Title taken from front. View of tents and buildings at future site of A Street in new town of Nenana, Alaska. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 28. Aug. 24, 1916. Photographer: A.J. Johnson. Original photograph size: 4...
View of the new Alaska Sales and Service building with earthquake damage. Sign reads: "Future home of Alaska Sales and Service. Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Cadillac, GMC. OK Used Cars. One of the northwest (sic) largest complete automotive...
Title taken from caption. View of four men in front of a sign, one of them holding a microphone and a shovel, at a groundbreaking ceremony. Caption also reads: "L[eft]/R[ight,] Mayor George H. Byer, [Charles] Laughton, Frank Brink, Director of...
Title taken from caption. View of four men in front of a sign, one of them holding a shovel and digging while the others watch, at a groundbreaking ceremony. Caption also reads: "L[eft]/R[ight,] Mayor George H. Byer, [Charles] Laughton, Frank...
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. ...
This series was designed to invite instructors to explore the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act with Students. The Teachers Guide accompanies six video episodes that vary in length from 14-25 minutes.
Title from verso During the last days of the battle of Massacre Bay, several Japanese prisoners were taken. Instead of being killed as the Japanese feared they would be, they were well treated, fed, and provided with candy and cigarettes. Then...
Ted Pedersen poses with a chain saw Caption on verso: "This is only a temporary dwelling until I can build our future home of logs. However I learned a lot by putting this one together. Have been wearing a moustache for seven years."
Walter L Fisher was the Secretary of the Interior from 1911 to 1913, under President Taft. In 1911 he visited Alaska as part of the process of determining the future route of the Alaska Railroad. He was accompanied by his son Walter T. Fisher, who...
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...
Aerial of banner waving commercial boat (Plan for the future.) heads towards the Alyeska oil terminal with other members of a flotilla to protest the docking of foreign flagged tankers, if an oil spill occurred who would take responsibility -...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Bridge across the Chena, part of the access road built by the Corps' contractor working on the north portion of the Moose Creek Dam foundation. This is downstream from the site of the future outlet works." ...
Title taken from creator's notes. Color photograph. Notes read: The Daily News Miner office-fronted 2nd street, as seen here, and had a back loading dock on 1st street. This office was destroyed by a flood in 1967. After this flood, the...