The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
Photograph of a school teacher in a U. S. Government School at Cape Prince of Wales. Visible are several Native students at their desks, a blackboard with math problems and the date May 6th, 1902, an American flag and presidential portraits are on...
Written on front: To my friend Ernest Gruening with best wishes William E. Beltz. Verso: William Ernest Beltz, a 47 year-old native of the Eskimo village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated...
Verso: William Earnest Beltz, a 47-year-old native of the Eskimo Village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated transition from territorial to State government. Beltz's father, a native of...
Caption attached to this photograph relates: Graduates of the electronic technician pilot class undertaken by the Bureau of Indian Affairs are greeted by Senator E. Gruening at RCA Headquarters in Anchorage. The class has just returned from RCA...
As the chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic Development of the Senate Public Works Committee, Senator Gruening inspects a housing project in Bethel while in the town to hold hearings.
Photograph taken at noon in Barrow, Alaska on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. A military officer swears four Alaska Territorial Guardsmen (ATG) in for an assignment.
Group photograph of Alaska Natives with Army and Navy Personnel. Some of the group sit on furniture and some sit on caribou skin rugs. A pennent on the wall notes the Anchorage B.S.A. 2nd Alaskan Air Encampment. May be Alaska Territorial Guard...
E. L. Bob Bartlett with Stan McCutcheon (left) and Albert Kaloa, Jr. of Tyonek. Sen. Bartlett may be speaking about a senate bill pertaining to rural housing.
Caption: Senator Bob Bartlett and Mrs. Anfesia T. Shapswikoff of Unalaska who was guest of Resurrection Bay Historical Society for centennial week. She demonstrated the weaving of the incomparable Attu baskets. She is one of only 5 or 6 left who...
Title from caption. Image shows two men, several women and children seated on the ground beside a canvas tent. The people are identified as Chief Nikaly and family from Knik. The women are wearing kerchiefs while the men and several of the...
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Full caption reads:
"Joe Amarok, Eskimo leader from Nome, Alaska sprinkled water from the Bering Sea on the nose of the Clipper North Wind, first of Pan American World Airways scheduled DC-4s to arrive...
Title taken from verso. Full verso reads: "Slim and the old Indian chief, as we paid an unannounced visit to this fading tribe some sixty miles east of Big Delta, Alaska. May 1939." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and...
Six men photographed in front of St. Stephens Hospital in Fort Yukon, Alaska. The men are identified as Chief Esias, Titus, Gabriel, Elijah, Jimmie and Chief Christian.