From the state archives (featuring Lieutenant Governor (Secretary of State) Robert W. (Bob) Ward at the microphone. Note correction and personal note below.  More historical links).

Collection Name AMRC. Ward Wells Collection
Identifier AMRC-wws-4794-6
Title State of Alaska 23rd oil and gas lease sale.
Description Title taken from sign in photograph. View of 23rd oil and gas lease sale for Alaska inside Sydney Laurence Auditorium in Anchorage, Alaska, with map of North Slope area in Alaska on sign in background. Alaska Governor Keith Miller holds microphone, while Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Kelly stands at far right. Also from sign in photograph: “Map courtesy of Alaska Map Service, Inc. $ ,900,220,590.” From information with photograph: “Governor Keith Miller speaking. DNR Commissioner Tom Kelly, far right.” Sept. 10, 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8 1/8″ x 10″. (NOTE: CAPTION INCORRECT: SECRETARY OF STATE ROBERT W. (BOB) WARD IS SPEAKING AT THE MICROPHONE, NOT GOVERNOR MILLER.  BOB WAS MY BOSS DURING MOST OF THE 70S DECADE WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT OF ALASKAN ARCTIC GAS PIPELINE COMPANY. THE PHOTOGRAPHER, WARD WELLS WAS A CLOSE FRIEND AND MENTOR OF MINE.  -DH)
Creator Wells, Ward W.
Subject.TGM Petroleum industry
Petroleum leases
Men
Women
Maps
Signs (Notices)
Tables
Governors
Government officials
Calculators
Drinking vessels
Pitchers
Subject.LCSH Microphone
Personal Name Miller, Keith Harvey, 1925-
Kelly, Tom
Corporate Name Alaska. Governor (1969-1970 : Keith Miller IS AN INCORRECT CAPTION: SEE NOTE ABOVE)
Alaska. Dept. of Natural Resources
Alaska Map Service
Location Anchorage (Alaska)
Region Southcentral Alaska
Time Period 1959 and later
Date.original Sept. 10, 1969
Type Image (Photographs)
Ordering & Use https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/collections/rights-reproductions/
Holding Institution Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center. 625 C Street Anchorage, AK 99501 mailto:resourcecenter@anchoragemuseum.org