(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;...
(2:57 min) (10 of 19) Driving the Richardson Road #2 Thompson Pass too steep; had to be pulled; didn't have fuel pumps back then. 7 days to Fairbanks. Stopped at the News Miner offices and Pete Steele's Grocery.
(6:42 min) (11 of 19) First jobs in Fairbanks W. F. Thompson, editor of the News Miner, interviewed them about the trip Sept 1, 1923. Rented cabin from Pete Steele. Went to church and got a job the next day. Got a job with the N. C. Co. ...
40 second film clip, color/silent, of statehood celebration activities. Anchorage Daily Times front page. Reading Daily News Miner. Newsboy selling papers. United States and Alaska flags hung from upper stories of building. Fire engine in a...
54 second film clip, black & white/silent, of a miner hauling wood to feed a steam engine. The steam was used to thaw the frozen ground and enable the miners to chip out the rock and earth. A bucket is seen coming out of a mine shaft and...