Eskimo men in kayaks, Noatak, Alaska, circa 1929. Edward S. Curtis Collection, Library of Congress Digital Collections.

Iñupiaq men in qayaqs, Noatak, Alaska, circa 1929. Edward S. Curtis Collection, Library of Congress Digital Collections.

Crossing the Chilkoot Pass, circa 1898. Courtesy Candy Waugaman and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.

Crossing the Chilkoot Pass, circa 1898. Courtesy Candy Waugaman and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.

The gold rush boomtown of Nome on the Seward Peninsula, 1900. Courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library.

The Gold Rush boomtown of Nome on the Seward Peninsula, 1900. Courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library.

Anniversaries

The Alaska Historical Society would like to recognize the following milestones in our state’s history being celebrated in 2017:

150th Anniversary of the Treaty of Cession

75th Anniversary of the Alaska Highway

100th Anniversary of the University of Alaska

100th Anniversary of Denali National Park

50th Anniversary of the Alaska Historical Society: “The Founding of the Alaska Historical Society, 1967–1968” by Ross Coen in Alaska History, Volume 31, Number 2, Fall 2016.

75th Anniversary of the Bombing of Dutch Harbor in World War II, June 1942