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Dr. Arthur Schaible talks at a meeting of the Tanana Yukon Historical Society in Fairbanks, Alaska on March 25th, 1971. [sound recording]
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Dr. Arthur Schaible talks at a meeting of the Tanana Yukon Historical Society in Fairbanks, Alaska on March 25th, 1971. [sound recording]
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[sound recording]
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Physical Description:
1 sound tape reel (70 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in., 1/2 in. tape.
General Note:
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Event Note:
Recorded on March 25th, 1971 in Fairbanks, AK.
Abstract:
Dr. Arthur Schaible talks to the Tanana Yukon Historical Society about being born in Walvis Bay, a small fishing village in Namibia, Africa that is north of Cape Town, South Africa, the background of his parents, going to school in a donkey cart, going to a German school, moving to Michigan, going to school at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois, going on to Northwestern Medical School in Chicago, interning at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, working at Walter Reed Hospital as a reserve in the United States Army, meeting Robert Feckner who was head of the Civilian Conservation Corps, demand for doctors in Alaska, moving to Alaska and being in charge of a hospital in Tanana, visiting patients in remote villages, his interest in surgery, using cadavers to review procedures, using anesthesia in the villages, hospital was a remnant of Fort Gibbon, the possiblity of the Alaska Railroad having its terminus in Tanana, traveling the river on the steamboat Nenana, using a dog team to travel in the winter, getting the first automobile in Tanana, ordering from Sears Roebuck and Co., and then he finishes by taking questions from the audience.