(3:16 min) (03 of 17) Army, teaching and Fish & Game Trained in Sta. Maria California (Moffitt Field) finished in 1942. James C. Ryan old instructor talked about jobs. Got out of Army during WWII to teach school, took Gov. Gruening and Rep....
(3:28 min.) (13 of 28) 13. Whitehorse and Fairbanks
George stayed awhile in Seattle and saw Boeing in full wartime production. Eighteen to twenty B-17's a day were produced. He went to Whitehorse, YT. Bill Lavery was a pilot for Morrison...
(5:56 min.) (01 of 12) Background and arrival in Alaska Auburn University--TVA heavy construction--B. B. Tally Construction quartermaster--Ladd Field construction Jan '41-- Four total projects Ladd Field, Ft. Richardson, Elmendorf and Yakutat &...
(7:29 min) (10 of 17) Exciting and scary situations
Teaching in Ft. Yukon, went to Fairbanks then headed back with heavy load. Ft. Yukon ice fogged in, headed back to Fairbanks, White Mountains were fogged in too, had to climb over top. ...
(Audio, 3 min 31 sec) Stanton Patty is interviewed by William Schneider in Vancouver, Washington, on April 30, 2012. The interview includes memories of growing up in Fairbanks between World War I and World War II, employment in mining industry,...
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...
1 min, 13 sec film clip, black & white/sound. Barbara Lindberg, being interviewed, talks about her memories of Weeks Field. The audio may come from an interview between Barbara Lindberg and Margaret Van Cleve on April 27, 1994.
115 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame, "Phillips Collection." Film shows a man servicing and refueling a Piper PA-16 airplane on skis at Phillips Field in Fairbanks, then the plane taking off. Airplane's N-number is N5776H.
12 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection (Alaska Review #17, 1978)". Film shows a Cessna 185 landing at Merrill Field in Anchorage.
13 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection (Alaska Review #17,1978)". Film shows planes landing at Merrill Field in Anchorage and a woman sitting the air traffic control tower.
193 second film clip, color/silent. Title frame has very little information. Film shows a group of men playing football outside in the snow. One player is injured and is carried off the field on a stretcher. They all appear to be very cold.
2 min, 38 sec film clip, color/silent. Men walk around Weeks Field and the hangars, talk with one another, take photographs, apparently consult maps or other papers, and prepare to see Jimmie Mattern pilot "The Texan" away.
26 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Dickson Collection". Film shows the Star Airlines fleet lined up at Merrill Field, a person in walking in the background. The film clip is too dark to see the N-Numbers.
277 second film clip, black & white and color/silent of football in Fairbanks during the 1940's-1950's. Two sections one shot in winter with lots of snow on the field and the second shot durng the fall of the year.