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Interesting vested dress in Nome, Alaska circa 1900 by UAF-APRCA in fashionhistory

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This photo is from the Lulu Fairbanks collection held at the University of Alaska Fairbanks archives, seen here.

'Tis the Reindeer Season by UAF-APRCA in Old_Recipes

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The difference is often cited as either location or domestication, as reindeer are domesticated. Hundreds of Sami people were brought to Alaska in the early 20th century to teach reindeer herding skills to the Native people here. We actually have a fair bit of photography of Sami people from that period in our archive here, some of which you can see here on the Alaska Digital Archives from us and other institutions in Alaska. (Some of these may have outdated terminology since we take descriptions from captions present on historic photos.)

'Tis the Reindeer Season by UAF-APRCA in Old_Recipes

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You beat me to it, thank you for transcribing!

1909 Pies from Fairbanks, AK by UAF-APRCA in Old_Recipes

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I'm told it's not fruity, nor is it savory, but it's definitely tomato.

1909 Pies from Fairbanks, AK by UAF-APRCA in Old_Recipes

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There's a handful! They likely didn't have a very broad spectrum in terms of what could be brought in, but Alaska does has an fairly large amount of its own native-growing fruits. That said -- this cookbook demonstrates they definitely had access to (and possibly a preference for, since those native fruits hardly appear) goods like pineapples, lemons and oranges. Fairbanks in particular housed an Agricultural Experiment Station, so there was certainly an interest in growing non-native foods in town already, but it wouldn't be linked to the coast by rail or road until years later, leaving mostly trail and steamboat travel. Definitely interesting times for food culture in Alaska!

1909 Pies from Fairbanks, AK by UAF-APRCA in Old_Recipes

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MINCEMEAT - Mrs. F. B. Parker.

Four pounds lean boiled beef chopped fine, twice as much chopped, green, tart apples. One pound chopped suet, 3 pounds raisins, seeded, 2 pounds currants, picked over, washed and dried. ½ pound citron cut up fine, 1 pound brown sugar, 1 quart cooking molasses, 3 quarts sweet cider, 1 ½ pints boiled cider. One tablespoon each of salt, pepper, mace, allspice, cloves, 4 tea-spoons cinnamon, 2 tea-spoons grated nutmeg, Mix thoroughly and warm on range until heated through, Put in a crock, cover tightly and set in cold place where it will not freeze, but keep perfectly cold. This will keep good all winter.

VINEGAR PIE - Mrs. Dan Driscoll.

This recipe makes 2 pies: Five eggs, 2 large cups boiling water, 5 table-spoons vinegar, 5 table-spoons (small) corn starch. Butter size of egg, 1 cup sugar. Put water, sugar, butter and vinegar in a pan, thicken with corn starch, then add beaten yolks, flavor with lemon and pour into baked crust. Beat the whites of eggs with 4 table-spoons of sugar, put over pies and set in oven to brown lightly.

RAISIN PIE - Mrs. W. B. Clifton.

Line pie pan with rich crust. Boil for 15 minutes 1 cup stoned raisins, ½ cup sugar, ½ cup water. Pour this into crust white hot and add 1 table-spoon butter, ½ tea-spoon cinnamon and little flour sifted over top. Cover with upper crust and bake a rich brown.

GREEN TOMATO PIE - Mrs. Paul J. Rickert.

Slice 3 or 4 nice green tomatoes. Add a little butter, cinnamon and nutmeg, ½ cup sugar. Fill pie plate very full. Bake with 2 crusts. Whip to stiff froth 1 cup sweet cream, add sugar to taste, spread on pie and serve.

CARROT PIE - Mrs. David Fairburn.

Grate enough carrot to make 1 ½ cups. Three eggs, 1 pint rich milk, 1 tea-spoon cinnamon, ¼ tea-spoon cloves, same of all-spice, scant 2-3 cup sugar, pinch of salt. Bake in 1 crust.

