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...
At the request of Governor George A. Parks, the Alaska Chapter of the American Legion conducted a contest among the Territory's school children to choose Alaska's Flag Design. Text on flag: Alaska seal.
At the request of Governor George A. Parks, the Alaska Chapter of the American Legion conducted a contest among the Territory's school children to choose Alaska's Flag Design.
Title from image caption Large canoe, with designs carved on sides, is propped up on beach; near water's edge is a cannon; dock, boats, and buildings in background Photographer's number 170
Keithahn instructs a group of school children, using stuffed birds, including a bald eagle and an owl; in the background are a totem pole and panels with Native mask designs
The man wears regalia featuring bear designs; he holds a rattle in one hand and, in the other, the Kaagwaantaan Bear Staff Kuchein (Martin White) of the Kookhítaan or "Box House People" in Sitka, with his wife Yaast'ooch whose clan was...
Fireplace tools and andirons, modeled on traditional Tlingit designs, crafted by Albert Berry of Alaska Artisans Arts & Crafts Shop, Juneau, Alaska. c. 1922.
Title from accompanying materials. Man on steps of house which has panel with Tlingit designs running up center of house. Taax’ Hít (Snail House), Hoonah. Identification courtesy of Harold Jacobs.
Title from image. Full caption: One may be our new flag. Grace Traube, employee of one of the largest flag manufacturing concerns in the country, stands by two of the many designs proposed as the new American flag. President Eisenhower will...