Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Panel title: Map of Nome, York and Klodike, Alaska and Northwest Territories, with information on routes, outfits and other topics of interest. Oriented with north to the upper right. Insets: From S.E....
Remainder of title: and recommending an appropriation for the payment for the territory ceded to the United States, and legislation for the occupation and government of the same. At head of title: 40th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex.Doc....
Shows land and sea routes to locations on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Cover title: Map of Sumner Peninsula, northwestern Alaska : including the mining districts of Cape Nome, Port Clarence, Cape York, Arctic, Kougarok, Good Hope, Council City,...
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...
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...
The first laws for the Harris Mining District (Juneau) were drawn up by Richard T. Harris on October 4, 1880, shortly after he and Joe Juneau made their initial discovery of gold. This set of laws was superceded by another code which was adopted...
This image shows article X of constitution of the state of Alaska which deals with the local government. This government (borough system) was created to address certain conditions that were unique to Alaska. Article XI sets guidelines for the...
Title taken from caption. "9299 -- (39) Here we see the miners digging loose the bank and shoveling the dirt into the stream. Sometimes blasting is used to loosen the bank. The stream carries the soil with the gold which is in it to a sluice...
Title taken from caption. " U.S. Revenue Cutter 'Rush' at Valdez, Alaska." Cataloguer's note: Named in honor of Richard Rush (1780 - 1859) who was a statesman and a diplomat, during the administrations of Adams and John Quincy Adams. The...
Title taken from image. Verso: Speaker: Wm A. Egan, Asst Cleark: Flora Woodworth, Clerk: Margaret Grisham, Sgt at Arms: Doug Wahto. Front row (l. to r.): C. Chester Carlson, Stanley McCutcheon, Frank Johnson, Vernon Metcalfe, Geo. P....
Title taken from Stereograph. "244-11518 -- This view shows a group of natives on the banks of the Yukon. The Yukon flows through the central part of Alaska for a distance of about 1,200 miles. Fish are an important food production in Alaska....
Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russians to the United States of America; Concluded March 30, 1867.
Verso: Front row (l. to r.): Lew Joy, Rob Hoopes, Maurice Johnson, Steve Vukovich, Joe Coble. Second row (l. to r.): Wm Egan, Ed Anderson, W.W. Laws, Ludwig Ost. Third row (l. to r.): G.E. Almquist, Harry Newell, James Nolen, Dewey Anderson,...