View of six women standing in front of a log cabin style building, with a large animal trap and a sign for the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce hanging on the wall behind them in Fairbanks, Alaska. This was the first meeting of the Alaska Press Women....
Blanche Louise Preston McSmith represented Anchorage in the House of Representatives during the second session of the First Alaska Legislature in 1960. Mrs. McSmith was appointed by then-Governor William Egan in January of 1960 to fill out the...