From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of protecting and conserving the fisheries of the United States...
Reindeer herd in small pen at U.S. Government Reindeer Project complex in Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard Kosbau and Ward W....
Signal Corps photo number SC 140008. Verso: Col. William O. Eareckson of the 11th Provisional Bombing Command, who received the Distinguished Service Cross, is writing a message on a bomb destined for the Japs on the Island of Kiska. Umnak...
Signal Corps photo number SC 140127. Verso: Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
With the playing of taps, a soldier is laid to rest atop a hill in Boot Hill Cemetery. Full military funerals are given soldiers who have died out here. There are seven...
Signal Corps photo number SC 174201. Verso: Medics massage the legs and feet of 17 year old Pvt. Donald Lynch who was forced to remain in a water filled trench at the front for over twenty- four hours due to enemy fire. At the time this picture...
Signal Corps photo number SC 249090. Verso: Chaplain Ruben Curtis of Salt Lake City, Utah, leads men in singing hymns at a burial service of U.S. soldiers killed in action at Massacre Bay, Aleutians Islands, June 1, 1943. The cemetery is...
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. ...
Title from verso. Verso: Occupation of Amchitka by US Army Task Forces. This island is located seventy miles from Kiska, held by the Japanese. Signal Corps photo by BPR. Original negative received from BPR, May, 1943. Released by BPR, May...
Title from verso. Photograph of men in landing boats heading for Attu Island. Verso reads: "This photo, one of the first taken of the landing of U.S. troops on Jap-held [ Japanese held ] Attu island last May 11th, was taken by a navy...
Title from verso. Highly doctored photograph of a U. S. Navy warship bombarding Attu Island. Original may have been overexposed and darkened for better visibility. Verso reads: "Confirmation that the big ones were in action came for the...
Title from verso. Panoramic photograph of explosions just off shore during the attack of Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "Here in one of the first offical Dutch Harbor bombing photos released by the U.S. Navy is shown a series of bomb...
Title from verso. Photograph of a building damaged during the bombing raid on Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "All that remained of a 24-bed hospital at Unalaska after Japanese bombers struck June 4. Fortunately, all patients had been...