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...
Group of ivory carvings made at Nunivak Island, Alaska, including figurines (one of walrus), letter openers decorated with seal figures, and crochet hook decorated with fish figure. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled]...
Title taken from caption. Excerpt from caption: "From 11 am to 2 pm the sky of Anchorage was in total darkness. Result from the eruption of Mt. Spurr on 9 July 1953. Photograph taken about 5 pm. Car to the left is a Chrysler. Car to right...
Title taken from verso. View of burnt trees, ash, and steam at Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in what was later designated Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. 1920-1929? Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Title taken from verso. View of dragline on crane working at Platinum, Alaska. Photo negative number 1450-90-E. 1950's? Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
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. ...
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...
Title from top of graph. At left: "A weather chart showing the coldest wave ever felt in the history of Dawson. To whom it may concern: These figures, covering the winter months of 1905 and 1906, were taken from the official records of the...
Title taken from caption. View of the Frye-Bruhn ranch buildings with the ash covered land around them. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of the chapel and girls dormitory of the Kodiak Baptist Church Orphanage on Woody Island (know earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. The field in front of the trees and buildings is covered in ash. Photo taken during...
Title taken from caption. View of a man examining the dying poplar trees along Soluka Creek in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of poplar trees in a field of ash, sending out sprouts from dormant buds in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of new pussy willow growth, growing horizontally in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Vertical growth has been sandblasted by ash, blowing in the wind, and destroyed. Photo taken during National...