. Cutaways in bottom corners, one showing scales, one labeled "Observation," acknowledging what maps the information...
Exhibition: ASM 7-8/70 Descriptive Narrative: A certificate presented by Mathew Murav'ev, Chief Manager of the Russian-American Company, to Matvei Naushketl, a Tlingit chief. The certificate was given along with a silver medal "Soiuznye...
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
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...
Made: Russia
Used: St. Michael
Found: Unalaska
Culture: Russian
Description: iron; wood; brass
Descriptive Narrative: Small cannon labeled "Russian cannon from St. Michael". Iron barrel is 36" long x approx. 4-1/2"...
Map of Asian Russia, including Bering Strait and part of the western coast of Alaska. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored; outline color. Embossed with the seal de l'Auteur. No. 43 of Brue's Atlas universel de geographie physique.
Map of Asian Russia, showing an entirely different configuration of N.E. Asia from other maps in the same atlas. Long "Destroit de Iesso" runs from 54 degrees N to 69 degrees N. Iesso reappears between 40 degrees N and 43 degrees N at edge of...
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...