Written on front: To my friend Ernest Gruening with best wishes William E. Beltz. Verso: William Ernest Beltz, a 47 year-old native of the Eskimo village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated...
View of the Tallapoosa life ring. From May's journal, dated May 22nd: "The Tallapoosa is a small boat but has a very neat appearance. It is 160 feet long and has 900 tons displacement. It served in the Atlantic waters from April 1917 until November...
View of sign on Baranof (also known as Baranov) House in Kodiak, Alaska. Sign reads: "Baranof House. Built circa 1793. Kodiak & Aleutian Islands Historical Society Museum. This building served as a storehouse and commissary for Alexander Baranof's...
View of men being served food in a chow line on the deck of a ship on their way to the Matanuska Valley in southcentral Alaska. From verso: "Dinner is served. Destitute farmers from Minnesota sent by gov't. to [be] relocated in the undeveloped...
View of Ladd's Station, a former trading post and fishing station on the northwest shore of Cook Inlet. The place served as a base camp for Captain Glenn in 1898. Photograph taken during the 1898 Edwin F. Glenn Cook Inlet U.S. Army Expedition....
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...
Verso: Russ Hart (L), former station manager for the Federal Aviation Agency at Nome receives a retirement certificate from Virgil Knight who represented Allen D. Hulen, the FAA Assistant Administrator for Alaska. Hart completed 30 years of...
Verso: Bob Harwood, city council member of Nome (second from left) delivers address at dedication ceremonies of the Federal Aviation Agency's Flight Service Station, held last Saturday in Nome, as a feature of this year's Midnight Sun Festival. He...
Two women having coffee and cake during 14th Annual Flower Show, with theme "Around the World with Flowers," sponsored by Anchorage Garden Club and held in First National Bank of Anchorage lobby at 4th Avenue and G Street in Anchorage, Alaska....
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Title taken from verso. View of workers eating and being served food in Surfcote contractor mess hall at pipe processing plant in Deadhorse, Alaska during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction at Prudhoe Bay. Sept. 4, 1974. Photographer: Steve...
Title taken from verso. Portrait of state and community leader Leo F. Rhode of Homer, Alaska. Among other achievements, he served in the Alaska Legislature and as mayor of Homer. From information with photo: "Republican Women's Club. 7 candidates."...
Title taken from verso. Alaska Republican Party political candidate Bennie Leonard in Anchorage, Alaska. Leonard also served on Anchorage City Council. Oct. 1970. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 7" x 5".
Title taken from verso. Aerial view of air strip at Prospect Creek Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction camp which also served Pump Station Number 5 in Interior Alaska. June 19, 1974. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 10" x 8...
Title taken from verso. Verso: Fifty-five years of the history of Alaska's struggle toward self-government were recalled in Washington this week when Frank A. Waskey, right, called in 1906 as Alaska's first delegate in congress following...
Title taken from front. View of wooden building that served as morgue, Seward, Alaska. Sign on building next to it reads: "Rob Small, Blacksmith and horse shoes." From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." n.d. Postcard. Original...