(4:01 min) (01 of 17) Getting to Alaska
Graduated from college wandered around worked in fish industry hitch-hiked up Richardson Highway. Wells Alaska Motors, Aurora Motors, Employment office, Christian Science Reading Room, George...
(4:43 min.) (08 of 27) Start of contracting
First job was building the bridge between Illinois St. and College Road over Noyes Slough. Lots of paperwork, everything was an emergency since there was no experience with how to do the simplest...
(4:58 min.) (08 of 09)
Learning to pilot
Mississippi River; compartments; silt; pilot from Tanana -- Bingo; Fort Yukon; young people; working on river; training vs. trial and error; blueprints; college; getting stuck on the river -- lessons learned
(5:52 min) (17 of 19) Business continues to grow Bought out Mr. Goes and Mr. Pearl. Bought out the bus service to the University. In 1931, took over Ravell Brothers and ran freight between Valdez and Fairbanks. Fall of 1931, bought a...
(6:58 min.) (16 of 28) 16. Virginia speaks about flight instruction
Virginia's first solo flight was on December 7, 1941, but since all flights were canceled that day she had to solo again a week later. Flights were cancelled because of...
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
02 Next step (3:39 min.) (02 of 09) During 1940, the U.S. Government was getting ready for war -- the Civilian Pilot Training program was started. They allowed one woman in each class of ten. While at Marshall College she learned how to do...
41 second film clip, black & white/silent. Scenes from the College train station. The self powered rail car from the J. G. Brill Company, or Brill car, ran between College and Fairbanks. The passengers may be students communting between...
Images include people departing Brill Car (trolley) from Fairbanks at the College railroad station at the Alaska Agricultural College and School of mines (University of Alaska Fairbanks). Among the...
A sign offering a chance to win a car. The sign reads "Win this Beautiful '58 Cadillac. $1Tickets on Sale Everywhere. Tanana Valley Fair, Aug 14-15-16-17. Drawing August 17 9pm. Tanana Valley Fairgrounds 2 Mile College Road."
Aerial view of Anchorage Community College campus during construction in Anchorage, Alaska. Aug. 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Aerial view of Anchorage Community College campus under construction in Anchorage, Alaska. Aug. 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
By Ernest Gruening, Governor of Alaska, 1939-1953 Alaska the United States colony Keynote address Alaska Constitutional Convention University of Alaska, College, Alaska, November 9, 1955.