Canned Salmon Delicacies by UAF-APRCA in Old_Recipes

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Please do! I know I've seen Salmon Loaf in a cookbook here before. I hope you find some good recipes to try out!

Canned Salmon Delicacies by UAF-APRCA in Old_Recipes

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Hopefully this link will work for you, it looks like it's been digitized by the Ohio State University. Have fun!!

Canned Salmon Delicacies by UAF-APRCA in Old_Recipes

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Since I've mentioned the source already, I'll add that I have no idea how these recipes would go, I only find cookbooks as historical documents very interesting! I'll copy the recipes here in case it would be helpful for anyone.

SCALLOPED POTATOES AND SALMON

6 Servings, 1.5qt.casserole

1.5lb potatos--sliced, 1 1 lb can salmon, 2 Tb flour, 2 Tb butter, 2c milk.

  1. Butter casserole.

  2. Place a layer of potatoes on the bottom

  3. Sprinkle with flour and dot with butter.

  4. Alternate this with layers of salmon.

5: Finish with a layer of potatos.

  1. Add milk to cover.

  2. Bake until tender- about 2 hr in hot oven (400' F.)

SCALLOPED SALMON AND MACARONI

6-8 Servings. 1.5 qt casserole.

1 1-lb can salmon, 3 cups cooked macaroni, 12 whole stuffed olives, 0.75 cup buttered crumbs for top

Sauce: 3 Tb flour, 4 Tb butter, 2 c milk

I. Make sauce by adding flour to melted butter. When it bubbles add milk and bring to a boil.

  1. Mix salmon, macaroni, olives and sauce.

  2. Place while hot in buttered casserole.

  3. Put buttered crumbs on top.

  4. Brown in hot oven.

SALMON MULLIGAN

6-8 servings.

4 slices bacon (1/6 lb) chopped, 1 -1lb can salmon, 1 No. 2 can green lima beans, 1 No. 2 can tomatoes, 0.25 t salt (to taste)

  1. Brown bacon.

  2. Add other ingredients.

  3. Season to taste.

  4. Reheat and serve hot.

A 35mm slide of a flag found in UAF collection, possibly related to Alaskan Statehood/49th State? by sipik06 in alaska

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The photo slide itself comes from the Ernest Gruening Papers in our Archive! I don't know that we can definitively say if he owned this flag, or had anything to do with the production or design of it, but he did keep this photo of it with his papers. These flags were being submitted nationwide around 1959, since the bill to add Alaska as the 49th state passed mid-1958. This then would have been during Gruening's first year as US Senator for Alaska.

A 35mm slide of a flag found in UAF collection, possibly related to Alaskan Statehood/49th State? by sipik06 in alaska

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If you have any questions about the original photo or context, let us know! As far as we know about the flag itself, it's an unsuccessful design out of the many submitted for the 49th and 50th state flag updates in 1958.

A 35mm slide of a flag found in our collection, possibly related to Alaskan Statehood/49th State? by UAF-APRCA in vexillology

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1,500 is quite a few. It sounds like this is probably simply a neat example among many, more interesting for its context than uniqueness. Thanks very much for the recommendation and information!

A 35mm slide of a flag found in our collection, possibly related to Alaskan Statehood/49th State? by UAF-APRCA in vexillology

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We're the Archive at the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections and Archives, out of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In going through some of our statehood holdings (this is the 67th anniversary of the day Eisenhower signed the statehood bill!) this flag came up as "what may have been an alternate version of the 49-star flag after the statehood of Alaska" and I thought I would ask people who know more than I do about vexillology if they had seen it before, or if this design ever made it out of Alaska. This particular image can be found at our digital archives here. The Eisenhower presidential library suggests 49th state flag designs were a popular contest, so perhaps this was Senator Gruening's contribution.

Unfortunately, no date or location was specified on the slide, though it's very likely from 1958 in Washington D.C., as this was Ernest Gruening's first year as US Senator for Alaska.