(4:14 min.) (07 of 08) 7. Population dislocation. Average person in Anchorage has lived here less than five years, only came to take advantage of the money, and plans to retire elsewhere. The less educated people raised in rural Alaska...
(5:35 min.) (06 of 08) 6. Urban-rural divide The divide was not an issue until the majority of population moved to the city. Clem sees states outside Alaska as being willing to take advantage of Alaska's resources. Diane thinks that many...
(7:00 min.) (04 of 12) Weather at Amchitka and railroad to bering sea Apr '42 Engineers got word from Service and Supply (Roosevelt) find Railroad route from Fairbanks to sea.--Town meeting of the 3000 population of Fairbanks--Lots of...
(Audio, 3 min 31 sec) Stanton Patty is interviewed by William Schneider in Vancouver, Washington, on April 30, 2012. The interview includes memories of growing up in Fairbanks between World War I and World War II, employment in mining industry,...
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...
Description of community from 1932 report: "Hyder is entirely a mining town whose growth depends upon the restoration of the value of silver. Its population is made up of about 30 families, children, and the remainder consists of prospectors;...
Eight students pose along the fence outside the McCarthy School; according to the teacher's report in the Historical Record, McCarthy "is an outfitting point for miners, hunters, trappers, and prospectors. It started as an outgrowth of the...
Includes index to districts, capes/points, islands, lakes, mountains, rivers and towns. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. From Rand McNally & Co.'s Indexed Atlas of the World. Inset: [Western Aleutian Islands]. Page 459. Text on verso...
Includes index to districts, capes/points, islands, lakes, mountains, rivers and towns. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. From Rand McNally & Co.'s Indexed Atlas of the World. Inset: [Western Aleutian Islands]. Page 459. Text on verso...
Includes list of chief cities and population figures. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Page 76 from Rand McNally's New ideal state and county survey and atlas. Inset: [Western Aleutian Islands]. On verso (p. 75) is map of State of...
Includes list of chief cities with population figures. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Pages 96-97. Maps of Tacoma, Washington and Portland, Oregon on verso. In color.
Published in [Chicago] by Geo. F. Cram in [188-?]. ...
Originally published in Barron's National Financial Weekly, v. III, no. 32, Aug. 6, 1923; the author questions why Alaska's population and industry had not grown in proportion to its vast resources