Wednesday, January 31, 2007

The Alaska Purchase Centennial Collection

This website is one of the best places to find photographs of Alaska and its history. The website has cataloged a huge assortment of photographs and digitized them allowing the viewer to choose a subject and view a number of pictures pertaining to it. The images provided include portraits, newspapers, maps, and pictures of subjects dealing with the gold rush, native life, fishing and many more. The website also offers links to other websites that provide accompanying historical narrative which couple to complete the historical experience.

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