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.
Close up of top of Seward’s Pole in Saxman, Alaska. The pole was carved by Stephen Jackson. Photo by Hall Anderson, used with permission.
The Alaska Historical Society is pleased to announce that the National Council on Public History just published an article “Sesquicentennial Matters in Alaska” by Anna Lee Hirschi, our contractor for Alaska’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Alaska Treaty of Cession.
