Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Woman photographer from Anchorage Times contemplating how she wants us to pose: Left to right: Standing: Bill Hauser, Norm Benton, Ed Boulton, Marie Working, Chuck DeHart,...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
View looking south down Main Street, Cordova, Alaska. From verso: "Main Street looking south, Cordova. Burned out May 2, 1963. Only place left standing was the Bowling Alley, Davis Grocery, Service (Standard) Station, shell of the Times Bldg and...
Title taken from verso. Alaskan "pioneers" visiting railroad car in which President Warren G. Harding rode, Alaska. Also from verso: ""Pioneers" visiting same. Left to right: Mrs. Elizabeth Bliss, Marie Silverman, Leif Strand, Lois Paderson, Heinie...
Title taken from verso. Verso: The First Glacier Ever Visited by a President of the United States: President Harding, Mrs. Harding and Governor Scott C. Bone of Alaska at the Mendenhall Glacier, Near Juneau, on the Presidential "Voyage of...
Title taken from verso. Verso: The Front Porch in Alaska: President Harding Speaking from the Porch of the House of Governor Bone at Juneau. (Times Wide World Photos). Governor Bone and three others in background. People gathered in foreground....
Title taken from verso. Verso: President Harding, while seated on the porch of the schoolhouse at the Indian Village of Metlakatla, with Mrs. Harding, Governor Scott Bone and Secretary Wallace, sights an aviator cutting circles in the Alaskan Skies...
Title taken from verso. Verso: the President, with Governor Bone, chatting with two sailors of the U.S. Naval Radio Station at Seward (Times Wide World Photos).
Title taken from verso. Verso: President Harding leaving his Pullman at Seward, Alaska, for an extended exploration of a branch line of the railroad by means of an automobile fitted with railway wheels (Times Wide World Photos). Other members of...
Title taken from verso. Verso: President Harding's Trip to Alaska, 1923. An Eskimo dog team at Cantwell, Alaska. President is seen admiring the dog team (Times Wide World Photos). Alaskan Transportation Old and New: The President Inspecting a Dog...
Title taken from verso. President Harding on a Hill Outside Valdez, the Centre of the Copper Region of Alaska, Has the Points of Interest Shown to Him by a Member of His Party. At left is Governor Bone, and then President Harding (Times Wide World...
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...