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.
The Gold Rush boomtown of Nome on the Seward Peninsula, 1900. Courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library.
Military airplanes on runway with wings folded up, Dutch Harbor, Alaska, circa 1944. ASL-P338-0420, H. Marion Thornton Photograph Collection, Alaska State Library-Historical Collections.
Short accounts written by Alaskan historians about a few topics that reflect Alaska’s varied history. Go to the Alaska Historical Society’s 49 History blog to see more recent and varied essays about Alaskan historical topics.
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