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 of March thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and...
Title from caption. Photograph of two men in the boat yard behind Stevens Village, building a boat. Narrative in photo album reads: "The boat yard just back of the village where the Indians constructed their long poling boats. They whip-sawed...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
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Remainder of title: , and conferring jurisdiction upon said court to hear, examine, adjudicate, and enter judgement upon any and all claims which said Indians may have, or claim to have, against the United States, and for other purposes.
Title from cataloger. Photograph of a woman who may be Cora Rivenburg standing on the porch of a house. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the right is our house at Stevens Village taken the day after our arrival. The school room occupied the...
Photograph label reads: "Hauling the supplies necessary and the rolling stock in during the summer months by boat from the States to St. Michals [St. Michael?] thence by river boat to Nenana."
Photograph label reads: "The railroad, under Mr. Browne's administration would have been nearly completed and large sums would have been saved for the Government had it not been hampered by the laxity of Congress in meeting...
Title from verso. Photograph of a soldier witing in a notebook from the entrance of a tent. Verso reads: "His cartridge belt by his feet, Private Oliver Delorio of San Francisco takes time out during the Attu Island campaign to write a...
Title from verso. Photograph of a load of gasoline drums being lowered into an umiak. Verso reads: "Four of 16. Gasoline for Pribilofs -- A slingload of gasoline-filled drums is lowered into a waiting bidar, a 40-foot canvas covered...
(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...
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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Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "A drilling rig sends out a spray of steam during exploratory work at Prudhoe Bay in 1969. The well which discovered the huge oil field had previously been drilled but additional wells, such as...
Title taken from caption. "11561 -- (7) Here are a couple of prospectors playing hide-and-seek in the midst of massive blocks of ice which have been left upon the banks of the Allenkaket River by the receding waters. The blocks exceed in...