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...
(4:14 min.) (07 of 08) 7. Population dislocation. Average person in Anchorage has lived here less than five years, only came to take advantage of the money, and plans to retire elsewhere. The less educated people raised in rural Alaska...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Another area of more or less permanent flood plain ice on Firth River about 4 miles below (northeastward) from crossing of the 141st meridian. View is looking northward down Firth River....
Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Another area of more or less permanent flood plain ice on Firth River about 4 miles below (northeastward) from crossing of the 141st meridian. View is looking northward down Firth River....
Title from verso. Image shows a young man standing against a sign that reads, "Summit Isabella Pass, Elev. 3310." Isabella Pass, now known as Isabel Pass, is on the Richardson Highway, less than 2 miles north of Summit Lake. A tundra landscape...
Title from indexer. Photograph of Mary Cox seated on the supports for a coldframe greenhouse, while puppies vie for her attention. Additional narrative from donor notes reads: "The first summer in Point Hope, at the old mission site, I...
(7:00 min.) (04 of 12) Weather at Amchitka and railroad to bering sea Apr '42 Engineers got word from Service and Supply (Roosevelt) find Railroad route from Fairbanks to sea.--Town meeting of the 3000 population of Fairbanks--Lots of...
(5:11 min) (27 of 27) Final Comments
Winter road north from Eagle and Circle to the DEW line. Built by Alaska Freightline. LaTourneau trains, made for the desert, were not very successful here. Less paperwork makes for more fun in the...
Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Shows routes of Captains Bering and Chirikov across the North Pacific Ocean to America, including Alaska. Interior of America blank. Small map based on the 1758 Imperial Academy of Sciences map, with...
Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Hand colored. Shows routes of Captains Bering and Chirikov across the North Pacific Ocean to America, including Alaska. Interior of America blank. Small map based on the 1758 Imperial Academy of...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
(4:49 min.) (02 of 09) 2. Important issues. Les was interested in statehood and getting a fair share for Alaska; he was less interested in specific issues. Proponents of statehood wanted to get out from control of the Department of the...
Title taken from caption. "11507 -- (5) The stories we read of life in the Arctic usually persuade us to believe that only the most robust persons should venture into those latitudes, and then only when well provided with an ample wardrobe of...
Title taken from caption. "9195 -- (28) The difficulty of crossing lofty mountain ranges gives great importance to notches or passes in their tops through which travel and traffic may go with less effort than over their crests. The heavy snows...