(2:20 min.) (02 of 12) Toast Mistress Club and the Statehood Issue debating committee; debate -- Statehood issue; rules; politics, religion; appoint a committee to study issue of Statehood; too political -- couldn't study Statehood; Dr. Moberg...
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...
70 second, black & white/silent film clip of the 1935-1936 Fairbanks Ice Carnival parade. Floats and their sponsors include: a basketball team in their bus, Waechter Brothers Meat Co., Creamers Dairy, what looks like a horse drawn coach, a dog...
91 second, black & white/silent, film clip of traveling along the Richardson Highway. Included are scenes of a stagecoach, an unidentified community, an airplane, a river, mountains and a glacier. Roadhouses or other buildings bear large signs with...
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Clipping from a publication of the alter of St. Luke's Chapel in Salchaket (Aurora Lodge), Alaska with the following caption: The alter is hand-carved and the frontal was made by the indian women of moose hide, with the lettering and border done in...