(3:08 min) (18 of 19) Put the gas car out of business Cost $0.25 a round trip in gas between the school and Fairbanks. Fall of 1932 he ordered a 32 passenger bus. Ran it as a bus in the winter and switched the chassis to a cargo vehicle for...
(7:03 min.) (06 of 27) Alaska Road Commission II
Commission members lived in Alaska, but had to get funding from Congress. Later got funding from the Departments of Commerce and Interior. Head of the commission was Richardson, a personable...
31 second, black & white/silent film clip of a Gorst Air Transport's Loening Air Yacht. It taxies on water and pulls up to a beach. Several adults and children come up to the plane.
37 second, black & white/silent, film clip of two people standing and pointing outside of what might be the Forget-Me-Not Emporium in Anchorage. A second section of film shows a man shoveling coal from the back of a Alaska Transfer Company coal...