Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, leaving Juneau [view of Juneau from sea]". At Juneau we tied up to the dock for a full day. We sailed Westward through icy straits, dodging small floating ice fields and big icebergs from Muir...
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.
Title taken from caption. View of damage to a hillside made by rocks from volcanic eruption of Mount Katmai. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to...
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...
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,...
Title from verso. Photograph of a tracked vehicle pulling an artillery piece out of the mud. Verso reads: "Just a couple hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle is Adak Island, in Aleutian chain, where Task Force Williwaw has been...
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...
Over one hundred mailboxes and newspaper boxes in a row at Rainbow Valley Trailer Park, off Chena Hotsprings Road, during boom years associated with construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Photo caption: 16 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska Owing to the housing shortage in this area and the fact that the management of the Alaska Railroad declined to have employees live in the unhealthy insanitary conditions which were prevalent in the...