Title taken from front. Group photo of U.S. Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, and others at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Experimental Station near Matanuska Junction, Matanuska Valley,...
Title taken from front. Group of people, including U.S. Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne and U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels (marked with small white x's in center of photo), walk along Alaska Engineering Commission Railway...
Title taken from front. View of U.S. Naval destroyer 275 with U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, U.S. Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne, and Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman on board, departing Anchorage, Alaska. An Alaska Engineering...
Title taken from front. Group photo of U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, U.S. Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne, Alaska Governor Thomas Christmas Riggs, and others at Alaska Engineering Commission Railway depot in Seward,...
Title taken from front. Group photo of U.S. Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, and others at the end of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway tracks during construction, Southcentral Alaska....
Title taken from front. Group photo of U.S. Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, and others all wearing mosquito nets at mile 236 of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway in Southcentral Alaska....
Title taken from front. Group photo of U.S. Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, Admiral Hugh Rodman, and others at Spencer Glacier, along Alaska Engineering Commission Railway line on Kenai...
Title taken from front. View of United States Interior Secretary John Barton Payne and Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels inspecting United States agricultural experiment station in Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Several men ride in horse drawn wagon just...
Title taken from front. View of crowd at Seward, Alaska railroad station as United States Interior Secretary John Barton Payne, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, and Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman arrive by train to inspect railroad and coal...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
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...
Title taken from front. Group photo of U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, U.S. Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne, and others at Spencer Glacier on Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1592." An Alaska Engineering...
Title and description taken from verso. Hand tinted photograph. Verso: At C.O. Walker's, the most Northern Florist in the world, at Skagway, Alaska. Left to right: A.F. Swenbsen, friend of Secretary Jardine, Boisie, Idaho. George A....
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.
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...