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Box PCA 70

 Container

Contains 115 Results:

[President Harding holding a hand carved cane]

 Item — Box: PCA 70
Identifier: PCA0070-78
Scope and Contents

(#77-88 are additional views of President Harding's Alaska trip not included in Marguerite Bone Wilcox's album.)

Dates: circa 1923

[Group portrait of (I. to r.) Sec. of Commerce Herbert Hoover, Sec. of Interior Hubert Work, President Harding, Sec. of Interior Henry C. Wallace and Speaker of the House Frederick H. Gillett]

 Item — Box: PCA 70
Identifier: PCA0070-79
Scope and Contents From the Collection: President and Mrs. Harding began their journey at Tacoma, Washington, aboard the U.S. Navy transport HENDERSON. They spent 15 days in the Territory of Alaska, visiting Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla, Willow, Nenana, Fairbanks, Cordova, and Sitka. While in Alaska, President Harding drove the last golden spike in the newly built Alaska Railroad.Photographs numbered 1-76 are affixed to the original album pages and are located in the...
Dates: circa 1923

[Decorated speaker's platform, Ketchikan; cornerstone ceremonies for new Masonic Temple; unidentified man speaking]

 Item — Box: PCA 70
Identifier: PCA0070-80
Scope and Contents From the Collection: President and Mrs. Harding began their journey at Tacoma, Washington, aboard the U.S. Navy transport HENDERSON. They spent 15 days in the Territory of Alaska, visiting Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla, Willow, Nenana, Fairbanks, Cordova, and Sitka. While in Alaska, President Harding drove the last golden spike in the newly built Alaska Railroad.Photographs numbered 1-76 are affixed to the original album pages and are located in the...
Dates: circa 1923

[Mrs. Harding, seated, with President Harding standing to her right]

 Item — Box: PCA 70
Identifier: PCA0070-81
Scope and Contents From the Collection: President and Mrs. Harding began their journey at Tacoma, Washington, aboard the U.S. Navy transport HENDERSON. They spent 15 days in the Territory of Alaska, visiting Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla, Willow, Nenana, Fairbanks, Cordova, and Sitka. While in Alaska, President Harding drove the last golden spike in the newly built Alaska Railroad.Photographs numbered 1-76 are affixed to the original album pages and are located in the...
Dates: circa 1923

[Young Indian girl and boy watching ceremonies at Wrangell during President Harding's visit]

 Item — Box: PCA 70
Identifier: PCA0070-82
Scope and Contents From the Collection: President and Mrs. Harding began their journey at Tacoma, Washington, aboard the U.S. Navy transport HENDERSON. They spent 15 days in the Territory of Alaska, visiting Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla, Willow, Nenana, Fairbanks, Cordova, and Sitka. While in Alaska, President Harding drove the last golden spike in the newly built Alaska Railroad.Photographs numbered 1-76 are affixed to the original album pages and are located in the...
Dates: circa 1923

[President and Mrs. Harding at Mendenhall Glacier; other people in attendance are Gov. Bone and daughter Marguerite, right]

 Item — Box: PCA 70
Identifier: PCA0070-83
Scope and Contents From the Collection: President and Mrs. Harding began their journey at Tacoma, Washington, aboard the U.S. Navy transport HENDERSON. They spent 15 days in the Territory of Alaska, visiting Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla, Willow, Nenana, Fairbanks, Cordova, and Sitka. While in Alaska, President Harding drove the last golden spike in the newly built Alaska Railroad.Photographs numbered 1-76 are affixed to the original album pages and are located in the...
Dates: circa 1923

[President Harding painting siding of new railroad section house at Willow; Fred Hamilton, right]

 Item — Box: PCA 70
Identifier: PCA0070-84
Scope and Contents From the Collection: President and Mrs. Harding began their journey at Tacoma, Washington, aboard the U.S. Navy transport HENDERSON. They spent 15 days in the Territory of Alaska, visiting Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla, Willow, Nenana, Fairbanks, Cordova, and Sitka. While in Alaska, President Harding drove the last golden spike in the newly built Alaska Railroad.Photographs numbered 1-76 are affixed to the original album pages and are located in the...
Dates: circa 1923

[President Harding driving in golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad; Nenana, July 15, 1923], 1923-07-15

 Item — Box: PCA 70
Identifier: PCA0070-85
Scope and Contents From the Collection: President and Mrs. Harding began their journey at Tacoma, Washington, aboard the U.S. Navy transport HENDERSON. They spent 15 days in the Territory of Alaska, visiting Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla, Willow, Nenana, Fairbanks, Cordova, and Sitka. While in Alaska, President Harding drove the last golden spike in the newly built Alaska Railroad.Photographs numbered 1-76 are affixed to the original album pages and are located in the...
Dates: 1923-07-15

[President and Mrs. Harding inspecting a replica of the Nenana bridge, a gift presented to them]

 Item — Box: PCA 70
Identifier: PCA0070-86
Scope and Contents From the Collection: President and Mrs. Harding began their journey at Tacoma, Washington, aboard the U.S. Navy transport HENDERSON. They spent 15 days in the Territory of Alaska, visiting Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla, Willow, Nenana, Fairbanks, Cordova, and Sitka. While in Alaska, President Harding drove the last golden spike in the newly built Alaska Railroad.Photographs numbered 1-76 are affixed to the original album pages and are located in the...
Dates: circa 1923

[Gov. Bone, left, with President Harding as they inspect a display of vegetables grown in Fairbanks; unidentified man, right]

 Item — Box: PCA 70
Identifier: PCA0070-87
Scope and Contents From the Collection: President and Mrs. Harding began their journey at Tacoma, Washington, aboard the U.S. Navy transport HENDERSON. They spent 15 days in the Territory of Alaska, visiting Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla, Willow, Nenana, Fairbanks, Cordova, and Sitka. While in Alaska, President Harding drove the last golden spike in the newly built Alaska Railroad.Photographs numbered 1-76 are affixed to the original album pages and are located in the...
Dates: circa 1923