Clara Hickman Rust Papers 1900-1973.

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Clara Hickman Rust Papers 1900-1973.

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The Clara Hickman Rust Papers consist of newspaper clippings and publications on a wide variety of Alaskan subjects, a personal file centered around Clara's life and involvement in community affairs, scrapbooks with handwritten notations by Clara, and photographs.

18 ms. boxes 6.2 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7293397

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Rust, Clara, 1890-1978

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Clara Hickman Rust was a Fairbanks historian and writer who came to Fairbanks in 1907 to join her father, Zach Hickman, a newspaperman who had come over the Chilkoot Pass to Dawson in 1898 and subsequently founded two newspapers: the Klondike Nugget and the Fairbanks Miner. In 1910 she married Jesse W. Rust in Fairbanks, where she was to live a long and active life, recognized for her participation in local and state affairs. She was a charter member of Pioneer Women of Alaska, served two terms ...