A large group of people (mostly men, it seems) are gathered on the street. There are a couple posters promoting candidates and voting for an election. One poster shows: "VOTE for Colin Beaton, school trustee." Another...
Title taken from news clipping. Photograph used in a February 17, 1959 issue of The Washington Daily News. The news paper clipping also had a capion that read: "A push for Washington 'home rule' got under way this morning when two models...
"Born in Alaska and thus unable to vote for previous presidential elections, William Egan is shown as he marks an absentee ballot to be recorded in his hometown of Valdez."
Title from donor notes. Full donor notes read: "Polling place for primary election (pre-statehood, the only national election in which Point Hope could vote): RJC, with election officials and poll-watchers Lenny Lane, David Frankson, Daniel...
(3:11 min.) (08 of 12) Pork-Barrel appointment to judgeships and reactions to Ada being a part of the Constitutional Convention Fairbanks -- before Statehood; territorial form of government -- people had no voice; Washington DC -- grant favors;...
18 min film clip, color/sound. Interview in a parked van between some apparent staffers of Ted Stevens or Frank Murkowski and an elderly couple (one of them perhaps Mr. Hartman); they discuss President Reagan and electoral politics. The man...
Title by indexer. Sailors marching in a parade at Nome. The sign hanging above the street (top right) reads: "Vote for Edward S. [Orr] Republican nominee for delegate to Congress".
Title taken from caption. View of a woman dressed as a clown with two kids and a man dressed as Uncle Sam in the bed of a truck. The truck is a float participating in the Grotto Lunker parade held in Palmer, Alaska. Banners read: "Businessmen for...
View of a group of men and women gathered around a scale model of a fish trap. The sign in front reads: "This is a fish trap, Alaska's Enemy No. 1, vote oct. 12th, to abolish it". Based on other photographs in the series this photograph was most...