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...
Katherine Powers, dressed in a nurses uniform, stands beside an Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation truck. Truck has "ARRC 30" on the door. A Matanuska Valley Colony building site is visible in the background. Original photograph size: 7 x 5...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from verso. "Katherine Powers, nurse Kanakanak - 5 years in Alaska. Star Airways." Three women and a child are standing in front of an Aircraft with a large white star logo. All are dressed in heavy fur coats. The woman on the left is...
Title taken from image. Verso:First row (l. to r.): Henry Roden, John Devine, Jesta Timmerman, Randi Molver, Gladys Brewis, Marian Foster, Bess Millard, Unknown, and J.H. Patterson.
Second row (l. to r.): Victor Rivers, O.D. Cochran,...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
Title from accompanying materials. Mr. Ralph Miller and his partner identified in accompanying materials only as Mr. Powers find success in ptarmigan hunting on the tundra.
Title taken from verso. On item: Mary Powers, a Kobuk Eskimo, taken in front of Post Office (3rd from left) Anchorage. Alaska Native woman stands with a group of young women in downtown Anchorage. Woman later identified (Dec. 2011) as Mary Brown. ...
Title taken from verso. On item: Mary Powers, a Kobuk Eskimo, taken in front of Post Office, Anchorage. Woman later identified (Dec. 2011) as Mary Brown. 4x5 contact print, 4x5 neg
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.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man wearing heavy gloves carrying a framed backpack. He is also smoking a pipe. Caption from album reads: "Mr. O.W. Stenbuck, former mail carrier, is a Swede. He is known as "Five Dollar Bill," and claims...
Title from caption in album. A steam engine or donkey engine, covered with canvas or other fabric, powers a pile driver in place on a bridge as construction advances across the river. A man on a tractor works at the river's edge.