Eisenhower Alaska Statehood Monument in Anchorage [CC]
The monument is located uphill opposite the Anchorage railway station.
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AK History Nuggets - Alaska Statehood
Clips show the celebrations after Alaska was declared a state. Narration briefly describes the events leading up to statehood. The Alaska History Nugget series was created in 2004-2005 as a cooperative project between the University of Alaska Statewide, Alaska Public Broadcasting, and the Alaska Film Archives at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library. The series was produced for broadcast on Alaska One; each 60 second program covers a different Alaskan subject.
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This sequence is an excerpt from AAF-661 held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
Alaska, The 49th State (1959)
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Alaska Statehood Act in the White House allo...HD Stock Footage
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Alaska Statehood Act in the White House allowing Alaska to become the 49th US state.
Exteriors of the White House in Washington DC. Interior of the White House shows US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signing Alaska Statehood Act on July 7, 1958, granting Alaska status as the 49th state as of January 3, 1959. US Vice President Richard Nixon and other officials surround President Eisenhower. Workers work with the US flag showing 49th star added to new staggered star design. Location: Washington DC White House. Date: January 3, 1959.
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ALASKA HAILS STATEHOOD Waiting only a territorial plebiscite to become the nation's 49th State, Alaska goes all out to celebrate with enthusiasm that recalls goldrush days.
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Jubilation Day as Alaska hails Statehood
Alaska hails approval of its Statehood. Alaska wins approval to become the nation's 49th State. Cars seen on the street in Anchorage. A sign reads 'Anchorage-All-America city'. Newspaper headlines read 'We're in'. Children sit with a banner reading '49th State'. A huge star placed on the U.S. flag by a woman who is helped by a fireman. Young women in a convertible celebrate as they pass by Stolt Electric at 1000 East Forth Avenue as wells as Hub Clothing in Anchorage. A man with a stuffed moose with a sign on it that reads, 'Hey Texas, now I'm the biggest bull.' Crowd gathers to watch a bonfire built by Boy Scouts. Sign reads, 'State of Alaska' Location: Anchorage Alaska. Date: July 7, 1958.
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Eisenhower in 1960 Anchorage parade
President Dwight D. Eisenhower waves from an open car in a 1960 parade in Anchorage, Alaska (Color/Silent/16mm film)
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Kenai Fjords National Park:
Holgate, Aialik, Exit, Pederson, and Portage Glaciers
Bald eagle, humpback whale, sea lions, tufted and horned puffins, kittiwakes, rhinoceros auklets, sea otters, mountain goat, Dall’s porpoise
Denali National Park:
Kantishna Roadhouse – gold panning + Iditarod showcase
Moose, arctic ground squirrels, caribou, grizzly bear, porcupine, bald eagle, golden eagle, Dall sheep
Jeep excursion through Alaskan highway
Mt. Denali (formerly Mt. McKinley)
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Eisenhower statehood monument
Anchorage museum
Summer Solstice Festival - Anchorage
Aurora Northern Lights show
Mirror Lake - Palmer
Lodes Gold Hatcher Pass
Matanuska Glacier
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park + Preserve
Copper River Valley + Summit Lake
Midnight Sun Festival - Fairbanks
The North Pole / Santa Claus house
Alaskan Pipeline
Alaska Railroad train
Chugach state park
Turnagain Arm / Seward scenic byway
Wood Bison – Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
McHugh Creek
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Frontiers 140: Bella Hammond's Alaska
Alaska Governor Jay Hammond died in August, 2005 -- almost 13 years since we last heard his deep, warm voice. There’s something about it that leaves you with a smile in your mind’s ear. Maybe it was his long-running TV show, “Jay Hammond’s Alaska,” that keeps his memory alive
But what about Bella Hammond’s Alaska? Last summer we had to a chance to explore the Alaska first lady’s world -- on a trip to Lake Clark, off the road system about 180 miles from Anchorage. We had to fly to Port Alsworth, then take a boat to reach the cabin Bella’s husband had built by hand.
When we visited, she was gracious and kind – offered us cookies, coffee and a great conversation, which we bring to you in this week’s episode of Frontiers, “Bella Hammond’s Alaska.”
Here are some of the highlights from the show, a genuine Alaskan love story, told with old family films, as well as footage and photos from archives all over the state -- set in the backdrop of an important time in our state’s history.
When Jay met Bella: She was only 17 when she caught his eye. They married two years later and raised two daughters, Heidi and Dana. The family eventually moved into a log house their father had built.
