(3:36 min) (02 of 19) Young adult #1 Got a job CB& Q railroad working on a coal chute. Next, had to wipe the locomotives down. Went to help Uncle thresh grain. Went home to shuck corn and went north.
(4:03 min) (03 of 19) Young adult #2 Traveled north. Shucked corn and by the end he was averaging 95 bushels a day. Went back home and got a job with his brother-in-law on a dairy farm. Took a class to become a railroad fireman. Train...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
View of six women dressed in period costumes in Skagway, Alaska. From front: "Skagway Gals of [18]98". From verso: "Chris McClain, some of the gals". 1958. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2". Women in photo identified as (left to right):...
Title taken from verso. View of Mrs. Gilford Lemon standing among corn stalks on her farm in Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from verso: "Raised corn and also ripened it." 1936. Photographer: Almer J. Peterson.
View of boxes in an a damaged warehouse in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Labels on boxes are mostly obscured. One label reads, in part, Rose Dale Corn.
Title taken from verso. Man standing next to corn grown on U.S. Agricultural Experiment Farm, Fairbanks, Alaska. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. 1920's. Original photograph size: 4 1/4" x 2 1/2".
Title from sign on building Men outside of store advertising "Groceries & Gents' Clothing and Ladies' Furnishings and Dry Goods" Supplies, including bags of flour, oats, rice, beans, and sugar, and crates of spices, corn starch, potatoes,...