"Alaskan Salmon Looks Good to President and Mrs. Harding at Metlakatla, Alaska."

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Stereograph mounted on grey card with rounded corners; view of President and Mrs. Harding inspecting a salmon held up by an unidentified man at Annette Island Packing Co.; printed on left "Keystone View Company/ COPYRIGHTED/ Manufactureres MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers"; printed on right "Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y., Portland,/ Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus."; printed on bottom "18514 - Alaskan Salmon Looks Good to President and Mrs. Harding at Metlakatla, Alaska."; printed on back "18514/ ALASKAN SALMON LOOKS GOOD TO/ PRESIDENT AND MRS. HARDING AT/ METLAKATLA, ALASKA./ President Harding is now on Alaskan soil./ He is the first President to visit Alaska, our/ greatest outlying possession, while in office. His/ program of travel and speech-making on this/ tour is very extensive and covers not only Alaska/ but many western points within the boundaries of/ the United States of scenic and industrial inter-/ est. The purposes of this tour are two. (a) To/ learn at first hand of the resources and economic/ conditions of the points visited ; and (b) to be-/ come acquainted with the people along the route/ and to give them his viewpoint of what the gov-/ ernment is attempting to do for them; what it/ has already accomplished; and what it hope to/ accomplish in the near future. Our people, gen-/ erally speaking, believe in our government, honor/ the head of our government, and listen with re-/ spect, if not with thorough accord, to what the/ President may say./ It would be well if all our people, including/ the President, Congress and others in authority,/ might have complete and definite information/ concerning Alaska. You may not know, but if it/ were possible to pick Alaska up and place it on/ the United States, its boundaries would extend/ from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Not only has/ Alaska a great extent of territory, but it has sev-/ eral valuable resources. Enough salmon have al-/ ready been caught in Alaskan waters to pay the/ purchase price for the territory. In addition,/ other immensely valuable products of Alaska are/ lumber, fur, seal, gold, coal, iron and probably oil./ Copyright by The Keystone View Company."