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...
Title supplied by cataloger. Seward. View of storefronts and cars along street, looking north along Fourth Avenue. Businesses include: Seward Bakery, Chuck's Grill, The Northern Saloon, barber shop, Leo & Bobbie Liquors & Pool, Alaska Bookkeeping...
Title supplied by cataloger. On recto: Seward. View of storefronts and cars along street, looking north along Fourth Avenue. Businesses include: Brown and Hawkins Corporation, Seward Bakery, Chuck's Grill, The Northern Pool Liquors, barber shop,...
Mrs. J. A. Baughman (doctor's wife) and Mrs. E. E. Hale (bankers wife) stand on wooden sidewalk with Alaska Central Railroad building and Seward's first schoolhouse in the background. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Group portrait of small children and babies with three adults standing in front U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey Tidal Station on the Fourth of July in Seward, Alaska. Girls in front row hold gun and flag. Sign on building reads: "U.S. Coast & Geodetic...
View of buildings on fire during the November 23-24, 1941 Fourth Avenue fire in Seward, Alaska, which destroyed at least 16 businesses in the downtown area. Nov. 23-24, 1941. Original photograph size: 2 3/4" x 2 7/8".
Photograph with a press release included which reads: Case Of The Missing Watercolor--Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, right, presents to Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) the reproduction of a painting depicting the transfer of Russian...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ AAC -- Seward from the air -- Seward's damaged waterfront buildings and rail yards lie twisted and broken in the aftermath of the Good Friday earthquake which seriously damaged this community among many others...
Title taken from note with photo. "Civilian volunteers turn out to help put Sewards [Seward's] Radio Station KIBH back on the air following the Alaska Earthquake and tidal wave 4/3/64." About eight men are gathered around a piece of equipment...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Northern Railway car and crowds of people, Seward Alaska. From verso: "Mrs. Silverman is the one in the "hat" [shows drawing of tall, somewhat pointed hat, which places Mrs. Silverman just left of center in...
Title taken from front. Picnic goers posing on a log and plank bridge, Seward, Alaska. From verso: "Taken at Seward. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." July 24, 1913. Photographer: L.N.G. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 3/8" x 5 3/8".
Caption: Klondike Nuggets from "Seward's Land of Gold" by French p. 57 per book. Looks like posed studio picture. Screened picture. Verso: Successful Klondike miners. Notes: "Edwin H. Brown, on left, and Major L.H. French displaying...