Alaska periscope, ca. 1948.

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Alaska periscope, ca. 1948.

Manuscript includes reminiscences about living in Alaska from 1917-1948 and an article about Margaret Keenan Harrais from The Alaska Journal, v. 5, no 3, Summer 1975.

265 leaves : typescript.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7444634

Alaska State Library

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Harrais, Margaret Keenan, 1872-1964.

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Margaret Keenan was born in Batesville, Ohio, in 1872. She came to Alaska in 1914 to assume a post as principal of the Skagway schools, a post she held until 1916. She then accepted the post of superintendent of schools in Fairbanks, which she held until 1918. In 1920, Keenan married Martin Harrais, a miner. In 1924, she joined her husband in McCarthy, Alaska, where she worked as a teacher. After the death of her husband, she became U.S. Commissioner and ex-officio probate judge in Valdez, Alask...

Alaska Railroad Corporation

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