Title from verso: Alaska Road Commission [garage?] at Fairbanks Alaska. Sign above door reads: Alaska Road Commission. Identified on verso: Clyde Collins, George Myers, Ves [?] McMillen, Archie Collins, Tommy Carr, Harold Arneson.
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. 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...
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. ...
Photograph shows man near front of the ARR engine 1 and the Alaska Railroad streamline Aurora. The north side of the old Fairbanks Alaska Railroad Depot is seen to the right of the train cars.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows writing on the side of the airplane the "Winnie Mae". The writing is a list of locations. It reads: "New York U.S.A., Harbor Grace N.F., Chester England, Hanover Germany, Berlin Germany, Moscow Russia, Novo...
Title from caption. Photograph of a 4th of July crowd in Fairbanks, Alaska. Visible is the Fairbanks waterfront, canoes and sternwheelers, and the bridge. The Northern Commercial Co. is visible at the right of the photo.
Title from image. Photograph of the Fairbanks waterfront as seen from across the Chena River. Visible are Motel Northern, The Northern Commercial Co., the sternwheeler Isabelle, Sargent & Pinska, Solly's Cigars & Tobacco, The Horseshoe, The...
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.
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 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 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 indexer. Photograph shows people standing near a Ford Tri-Motor airplane on skis in Kotzebue. Caption under photograph reads "Kotzebue 1937 - preparing for trip to Barrow".
The airplane tail number is NC 8419 and the airplane also...
(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