Return to: The Road to Statehood - Alaska's governor, Mike Stepovich, and congressional advocates for statehood for the northern territory were jubilant after Senate passage of the Alaskan statehood bill.
Front page of Anchorage Daily Times, Saturday, January 3, 1959, with headline in which President Eisenhower declares Alaska statehood. From verso: "Anchorage - 1959." Jan. 3, 1959. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".