Title taken from sign in photo. Woman sits under sign advertising "Date Nite" at USO building in Anchorage, Alaska, with men on either side offering her cigarettes (left) and beverages (right). Also from sign in photo: "Every Sat[urday] night,...
Title taken from verso. Hunter pulling muktuk toward his home after whale hunt in Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. April 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction camp at Falls Creek along Turnagain Arm, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G315." Letter from verso: "Falls Creek, Alaska, May 13, 1917. Editor Alaska Railroad...
[A check for $5,168,967.71 is presented to Governor Egan by Lyle F. Gones, Chief of the Bureau of Land Management, Division of Engineering. The Check represents Alaska's share of Federal Revenues obtained from public lands under the Mineral...
Portrait of the headwaiter at the Curry Hotel standing beside a cash register. A sign and a collection tin are visible on the counter. The sign reads "The Ski Patrol needs your help. Do your share." Photo taken during an Anchorage Ski Club outing...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 5 seconds, MPG-1 format. The advance group is having some black bearded seal meat (kiniqtaq) to share for dinner. Jana Harchauk (Nagruk) is...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia Silverfriend, age 16 (Mrs. Ocha Potter)". "An overnight visit to my broken hearted mother who could see no reason why I should give my life to save Cuba from the Spaniards. Mother threatened to...
(4:49 min.) (02 of 09) 2. Important issues. Les was interested in statehood and getting a fair share for Alaska; he was less interested in specific issues. Proponents of statehood wanted to get out from control of the Department of the...
Remainder of title: , and conferring jurisdiction upon said court to hear, examine, adjudicate, and enter judgement upon any and all claims which said Indians may have, or claim to have, against the United States, and for other purposes.
(5:35 min.) (06 of 08) 6. Urban-rural divide The divide was not an issue until the majority of population moved to the city. Clem sees states outside Alaska as being willing to take advantage of Alaska's resources. Diane thinks that many...
Weyiouanna, Dick (photographer). Video, 2:03 minutes MPG format. In January of 2002, Dick Weyiouanna 19s Inupiat language class explored a Barrow ice cellar, a pit dug into the tundra and owned by whaling captain, Bill Aishanna. Whales give...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.