(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...
70 second, black & white/silent film clip of the 1935-1936 Fairbanks Ice Carnival parade. Floats and their sponsors include: a basketball team in their bus, Waechter Brothers Meat Co., Creamers Dairy, what looks like a horse drawn coach, a dog...
A tractor with a blade clears snow from the Jesse Lee Home grounds east of Goode Hall in Seward, Alaska. From verso: "Carrie Ida Pierce Seward, Alaska, Box 516." 1946-1955. Original photograph size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/4".
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Men loading frozen reindeer onto Northern Consolidated Airlines floatplane from wagon at U.S. Government Reindeer Project complex at Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island...
Men work to organize supplies; tractor trailer transports load of boxes; pyramid tents erected in background; American flag raised on power pole over a captured bunker [machine gun nest] Photographer's number 5594
One boy, possibly Herbert Middleton, drives tractor with plow and another follows behind at Middleton farm on Fritz Creek Road, Homer, Alaska. Summer 1952. Photographer: Robert Mounteer. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Photo caption reads "Left to right: Ford Bectel, Russ Dow, Fritz at Fishhook [Inn]." View of three men standing in front of a tractor with three cars and a bus behind it. The bus has the logo "Pioneer Line" printed above the back window. There are...
Photo caption reads "The 'cat' in front of the bunkhouse at Independence Mine." View of a tractor parked in front of the bunkhouse at the Independence Mine.