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...
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....
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 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 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...
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...