Caption: "Governor Bill Quinn accepts the Alaska State Flag from Alaska's Senator Ernest Gruening while Senator Gruening visits Hawaii on a trip to help with Hawaiian Statehood." The man on the left resembles, but is not, Ernest Gruening.
Title from attached news release. Full news release reads: "Sid Hayman Manager, Service Department Alaska Steamship Company Pier 42 - MA 2-4530 (nights: WE 5-4250) Seattle, Washington For the ship whose crew brought her...
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.