A group of people assembled at the dock in the rain; perhaps taken from the deck of a vessel. Signs in image: Alaska Steamship Company; Ingersoll Hotel; Marine Hotel; Rotary International; Pioneer Airways agency, Charter Flights,...
A photograph of a group of people standing on the ice. This group may have been assembled in response to the landing of the Airship Norge in Teller, Alaska.
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and...
Military personnel gather around kitchen area of steaming cooking pots and dish pans; behind them is a shelter assembled from wing surfaces of wrecked Japanese planes
Military personnel, assembled outside a Quonset hut, study a map of Kiska Island, receiving instructions from Col. W. O. Eareckson (Alaska Life, January 1943, p. 32)
One minute, 41 second, color/sound, film clip. From title frame: "Marston Matt" steel plank runway is assembled by U.S. Army on Adak. Excerpt from "Report from the Aleutians", a 1943 War Dept. film produced, directed, and narrated by John...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March...