Life in the mansion: After a successful run for governor in 1974, the Hammonds left their home in the wilderness for life in the governor’s mansion. How Bella Hammond, who enjoyed the solitude of their Lake Clark cabin, made the transition.
A return to the cabin: Jay Hammond always promised that he would go from the mansion, back to his “fine” cabin. A look at the remarkable life the Hammonds led after their return to Lake Clark.
Memories of the Hammonds: Francine Taylor, founder of the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association, shares some thoughts about the impact of this unique first family.
“I was born in 1932. I’m an artifact,” she laughed and continued to tell us the story of how she and her husband met, fell in love and how they weathered the storms of politics in the governor’s mansion.
We have many people to thank for helping us bring you this program – first and foremost, Jay and Bella’s daughter, Heidi, who shared many family photos and films with us.
We’d also like to thank the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association, for access to its archives – which included footage from Jay Hammond’s Alaska, produced by RTR Television, as well as video from Sprocketheads, another longtime Alaskan production company.
Their footage of the Hammonds at Lake Clark holds special significance for many Alaskans --not just for its beauty, but because the homestead was a source of inspiration for many of Jay Hammond’s ideas that changed Alaska history, such as his Permanent Fund Dividend program.
We also had help from Alaska Public Media, the Alaska State Library and Archives and the UAA Consortium Library’s Special Collections. What an adventure it was to hunt for these historical treasures and share them with you.
And of course, we have Bella herself to thank. Just after we visited her last summer, she had a stroke. Her recovery required her to winter in Anchorage, where she met with us one more time, to look at family films and describe what was on them.
What an honor it is for Frontiers to bring you this week’s program.
Perry Green interview (2013)
Perry Green is interviewed by Mike Dunham and Bob Curtis-Johnson in Anchorage, Alaska on June 11, 2013, as part of the Rasmuson Foundation Early Anchorage Oral History Project. This is one of 10 project interviews.
Perry Green talks about his personal background, his parents, Ruth and David Green, his father coming to Alaska when he was seventeen years old, what Anchorage was like in the 1950s, 4th Avenue , the social life in Anchorage, managing the family fur business, working for the Alaska Railroad, his responsibilities in the family business, being frugal, Anchorage Fur Trading Company, picking up furs along the Alaska Highway, Don Sheldon, bush pilots, Jules Thibedeau, Al Wright, work ethic of trappers, having to show a passport to get in and out of the United States, travel between Alaska and Seattle, city politics, Elmer Rasmuson, delayed radio broadcasts, Ruben Gaines, Augie Hiebert, their live television broadcast show of their furs, the MacKay Building, statehood, Bob Atwood, Bill Egan, his successful poker playing career, different places he has lived in Anchorage, his military career, his experience during the Alaska earthquake, the Jewish community in Anchorage, Jewish fur traders, Zac Loussac, Larry Carr, the Gottsteins, early politicians working for the good of Alaska, early politics, Bob Bartlett, Ernest Gruening, business loans after the earthquake, growth in Anchorage after the earthquake, Jewish chaplains, how the pipeline changed things, lack of government controls in the past, Spenard Utilities, 4th Avenue before the earthquake, Wasilla and the future for Anchorage and Alaska.
This sequence contains excerpts from 2016-18-03, from the UAF Oral History Program, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives or the UAF Oral History Program at UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu
Mr Alaska: Bob Bartlett Goes to Washington
The story of the improbable politician from the Territory of Alaska who became the face of the 49th state in D.C. for two decades. From his roots as a small-town reporter and gold miner to his position as Alaska’s Territorial Delegate, he left a legacy matched by few; he helped create the very state he served. Spanning gold stampedes, territorial days and even two World Wars, Bob Bartlett’s story reflects the rapid changes that shaped the 49th state. For more information, please see: mralaska.org. ©KUAC 2009
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Laurel Bill on Alaska Story Time with Aunt Phil, Anchorage's first airstrip
Bush pilots, flying open-cockpit planes, needed a place to land, so the townspeople of Anchorage turned out in force in May 1923 to clear 16 acres of land between Ninth and Tenth avenues and C and L streets, which had served as a firebreak to keep fires from coming into Downtown Anchorage from the south. On this episode of Alaska Story Time with Aunt Phil, author/historian Laurel Downing Bill shares the storied past of that strip of land.
More than 90 years ago, Anchorage residents prepared to usher in a new form of transportation. Bush pilots, flying open-cockpit planes, needed a place to land, so the community dedicated an area “outside” of town as its first airstrip.
Townspeople turned out in force in May 1923 to clear 16 acres of land between Ninth and Tenth avenues and C and L streets, which had served as a firebreak to keep fires from coming into Downtown Anchorage from the south.
