The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Title taken from verso. View of customers in Seven Seas bar in Anchorage, Alaska. Also from verso: "Seven Seas, for [Lou] Jacobin['s Guide to Alaska]. Interior showing bar. (Publicity shot, interior with people)." Feb. 20, 1952. Original photograph...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Text of telegram: Signal Corps, United States Army. Telegram. Send the following Message: Juneau, February 26, 1912Hon. Walter E. Clark, Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.Action commenced against Collector Customs to compel issuance manifest for...
Title taken from front. Men with seven dog teams four miles out from shore transporting freight from steamship S.S. Corwin over the ice to Nome, Alaska. S.S. Corwin in background at right. Photographer's number A990. June 2, 1907. Photographer:...
Title from image caption The winners: Mrs. [Hannah] Swanson and her team of seven dogs; Course: Flat-Discovery-Flat-Iditarod-Flat; Distance 20.2 Miles; Time: 2:17:44 A crowd of spectators lines the finish chute as Mrs. Swanson finishes...
Title from image. Full caption: One may be our new flag. Grace Traube, employee of one of the largest flag manufacturing concerns in the country, stands by two of the many designs proposed as the new American flag. President Eisenhower will...
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
Seven children reading in a classroom at the Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska. A blackboard and several pictures are on the wall in the background. From verso: "Carrie Ida Pierce, Seward, Alaska, Box 516." ca. 1946-1955. Original photograph size: 3...
2 maps on one sheet. Components: The Aral Sea according to Khanikoff -- Kamchatka according to A. Erman. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. No. 8 from Fullarton's Royal Illustrated Atlas of Modern Geography. Includes seven illustrations...
Title from accompanying notes. There are seven men outside several yellow tents. The wind on the mountains is stirring up the snow in the background. Guy lines for the tents are marked with pink flagging.
Two separate maps on one sheet. Nautical chart shows Eclipse Harbor, Labrador, with soundings, surveyed by Lieut. Comdg. A. Murray; sketch map includes map of a segment of the coast of Labrador and seven views of locations along the coast of...