W. F. Thompson family collection, ca. 1920-1984.

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W. F. Thompson family collection, ca. 1920-1984.

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The W. F. Thompson Family Collection consists of a small number of family photographs and photocopies of newspaper articles about the history of the "Fairbanks Daily News-Miner," its editor W. F. Thompson, Thompson's sister-in-law Belinda Mulrooney Carbonneau, and a public library donated to the town of Ithaca, Michigan, by the Thompson family in 1930. The photographs include a portrait of W. F. Thompson, a photograph of a painted portrait of Beulah Thompson, two photographs of Richard Thompson in military uniform during World War II, and a badly damaged photograph of the unfinished Tanana River bridge taken in January 1923.

0.25 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Mulrooney, Belinda, 1872-1967

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Thompson, W. Furness

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Thorgaard, Marian Thompson.

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William Fentress "Wrong Font" Thompson (1863-1926), born and raised in Michigan, worked for newspapers all over the western United States in the 1880s and 1890s. In 1898 he helped establish the Dawson Daily News in Dawson, Yukon, and later published his own Dawson newspaper, the Yukon Sun. He entered the newspaper business in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1906, and in 1909 became editor and publisher of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, a position that he held until his death in 1926. He married Helen (Ne...