Title taken from caption. View of Bob Reeve's plane sitting on the Columbia Glacier with the parts of a new diesel engine unloaded in the foreground. The term 'cat' is often used in refering to a tractor. This tractor engine is most likely for some...
Title and spelling taken from caption. View of a man walking along a beach on Kodiak Island. There is a building in the background. From May's journal, dated May 28th: "For the purpose of the identification of artifacts, the site is divided into...
Title from sleeve. Aerial view of the terminal building at the Kenai airport, showing parked cars, several parked airplanes, and the end of the runway. More buildings visible across the road and up the street. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Formal portrait of William "Willie" "Iggiagruk" Hensley, who served as both a State Representative in Alaska for 4 years, as House majority leader, and as a State senator, for 4 years from 1971-75 and again for a term starting in 1987,...
Description from verso: This picture taken on June 8, 1978 in the Senate Chambers is a remembrance of the retirement from the legislature of the Dean of the Senate, Senator John Butrovich.The photograph includes a history of the Alaska Senate...
Governor Jay S. Hammond stands at the lectern addressing the audience during his first term in office; several other people are visible behind him on stage
From verso: A.P. Swineford - taken on his way to Alaska as Governor [in] 1885 to finish Kincaid's term and then serve his own [as second governor of the Territory of Alaska, 1885-1889]
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Title taken from verso. Verso: Fifty-five years of the history of Alaska's struggle toward self-government were recalled in Washington this week when Frank A. Waskey, right, called in 1906 as Alaska's first delegate in congress following...
Blanche Louise Preston McSmith represented Anchorage in the House of Representatives during the second session of the First Alaska Legislature in 1960. Mrs. McSmith was appointed by then-Governor William Egan in January of 1960 to fill out the...