Girls are standing just outside a fenced area. Basketball standard and storage tanks are in background. Sign in image: Experimental Garden Hoonah Government school.
Title taken from image. Image: Area 16 -- Alaska -- R -- * -- * -- HAINES (NEAR) -- View of Fort Seward, military installation near Haines -- * -- N5914 W13520 -- 6/22/29 - RESTRICTED 813.850 CFL.
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Title taken from photo caption. Photo caption: 16 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska Opposite Merrill Field, the Municipal Airport is a string of trailers and shacks -- contrary to implications the residents of this area do not work at the Municipal...
Photo caption: 16 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska Owing to the housing shortage in this area and the fact that the management of the Alaska Railroad declined to have employees live in the unhealthy insanitary conditions which were prevalent in the...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska 10th and East G - - privies and shacks predominate in this scene. Poor housing is one of the major factors in the high degree of illness of children under 10 years of age in this portion of...
Title taken from image. Verso: Taken from Mt. Verstovin / Mt. Arrowhead area. Subject: Sitka District, Alaska. City of Sitka (foreground) is beautifully situated on the Pacific Ocean shore of Baranof Island. Mt. Edgecumbe, 3271-foot extinct...