(3:01 min.) (03 of 12) Ada studying Statehood Packets Hawaii -- Statehood for Constitutional Convention; State Constitutions -- compared all articles; Treaty -- Russia and the US; purchase of Alaska -- 1867; Article 3 -- Alaskans could choose...
(3:08 min) (18 of 19) Put the gas car out of business Cost $0.25 a round trip in gas between the school and Fairbanks. Fall of 1932 he ordered a 32 passenger bus. Ran it as a bus in the winter and switched the chassis to a cargo vehicle for...
(5:24 min.) (05 of 24) 05 Move West Moved west at about age 19 or 20. Started with the Alaska Steamship Co. as a summer hire -- back then the company wanted you to start at the bottom and work your way up. Started as utility man doing...
(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...
(6:56 min.) (23 of 24) 23 Cannery runs
A ship would take up the crews and the empty cans in the spring. Filipino workers were in the majority. In the fall, the cannery workers and the fish would come back. The Swedish fishermen were...
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Naticcha. S. J., Cleveland, Ohio
Janousek, R. C., Omaha, Neb.
Madsen, C. E., Karstad, Minn.
Chavez, L. R., Lompac, Calif.
Karselsky, A., Dothan, Ala.
Lt (jg) R. C. Viets, Vincennes, Ind.
Comdr....
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.
55-second, color/silent film clip of Gold Dredge 6 being moved. The clip shows a fleet of caterpillars (tractors) pulling dredge 6 across the country side, to Sheep Creek during a snow fall. .
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Full caption reads:
"Joe Amarok, Eskimo leader from Nome, Alaska sprinkled water from the Bering Sea on the nose of the Clipper North Wind, first of Pan American World Airways scheduled DC-4s to arrive...