Collection Name:

Alaska State Library Subject File. Photographs. ASL.

Identifier:

ASL-AlaskaStatehood-9

Title:

Alaska's three prospective congressmen.

Description:

Accompanying new item: Alaska's three prospective congressmen, shown with

optimistic car sticker, are (from left), Senator-elect Ernest Gruening,

Representative-elect Ralph Rivers, and Senator-elect William Egan. The women

are Mrs. Rivers (left) and Mrs. Egan. They averaged 300 miles a day on trip from

Fairbanks, used only snow tires with no chains, drove in 60-below-zero temperature.

Subject.TGM:

Governors
Legislators
Spouses
Automobiles
Statehood

Personal Name:

Egan, William A.
Egan, Neva
Gruening, Ernest, 1887-1974
Rivers, Ralph J., 1903-
Rivers, Mrs. Ralph J.

Region:

Alaska

Time Period:

1939 to 1959

Date.original:

1959?

Type:

Image (Photographs)
Image (Group portraits)

Ordering & Use:

http://library.state.ak.us/vilda_rights.html

Holding Institution:

Alaska State Library - Historical Collections, PO Box 110571,

Juneau AK 99811-0571
mailto:ASL.Historical@eed.state.ak.us