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.
Almer J. Peterson standing next to wash tub and washboard doing laundry in Palmer (known earlier as Warton), Alaska, with buildings in background. Buildings are at Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colony. From verso:...
Comments by R. N. De Armond: . The name on the life ring is RESEARCH. The MacBride list (Alaska Weekly, 9/l/44) lists RESEARCH as being an iron hull with propeller. Went to the Koyukuk in 1898 and returned there in 1899; went to St. Michael in...
Comments by R. N. De Armond: The boat had an iron hull and was put together at-Saint Michael in 1898. She measured 49 tons gross. In 1944 the hull was in use as a barge by the Black Transportation Company (MacBride's list, Alaska Weekly 8/11/44)
Comments by R. N. De Armond: The boat had an iron hull and was put together at-Saint Michael in 1898. She measured 49 tons gross. In 1944 the hull was in use as a barge by the Black Transportation Company (MacBride's list, Alaska Weekly 8/11/44)
Editorial cartoon commenting on the problems with gaining statehood for Alaska in the 1920's. [Reportedly drawn while Jessen was in Cordova, not as part of Jessen's Weekly. Caption reads "Cordova - Alaska .22".]
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
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.
Group photo of members of Pioneers of Alaska Igloo no. 4 at airport, Fairbanks, Alaska. From front: "A strong turnout of members of Igloo no. 4, Pioneers of Alaska saw Pat O'Neil and his family off to Columbia yesterday morning via Alaska Airlines...
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"...
Originally published in Barron's National Financial Weekly, v. III, no. 32, Aug. 6, 1923; the author questions why Alaska's population and industry had not grown in proportion to its vast resources
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of protecting and conserving the fisheries of the United States...
Political cartoon depicting Alaska being carved up by business and governmental interests. [Reportedly drawn while Jessen was in Cordova, not as part of Jessen's Weekly. Caption reads "Cordova - Alaska .22".]
Political cartoon depicting strings attached to Alaska by federal bureaus and anchored to the Capitol Building in Washington D. C. [Reportedly drawn while Jessen was in Cordova, not as part of Jessen's Weekly. Caption reads "Cordova - Alaska...
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Shows overland and water routes to the Klondike gold fields. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Panel title: Map of the Klondike. "Reprinted from Harper's Weekly, August 14, 1897." Includes ancillary map of Alaska. 17.2 x 14.1 cm.,...
Sketch of three people running rapids in a long narrow boat Note: Edwin Tappan Adney (1868-1950) was an artist, a writer, a photographer, and an experienced woodsman. Harper's Weekly sent Tappan Adney to the Klondike in the summer of 1897