The May 27 issue of the Anchorage Daily Times reported the event:
“Men whose hands had not been soiled by anything heavier than a pen for many years, grappled the mattock or the axe and shook the kinks out of their flabby muscles. Ladies with rakes and other implements cleared away the small debris while others piled it upon the small mountain of stumps ready for the torch.”
The airstrip was put to use for the first time a year later, when 24-year-old barnstormer Noel Wien took off in his J-One standard open-cockpit biplane on July 6 and followed the railroad north.
Although the gutsy aviator encountered thick smoke from wildfires near Healy that hampered his visibility, he landed safely at Weeks Field in Fairbanks.
Anchorage’s first local airline made the new airfield home. Anchorage Air Transport Inc., formed by Art Shonbeck, Oscar Anderson, Gus Gelles and Ray Southworth in 1926, used the strip for several years with its chief pilot, Russ Merrill, making countless successful takeoffs and landings.
But some pilots, like well-known bush pilot Merle Sasseen, also had a few mishaps.
Sasseen, who had survived three crashes in as many months, two of which while landing on the “runway” at the out-of-town field, had to fill out a detailed federal report to describe his last accident. The final, crucial question on the form asked him: “General ability as a pilot?”
While most pilots lost no time responding to the ego-challenging question and filled in the blank with “Excellent,” Sasseen was weighed down with chagrin at his third aviation smashup in a row.
He studied the question.
“General ability as a pilot?” he asked.
Then, after scratching his head, he wrote: “I used to think I was pretty good, but lately I’ve begun to wonder.”
Bush pilots used what’s now called the Park Strip, or Delaney Park, as an aviation field for about seven years. It then became the town’s first golf course. But even after the completion of Merrill Field in the early 1930s, spring breakup occasionally forced pilots to use the more solid town strip.
The Park Strip has served the Anchorage community for many years as a venue for golfing, dog racing, memorial celebrations and also was the site for a massive bonfire when Congress voted that Alaska could become a state on June 30, 1958.
This segment aired on CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA Channel 11 Daybreak on May 30, 2016.
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Eva Malvich Wells Fargo Alaska Heritage Museum
Interview with Eva Malvich at the Wells Fargo Alaska Heritage Museum. Interviewers: Tom Bennett and Anna Mossolova. Funded by the Alaska Humanities Forum. Project PI: Medeia Csoba DeHass. Video editor: Josie Oliva.
Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-400 Spirit of Alaska Statehood [N705AS] landing in LAX
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Airline: Alaska Airlines
Aircraft: Boeing 737-490
Reg: N705AS
Flight #: AS708
Route: YVR-LAX
Runway: 24R
Date: 7/30/13
Time: 9:05AM
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Tooksook Bay Governance Call
Klondike Alaska: A Rail History
For most people, railroads in Alaska and the Yukon are synonymous with the Alaska Railroad and the White Pass and Yukon Railroad whose passenger cars provide tourists with vistas of awe-inspiring terrain. That same terrain provided enormous challenges for early settlers of both territories. Railroads were an integral part of overcoming those challenges. Dozens of other railroads also laid track in Alaska, the Yukon, and northwest British Columbia and provided the means to transport supplies to settlements and to transport the region’s raw materials to outside markets. Klondike Alaska charts the history of many of those railroads. ©KUAC 2005
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Alaska ( (listen); Aleut: Alax̂sxax̂; Inupiaq: Alaskaq; Russian: Аляска, translit. Alyaska) is a U.S. state in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east, its most extreme western part is Attu Island, and it has a maritime border with Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas—the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. It is the largest state in the United States by area and the
seventh largest subnational division in the world. In addition, it is the 3rd least populous and the most sparsely populated of the 50 United States; nevertheless, it is by far the most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel in North America: its population—estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015— is more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11, 1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
Laurel Bill on Alaska Story Time with Aunt Phil, Alaska's tallest flagpole
Alaska author/historian Laurel Downing Bill features the story of how a small spruce that peered skyward in a dense forest on Prince of Wales Island in the mid-1700s found its way to Anchorage when Alaska became America’s 49th state.
An article in the Anchorage Daily News on Sept. 10, 1959, reported that a man from Ketchikan claimed the huge pole, which measured 140 feet long, was selected because people in Ketchikan didn’t think the folks in Anchorage would know what to do with it.
Many Anchorage residents thought it was a gag, too. The arrival of the long log in the summer of 1959 became the brunt of many jokes. Some suggested their Southeast neighbors had sent Alaska’s largest city a huge headache.
