President Harding's Voyage of Understanding, Cordova, Alaska, Side A

This stereograph by Keystone View Company Shows members of President Warren G. Harding's "Voyage of Understanding" party sitting in the back of an automobile. Then-Secretary of Commerce and future president Herbert Hoover is present in the photo. The Voyage of Understanding was the name given to Harding's tour of the western United States and Alaska. Harding was the first sitting president to visit Alaska. The caption reads: "The Presidential Party on Hay Rack Special at Cordova, Alaska."