
![]() According to the Associated Press caption on this photograph, “This helicopter view of the Alaska 67 Centennial Exposition grounds shows part of the 42-acre site, two miles west of downtown Fairbanks. The $5 million complex includes a mining valley, pioneer boom town, a Native village, riverboat, narrow gauge railway and a civic center featuring a display of Alaskan art.” Today, what is now called Pioneer Park has been enhanced with additions such as an aviation museum, a pioneer life museum, a salmon bake and the railroad car used by President Warren G. Harding when he visited Alaska in 1923.
—Candy Waugaman
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![]() This early aerial photo postcard of the University of Alaska campus was taken by Becker Photo and mailed
Oct. 6, 1936. The message on the postcard says “I am still trying to get some knowledge this time at the University of Alaska here. Enrolled a week ago. Like it fine.” Today’s university would fill the frame of this photograph.
—Candy Waugaman
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