(4:51 min) (02 of 25) Personal background
office work; Valdez; Ketchikan; steamship company -- like family; spirit of adventure; Alaska Steam -- important community; changes; Fairbanks; Alaska Railroad; competition; freight
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Photograph of ski-mounted Pilgrim 100B plane at Weeks Field. Smoke stacks in a background are from the Chena River Powerplant. Full caption reads:
"Pilgrim 100B --- 750 H P Wright Cyclone Engine. ...
A large two story log building located between Delta and Fairbanks, Alaska at milepost 294 on the Richardson Highway as seen from the Richardson Highway looking toward the Richardson Roadhouse. Text on front of image: "Fairbanks Studio. Richardson...
Interior view of the Empress Theater, erected 1927. Written on the right side is The Empress Fairbanks Alaska. World's Farthest North Theater. Fireproof Construction Throughout. Erected 1927.
The title taken from caption. "Ice Man Fairbanks Alaska A.J.P." A horse drawn wagon is pulled up in front of "Smith's Gun Store." This appears to be the wagon of Murray C. Smith Ice, located at 207 1st Avenue. Smith harvested and...
Title by cataloguer. "Photo by Vern Francis, Fairbanks Alaska Ref No. 600522-5." A group of University of Alaska Fairbanks officials and faculty appear to be heading the procession during a graduation ceremony. They are seen here walking up a...
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,...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
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,...
Title from album caption Full caption: "From deck of S.S. BERTHA , at anchor, Knik Arm, Cook Inlet, April 28, 1912. Present summer terminal of Alaskan R.R. to Fairbanks Alaska. #1. Didn't look any too good. McNeil snap shot"
Title from caption. Image shows two yaks standing before a wooden fence. A farm building is visible in the background. The U.S. Experimental Farm depicted here became the Agricultural Experiment Station at the Alaska Agricultural College and...
Title from caption. Photograph shows a large group of women and two men dressed nicely. They appear to be members of the Order of the Eastern Star. One women is named on the photograph, Mrs. W. N. Rolston marked by an "x", on the verso her...
Title from caption. Writing below the image says, "Slaterville." Writing on verso states, "Fairbanks, Slaterville - House still standing, 1962. Charlie Slater home." Image shows stacks of oats in a mowed field. Two horses harnessed to a...
Title from caption. "Celebrating 4th July at Fairbanks Alaska, 1904. L.E. Robertson, Photo." Panoramic photograph of the Independence Day celebrations in Fairbanks, 1904. A crowd is gathered around the Fairbanks Court House. City hall is a...
Title from caption. "Fairbanks Alaska from across Chena River. July 25th 1905." Other writings on the photograph: "No. 10385" and "Copyright 1905 By L.E. Robertson." Panoramic photograph of Fairbanks from the north side of the Chena River.