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: What Happens When A Territory Becomes A State? - In a radio interview with Washington correspondent Stuart Finley, offical representatives of the new country of Ghana and the 49th state of the United States discuss the similaritites and...
Edition of October, 1887. Selective relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "Grave par C. Legras." "Ecrit par Vialard." Prime meridian: Paris. "No. 3784." "124-181."
Photograph label reads: "Work was continually hampered and great losses sustained by work under construction being shut down and Mr. Browne's plans inte[r]rupted."
In 1925, Norman H. Read (1891-1992) was part of the first expedition to climb Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America. Read returned to make a second ascent of the mountain in 1950, at the age of...
Title from verso. Photograph of troops U. S. Army troops landing on the beach of one of the Aleutian Islands. Verso reads: United States Army Troops with Navy support have occupied the Andreanof Island Group in the Aleutians, only 125...
Title form verso partially obscured. Photograph of Kiska invasion command during a meeting to discuss the final plans. Verso reads: "American and Canadian troops have occupied Kiska, vast Japanese stronghold in the Aleutians, without...
(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 back of photo and accompanying note. "Junior Red Cross boxes brought smiles of delight to the faces of Aleut children in the Red Cross shelter at Camp Denali while plans were being made for their return to Old Harbor. Gift...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia and George try a ride on 'Deacon' at McCarthy Creek. For the first time in dawned on me that I faced a real problem in getting my young wife and child out over a rough 190 mile trail, crossing several...
Title taken from creator's notes. Caption reads: General Dwight Eisenhower (center) visited Fairbanks military facilities to "review the troops." Great plans were made, however, a rain storm put everyone inside the (one & only) big hangar. The...
Photo caption reads "Carpenter Ez Rupe and Robin Montgomery looking over plans for superintendent's house." View of two men looking over the blueprints of for the new superintendent's house at it's construction site near the Independencs Mine.
Title taken from caption. An unidentified Alaska Native boy watches the excavators make plans. Alan May is in the light colored jacket, Ales Hrdlicka to the right. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
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.
Title taken from label on matting. View of sheep grazing on farm in Matanuska Valley, Alaska, with farm buildings in left background. Also from label: "Post-war plans of the Department of the Interior include the development of suitable farming and...
Title taken from verso. Planning map for Turnagain Heights subdivision in Anchorage, Alaska. Also from verso: "Lynn Ary." Captions on plans include: "Lynn Ary Park," "Knik Arm," "Turnagain Boulevard," and "Reserved for the capitol of Alaska." June...