Photograph of Governor William Egan signing a document in front of the media with a band from the University of Alaska to the side. Rep. Ralph Rivers can be seen behind the table to the far right.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Federal Highway Act of 1964 with an audience of lawmakers. Senator Gruening visible second from right in the front row.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, probably signing the Alaska Statehood, (seated center) with Vice-president Richard M. Nixon (seated left) and the Alaska delegation behind. Alaska delegation includes left to right Ralph Rivers, Ernest Gruening and...
Title from caption. Photograph of Moore's Wharf with ships tied along it; livestock in pens and bales of hay can be seen at the far right. Caption reads: "Moore's Wharf before it was extended & completed, during these years from the period...
Photograph of Governor Egan signing the Human Rights Act. Identified are left to right Sen. Mike Gravel, Dick Hedberg-AFL-CIO, Maria G. Bowman and Willard Bowman-NAACP.
(4:01 min.) (01 of 27) Family history: Grandfather
Grandfather from Virginia, fought for Union, was a soldier at Sitka during the signing in 1868. Father stayed and married a Creole, part Aleut. Got a Job with the A. C. Co. Grandfather...
37 second, color/silent, film clip of President Eisenhower signing Alaska into statehood. Among the notables that can be identified are: President Dwight Eisenhower, Vice President Richard Nixon, Senator Bob Bartlet, Senator Ernest Gruening...
Delegates to the Alaskan Constitutional Convention view a musk ox at the University of Alaska Musk Ox Farm during the 10 anniversary celebration of the signing of the states constitution.
In 1949 the Alaska statehood committee was established and preparation for the drafting of the state constitution began. On November 8 1955, fifty five elected delegates from all over the state met in the Constitution Hall at the University of...
Title taken from verso. "March 21, 1955. Governor B. Heintzleman signing bill authorizing a statehood convention to be held Novemenber [November] 8, 1955 at the University of Alaska, College, Alaska.
Scenes from the Alaska State Museum at Juneau. Items include Southeast Alaska artwork, a petroglyph from Wrangell, Eskimo stone anchors, an early Russian cannon from Kodiak, a copy of "Signing the Alaska Treaty", a hand-sewn 36-star American flag...
View of Alaska Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening (seated at desk) signing the Fish Trap Tax bill. Standing (L-R): Speaker of the House Stanley McCutcheon, Senator Victor C. Rivers, Representative Marcus Jensen.
Title taken from caption. Resident of Unalaska atop Mt. Ballyhoo. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Mayor and members of the city government signing Anchorage, Alaska library bonds. From verso: "Zachary Loussac, Mayor of Anchorage, signing agreement re sale of $300,000 City of Anchorage Library Bonds. Standing, left to right, John Hellenthal,...