Title from sleeve. Group standing together. Left to right: Lew Williams Jr., owner and publisher of the Ketchikan Daily News, Ernest Gruening, photographer Steve McCutcheon, and Mrs. Williams. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Title from sleeve. Warren Taylor and his bride cut the wedding cake. Guests seated at table. 'Merry Christmas' painted on window in background. Photographer's number: 1 of 5. 4x5 B&W negative
Title from sleeve. Robert E. Ellis sits on board the 'Ship of State' airplane en route to Washington D.C. during the drive for statehood. An unidentified man sits behind him, and another sleeps in the last row. Two women look out the windows and...
View of main street in Valdez, Alaska, with businesses and banner hanging over street. From verso: "Main street of Valdez looking toward Sugar Loaf Mt. Bank and Hotel Seattle in foreground. Al White's Saloon first corner. Buffet-Pool Room & Bar...
Merrill, holding a shotgun, leans against the corner of a log cabin [belonging to Pihl, an early-day Sitka saloon owner]; wild fowl and other game hangs along one end of cabin
Title from image caption "Klegstead, owner and driver" Crowd of spectators lines Front Street, gathered on both sides of course where handlers line up a team to start
Title from image caption "G.H. Johnson, owner and driver" Crowd of spectators lines both sides of course; first team of dogs in harness and ready to start Sign for "Lomen Bros." on building in background
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. ...
Sign above door reads "Hotel Pihl, Sitka Hot Spring." Pihl was an early day Sitka saloon owner and bootlegger. (per Joe Ashby, 1988) George Thornton Emmons is man on left (per Jerry Dzugan 5/4/05), and Merrill on right. (verso).]
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.