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.
(6:23 min.) (21 of 24) 21 Purchasing agent (cont.)
Purchasing agent had to fulfill requests in an expeditious manner. Sewick maintained contacts with many suppliers. Sold off some of the company's property. Employees' had first chance to...
Title from caption. Photograph of an Indian school. Narrative in photo album reads: "At right--school built and maintained for Indians by U. S. Government. All Alaskan Indians must support themselves getting only medical treatment &...
Title taken from caption. View of a dogsled in front of a sanctuary cabin. Cabins like this were kept and maintained by park rangers as emergency shelter for park users. The photo was taken inside Mount McKinley National Park (later Denali National...
Title taken from caption. "The Anchorage school house, a three-story structure, having all modern improvements. Both a day and a night school are maintained; the day school consists of seven teachers and approximately 300 students, and the...
View of Peter L. Ferry and Frank Diener standing with car under sign for Steese Highway in interior Alaska. Buildings stand in left background. Sign reads: "Steese Highway. Fairbanks - Circle - Military highway constructed and maintained 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 for the purpose of protecting and conserving the fisheries of the United States...
View of lighted star on Mount Gordon Lyon, or Site Summit, in Arctic Valley above Anchorage, Alaska, maintained by U.S. Army at Fort Richardson. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. 1972-1973? Photographer: William L. McNutt.
Night time view of lighted star on Mount Gordon Lyon, or Site Summit, in Arctic Valley above Anchorage, Alaska, maintained by U.S. Army at Fort Richardson. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. 1973-1974? Photographer: William L. McNutt.
(6:03 min) (15 of 27) Road building philosophy
Were the roads necessary? Roads were built to open up the country. Another philosophy pushed for more planning. Permanence of communities was always in question. People still needed...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a well maintained house with a mown lawn. The photo has no caption. It was taken of a house at the corner of 5th Ave. and Cowles St., Fairbanks.
The H. C. Barley Photographs consist of more than 200 images of Skagway and vicinity in Alaska as well as nearby parts of northwestern British Columbia and southern Yukon. Barley, the official photographer for the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad,...