(4:02 min) (02 of 17) First job Bill Shoddy & George Gilbertson. Roomed at Francis Doyle's boarding house now National Bank of Alaska, in the Northward Building-$68 a month. Went to look at the University, if he enrolled at University room...
(5:36 min.) (18 of 28) 18. Virginia's students
Virginia's students were varied -- a man who became a jet pilot, a prostitute, and a construction worker named Bullwinkle. She discusses some of her flights to Manly and other interior...
(6:47 min) (24 of 28) 24. DC-3 training
George met a Pan Am Clipper pilot who set him up for training at LaGuardia Airport. He was leasing a Pan Am DC-3 but the corporate heads cancelled the deal. Bill Conrad was the instructor George went...
41 second film clip, black & white/silent. Scenes from the College train station. The self powered rail car from the J. G. Brill Company, or Brill car, ran between College and Fairbanks. The passengers may be students communting between...
57 second, color and B&W/silent film clip. Shows the male students from Eklutna Boarding School working in the field, clearing the land and hauling lumber.
59-second, color/B&W/silent film clip. Depicts the older and younger students engaged in numerous activities in the school auditorium such as playing ball, dancing, performing Alaska Native games (including the high kick), as well as other...
"An unusual record of achievement has been established by eight native Alaskans, who were graduated August 10 by the RCA Institutes in New York. Members of a pilot group, sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, they scored a notable success in...
A group of boys stand on the steps to one of the buildings at the Jesse Lee home in Seward, Alaska. From verso: "Victor Ashenfelter, Frank Trigg, Gordon Heinrich, Peto (Peter) Metiggorue [sp?], Billy Kochutin, Fred Hovercamp, Jacob Sheldon, House...
A large group of children from the Jesse Lee Home pose with a woman in front of a bus on the east side of Goode Hall at the Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska. Note the camouflage painting on the building in the background. From verso: "Carrie Ida...
A list of 1950 graduates of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, from the commencement program. Richard Ted Blue; Nickolai Eidem; Ethel Irene Cornue; Dale Malcolm Dahl; Suzanne S Hall; Milton H Lightwood Jr; Charles V Lucier; Mary Ann K S McCall;...
A man [the teacher?] stands outside school; children in the background; in 1942, the school enrollment was 11 students; the teacher reported that, although the view was fine, the wind was terrible