Lulu M. Fairbanks collection, 1886-1968.

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Lulu M. Fairbanks collection, 1886-1968.

The Lulu M. Fairbanks Collection consists of clippings, correspondence, research files, scrapbooks, postcards, and photographs. While much of the correspondence relates to the business affairs of the Alaska Weekly, a Seattle newspaper, the collection as a whole reflects Fairbanks's long-time interest in Alaska and her work as an Alaska Weekly reporter and editor.

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Fairbanks, Lulu M., 1888-1968

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Lulu M. Fairbanks (1888-1968) worked as a reporter and then editor for the Alaska Weekly of Seattle, Washington, from 1922 until the newspaper folded in 1956. Though she never lived in Alaska, she was active in the International Sourdough Reunion, Alaska Friends, and the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers and its auxiliary Ladies of the Golden North. She was the niece of former U.S. vice-president Charles W. Fairbanks, for whom Fairbanks, Alaska, was named. From the description of Lulu M. Fairban...