(4:51 min) (02 of 25) Personal background
office work; Valdez; Ketchikan; steamship company -- like family; spirit of adventure; Alaska Steam -- important community; changes; Fairbanks; Alaska Railroad; competition; freight
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...
49 x 35 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Shows locations of lode claims, trails and cabins. "Compiled from personal and miners' notes and Government surveys." Engraved by Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. In color.
49 x 35 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Shows locations of lode claims, trails and cabins. "Compiled from personal and miners' notes and Government surveys." Engraved by Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. In color.
57 second film clip, black & white with audio. The clip shows damage to four small villages on Kodiak Island by the 1964 earthquake and the resulting tsunami. The audio relates personal experiences of survivors. This is an excerpt from the film...
[Four men in foreground are, left to right; Major General Simon Bolivier Buckner, Lt. Commander J.S. MacKinnon, Lt. Commander Miller, and Commander Foster (personal inspection for Pres. Roosevelt); planes behind men.]
Accession Number: 81-3-5 Descriptive Narrative: "Gold" medal (Novadel) with Man's head (Alexander I ) on one side; Russian inscription on reverse. Contains nickel and copper with small amounts of gold and silver. Inscription: To Tamari...
Berle Mercer talks about Berle talks about growing up in Thedford, Nebraska and first coming to Alaska with the Army, growing up in Nebraska, and Claire, growing up in New York, meeting and having a double wedding with their twins,settling in the...