(7:00 min.) (04 of 12) Weather at Amchitka and railroad to bering sea Apr '42 Engineers got word from Service and Supply (Roosevelt) find Railroad route from Fairbanks to sea.--Town meeting of the 3000 population of Fairbanks--Lots of...
Dorothy Murphy, Miss Alaska, displaying George Eaton's gold nugget watch chain during a visit to Wiseman, Alaska. From verso: "George Eaton, with his famous gold nugget watch chain and Dorothy Murphy, of Fairbanks -- taken at Wiseman in March 1938...
Title from cataloger notes. Full cataloger notes read: "Former Richardson Road House seventy miles south of Fairbanks - August 1927, Paul Greimann standing on front steps."
Title taken from verso. View of steam shovel and men at Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction site where pipe will pass under Steese Highway at Goldstream Creek near Fairbanks, Alaska. June 1975. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph...
(2:37 min.) (01 of 12) Ada's Background and Statehood Nome -- born; education -- Nome; Boston Tea Party -- learned in fourth grade; "taxation without representation"; Statehood; married -- aviation in Alaska; three children -- raised;...
(3:11 min.) (08 of 12) Pork-Barrel appointment to judgeships and reactions to Ada being a part of the Constitutional Convention Fairbanks -- before Statehood; territorial form of government -- people had no voice; Washington DC -- grant favors;...
Title taken from back of photograph. "Randy Boyd (L) U of A and Jim Lee (R) Western Washington State. (25) Rich Blank WW, (33) Scott Loll U of A. December 1 - 2 - 1967."
Title taken from front. Men standing on front steps of Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (later, University of Alaska Fairbanks) at College (later known as Fairbanks), Alaska, with car at right. Also from front: "A.E.C. G2031. Sep. 7,...
Shows extent of flood waters in the Fairbanks region, 1967. Includes text describing flood, graphs, charts, illustrations, index map and legend. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Hydrolic investigations, Atlas HA-294." Map is 46 x...
(6:26 min.) (13 of 20) Train/ship and labor issues--train/ship needed to cut cost--merchants advertised in Anchorage based on what was in the shipment--guaranteed delivery dates (kinda)--railbelt--Anchorage origins--Distribution problems for...
Title taken from back of photograph. Cataloguer's note: Otto W. Geist came to Alaska in 1923. Born in Bavaria Austria, he was a veteran of the German army as well as the U.S. Army. He was a mechanic and a skilled truck driver before he...
Title taken from caption on Album. "Moses Cruikshank, was a youth of Fort Yukon he had spent nine years at St. Mark's Mission. He was big, strong and reliable and knew dogs and sledding. He was Archdeacon Drane's assistant and trail companion,...
Title taken from caption on Album. "Burial of Chief David of Tetlin May 17th, 1919". [From the Archdeacon Drane's (travel) journal: "Just after the death of the benevolent and much loved Chief David, the men and women of the village...
Title taken from caption on Album. "The people of Tetlin. Jack Singlet & Ole Esbloom to the right ". On the occasion of the funeral ceremony for Chief David of Tetlin. From the Archdeacon Drane's (travel) journal: "Ole Esbloom the trader...