First Avenue Fairbanks: Saving Our Places

This 1999 - 2000 program examines some of the historical structures along First Avenue in Fairbanks, Alaska. Through interviews, photos and moving images, the history of the street and the town as a whole are examined. Those interviewed include Richard Frank, Janet Matheson, Joanna Philips, Charles Bettisworth, Scott Fisher, Marion Hutchison Acord, and Peter Bowers. This program was a project of the Tanana-Yukon Historical Society, and was supported in part by the Alaska Humanities Forum, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Alaska Association for Historic Preservation, and Moving Images. Further credits include: Research and Writing by Renee Blahuta and Associates; script by Maureen Aull and Susan McInnis; Camera and Graphics by Stuart Aull; Editing by Maureen Aull; Interviews by Roger McPherson; Narration by Susan McInnis; Archival Materials Courtesy of University of Alaska Fairbanks, Candy Waugaman, Frederick Currier Collection, Tanana-Yukon Historical Society, and USGS; and Produced by Maureen and Stuart Aull of Moving Images, Fairbanks. (Color/Sound/Beta SP videotape).
This sequence is AAF-13985 from the Tanana-Yukon Historical Society/Renee Blahuta collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Alaska Film Archives also holds the Stuart and Maureen Aull Moving Images collection.
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