Another article appeared years later that again speculated the pole was sent to Anchorage in jest. “The Pole That A Gag Built,” published in the Anchorage Daily Times in November 1970, said the Ketchikan Pulp Co. and Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce sent the giant spruce to Anchorage as a joke. The pole, 36 inches in diameter at its base and about 12 inches at its top, was selected because the “friendly Southeastern pranksters” thought it might cause a problem for the enthusiastic statehood supporters in Anchorage.
But George H. Byer, who had been chairman of the Anchorage Parks and Recreation Commission at the time of the flagpole donation and later became mayor, wrote to the newspaper to set the record straight. The “gag” actually originated in Anchorage, he said in his letter dated Dec. 4, 1970 for one All-American City to another to do a real patriotic deed. He said it would be great to have the tallest flagpole in the largest state in the biggest city to fly the newest 49th state flag.
It took 20 loggers to fall, trim, cut and bark the tree. They then had to bulldoze the log 40 miles to the loading wharf and then barge it 1,000 miles through the Gulf of Alaska and its treacherous storm-infested seas to the Port of Anchorage.
Once the giant log reached Anchorage, it was stored at the Delaney Park Strip until the city workers could dig a 15-foot hole in which to place the pole on the City Hall lawn.
Anchoragites attended a colorful ceremony on the city hall lawn to dedicate the flagpole on Labor Day, Sept. 8.
Within a year of the dedication ceremony, construction began on a crown to top the tallest natural flagpole in the new state – a stainless steel globe with continents made of copper and the equator from brass was built by sheet metal workers. A crane hoisted the globe to the top of the pole on May 18, 1961.
Workers trimmed the deteriorating historic pole to 90 feet in 1987 and moved it from city hall to the Delaney Park Strip to become the Veterans Memorial flagpole. Then it came down for good in 1999 when a 110-foot replacement pole was erected to “continue the tradition established in 1959 of displaying the flags of this great nation and the state in grandest honor.”
A huge windstorm toppled that pole in September 2012. Onlookers later said they saw dry rot at its base. When the pole crashed to the ground, the beautiful globe that crowned its top split like a melon.
And that’s when a battered Maxwell House coffee canister tumbled out. When pried open, its contents yielded a yellowed copy of the Anchorage Daily News from May 6, 1961, with headlines about Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut in space, and a story of the breakup on the Tanana River. The can also included a list of names, a 1960 penny and a Union 76 gas card.
This episode of Alaska Story Time with Aunt Phil aired on CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA Channel 11 Daybreak on June 13, 2016.
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Alaska ( ( listen); Aleut: Alax̂sxax̂; Inupiaq: Alaskaq; Russian: Аляска, translit. Alyaska) is a U.S. state in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east, its most extreme western part is Attu Island, and it has a maritime border with Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas—the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. It is the largest state in the United States by area and the
seventh largest subnational division in the world. In addition, it is the 3rd least populous and the most sparsely populated of the 50 United States; nevertheless, it is by far the most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel in North America: its population—estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015— is more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11, 1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
San Francisco | Wikipedia audio article
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San Francisco (SF; ; Spanish for 'Saint Francis'; Spanish: [ˈsãɱ fɾãnˈsisko]), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. San Francisco is the 13th most populous city in the United States, and the 4th most populous in California, with 884,363 residents as of 2017. It covers an area of about 46.89 square miles (121.4 km2), mostly at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, making it the second most densely populated large US city, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. San Francisco is also part of the fifth most populous primary statistical area in the United States, the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area (8.8 million residents).
As of 2017, it was the 7th highest-income county in the United States, with a per capita personal income of $119,868. The San Francisco CSA was the country's 3rd largest urban economy as of 2017, with a GDP of $878 billion. Of the 574 primary statistical areas in the US, the San Francisco CSA had the highest GDP per capita in 2017, at $99,347 per capita. San Francisco was ranked 14th in the world and third in the United States on the Global Financial Centres Index as of September 2018.San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, all named for St. Francis of Assisi. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. San Francisco's status as the West Coast's largest city peaked between 1870 and 1900, when around 25% of California's population resided in the city. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the hippie counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines.
A popular tourist destination, San Francisco is known for its cool summers, fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of architecture, and landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, Fisherman's Wharf, and its Chinatown district. San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Gap Inc., Fitbit, Salesforce.com, Dropbox, Reddit, Square, Inc., Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, Craigslist, and Weather Underground. It is home to a number of educational and cultural institutions, such as the University of San Francisco (USF), University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco State University (SFSU), the De Young Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the California Academy of Sciences.
As of 2018, San Francisco is the highest rated American city on world liveability rankings.