(5:52 min) (17 of 19) Business continues to grow Bought out Mr. Goes and Mr. Pearl. Bought out the bus service to the University. In 1931, took over Ravell Brothers and ran freight between Valdez and Fairbanks. Fall of 1931, bought a...
(7:24 min) (01 of 19) Early years Born in small town in Illinois on a farm. Saw a tractor as a great improvement. His father said it was not going to be around too long. Couldn't agree with father on other things so took first opportunity...
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...
Images include people departing Brill Car (trolley) from Fairbanks at the College railroad station at the Alaska Agricultural College and School of mines (University of Alaska Fairbanks). Among the...
64 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a University of Alaska graduation procession. People in academic gowns march out of a campus building, around the corner and into another building. The dignitaries include Ernest Gruening and Charles...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
"Presentation of the Col. Raul Esteves Cup to Camp "El Caribe" of the P. R. R. A.--the presentation is being made by Dr. Ernest H. Gruening, Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions and Administratory of the P. R. R. A. to...
Aerial view of Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Colony homes and tents at Palmer, Alaska. Knik River is in distance. From verso: "Sept. 22, 1935. Palmer, Matanuska Valley. Air view 2500 feet up. Tent camp. 10 transient workers....
Aerial view of Matanuska Valley, Alaska, near Palmer, Alaska. Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Colony homes and tents barely visible through trees. Part of airplane visible at top right. From verso: "Palmer, Alaska. 9/22/35....
Almer J. Peterson standing next to wash tub and washboard doing laundry in Palmer (known earlier as Warton), Alaska, with buildings in background. Buildings are at Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colony. From verso:...
Almer J. Peterson, carpenter for Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Colonization Project, standing in front of his law office in Palmer, Alaska. From verso: "Palmer, Alaska. Sept. 22, 1935. Carpenter, lawyer & druggist. Oldest...
Cataloguer's note: A glimpse of life in the sub-arctic -- One of the many creative ways of using man's best friend. This photograph shows how dogs (that look like pets), were used as beasts of burden. The picture looks as if it came from the...
Delegates to the Alaskan Constitutional Convention view a musk ox at the University of Alaska Musk Ox Farm during the 10 anniversary celebration of the signing of the states constitution.