From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Sophie (right) and the cook backgammoning in Shelikof strait, or somewhere." View of two men playing acey deucey, a variant of backgammon. From May's journal, dated June 29th: "About noon we passed Mitrofania...
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...
Title from photo album. Photograph of Lawyer Rivenburg in a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "These canoes weigh but fifty to sixty pounds and are from fifteen to eighteen feet long and about eighteen inches to two feet...
Title taken from caption. "11550 The Village of St. Michaels is located upon the northeastern portion of an island of the same name, and is one of the oldest of the Russian outposts in Alaska. Here, passengers and freight are transferred from...
In 1925, Norman H. Read (1891-1992) was part of the first expedition to climb Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America. Read returned to make a second ascent of the mountain in 1950, at the age of...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Four big horn at right. Ocha Potter fords branch of Lakina River. Carries pants on back." [Probably 1905.] "The ford was in a deep canyon with rapids through vertical rock walls above and below. We had been...
Ocha Potter, age 20. "In the early spring of 1898 came rumors of war with Spain. Soon war was declared. My father and grandfather had been Civil War veterans. An earlier ancestor had been an officer with George Washington's staff. Another had...