Bremmeyer Collection
Eighty-two year old Helen Bremmeyer brought five photos
to the Circle District Museum in 1996.
She worked one summer (1939) at Miller House as a cook and extra hand for
Graziella Miller.
She then moved on to raise a family. Her husband was Lyle Bremmeyer. He worked
on the Berry dredge.
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Left: Helen Bremmeyer, Right Olive Banks in front of Central House in 1939.
Olive later married Casper Ellingen.
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Miller House in 1939.
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Miller House in 1939.
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Pipeline to provide hydraulic pressure for stripping ground to be mined by
the Berry dredge.
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Twelvemile Roadhouse near Reed Creek below Twelvemile summit in 1939. Sign
on back of panel truck reads "Circle Fairbanks Transportation Co., Geo
Gilbertson. See
85-P-01-22 in the Doane collection for another view of the panel truck.