Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Typewritten text on recto: "High Tide - 'Anne W.' arrived from Seldovia with one barge. Departed immediately for Seldovia. View shows Dock #2. Arm practically free from floating ice."
Title taken from label on matting. View of buildings in Nome, Alaska, including Chinese restaurant, cleaners, and dance hall. Signs read: "Restraunt [sic]. Chopsueynoodls [sic]" ("n's" and third "s" in sign are backward), "Cleninghats [sic] Suits,"...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Junior Red Cross boxes brought smiles of delight to the faces of Aleut children in the Red Cross shelter at Camp Denali while plans were being made for their return to Old Harbor. Gift...
This image shows Article VII of the constitution of the state of Alaska which provides free education to all children of the State by mandating public school system and state university system. The article also directs the legislature to provide...
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. ...
Text: In the foreground… totem carved by the
S. E. Alaska Indians of WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD
"sitting on his suitcase"… (extreme right).
Original Lincoln to[t]em at the left. Note he
Has his hand extended "holding the...
Two young men in Boy Scout uniforms putting up posters in a shop window. Posters: Check your chest. Have an x-ray at the Methodist Church basement starting March 22, 1948. It's free. It's painless. Takes only a few minutes. No...
Title taken from slide mount. Warehouse with pallets stacked in front, and large sign. Sign: Valdez, coastal Terminus of Alaska's Highway System, Distribution Center to Interior Alaska. Farthest North Year Round Ice Free Seaport in North...
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TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AND THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD QUOTE THE LAY OF FINAL VICTORY HAS AT LAST ARRIVED X JAPAN HAS SURRENDERED X HER FLEET WHICH ONCE...