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Alaska and Its Wilds

Alaska became the 49th state on Jan. 3, 1959.

ALASKA — A road sign near Palmer used for target practice, 2001.
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ANAKTUVUK, Alaska — Children play cat and the cradle with their father,
1953.
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ALASKA — A mother and child, 1966.

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FORT YUKON, Alaska — Louise Peter, an Athabasca Indian, in her salmon

smokehouse, 1995.
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ALASKA — A small fishing boat off the face of the South Sawyer Glacier in
the Tracy Arm Fjord, south of Juneau.
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ALASKA — Local fishermen at Prince William Sound help clean up the

beaches after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, 1989.
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COLVILLE-DELTA, Alaska — Jim and Teena Helmericks' homestead near

Prudhoe Bay, 1995.
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ALASKA — Drivers at a rest stop, 1951.

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ALASKA — Kachemak Bay, 1995.

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ALASKA — Salmon fishing in Kachemak Bay, 1995.

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ALASKA — Marty Ault and Annette Baker in their shack on Elliot Highway,
north of Fairbanks, 1995.
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ALASKA — Fishermen on the Kenai River hope to catch a record-breaking

king salmon, which can weigh up to 100 pounds, 2001.
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ALASKA — The Alaska Pipeline between Prudhoe and Valdez, 1995.

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NOME, Alaska — Children with a trampoline, 1982.

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SKAGWAY, Alaska — A husky in the back of a truck, 1977.

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