(5:27 min) (09 of 27) Flying for fur buyers
Leo Kay member of the Koslosky family. Fairbanks, Ruby, Hughes, Kobuk, Shungnak, Kiana, Kotzebue then Nome. Maime Wig's Roadhouse ran into Jim McGoffin, & (Muskrat) Johnnie Schwagler. Took off...
(5:35 min.) (08 of 24) 08 Spring preparations. Rust preventation on ship. Liked to work on the SS Aleutian -- a nice ship and a fast one. Assistant Steward assisted passengers, cleaned cabins before the next passengers were brought aboard,...
(6:50 min.) (10 of 27) Right-of-way issues
Standards of alignment, grade & bridges. Some were location dependent. Engineers' suggestions and approval process, no requirement for acquiring right-of-way. People always wanted roads to their...
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...
"The John Scheele' home at Eagle, Alaska. Many of the perishables sold in the trading post, down on the water front were stored in the basement here to be sure they would not freeze, and be ruined." A panoramic view of John Scheele's home.
"The river steamer Yukon, with barge, bringing supplies for Ott and Scheel at Eagle, Alaska. June 4th 1928. You can be sure all the residents able to walk were down there to welcome her. The huge rock bluff called Chutatutla in the background." ...