Fairbanks
Fairbanks names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Fairbanks DOUGLAS, an American actor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DOUGLAS, an American actor, born in Denver, Colo., in 1883. He was educated at the Jarvis Military Academy in Denver, and at the Colorado School of Mines. He made his first appearance on the stage in New York in 1901 and afterward appeared as a star in several successful plays. His chief success, however, was won as a movingpicture actor, in which he attained great prominence, both in the United States and other countries. FAIRBURY a city, of Nebraska, the county-seat of Jefferson co. It is on the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific, the Burlington, and the St. Joseph and Grand Island railroads, and on the Little Blue river. It has important manufactures and is the center of an important fruitgrowing region. There are a library, postoffice, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 5,294; (1920) 5,454.
Fairbanks ARTHUR, an American art director
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARTHUR, an American art director, born in Hanover, N. H., in 1864. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1886 and attended the Yale Divinity School and the Union Theological Seminary. He also studied in Germany. He was on the faculty of Dartmouth College and Yale and Cornell Universities until 1900, when he became professor of Greek literature and archæology at the University of Iowa. In 1906, he was appointed professor of Greek and Greek archæology in the University of Michigan. He was in the following year appointed director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He was a member of many classical and learned societies. He wrote "Introduction to Sociology" (1896); "The Mythology of Greece and Rome" (1907); "Handbook of Greek Religion" (1910); "Greek Gods and Heroes" (1915).
Fairbanks a city of Alaska on the Tanana river
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Alaska on the Tanana river. It is the chief city of the territory and is the site of the Fourth Judicial District and of government activities in the interior of Alaska. It is the center of the important Fairbanks gold-mining district. It is a wellbuilt city and has schools, churches, hospitals, and wireless and telephone connection with the outer world. It is the shipping point for miners' supplies. It has all the characteristics of an important city. The principal section of the new Alaskan railroad is the one from Chitina to Fairbanks, 313 miles. See ALASKA.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921 that Douglas Fairbanks's chief success was as a "moving-picture actor," his greatest swashbucklers were still ahead of him — "Robin Hood" (1922) and "The Thief of Bagdad" (1924) — as was his term as the first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927; he had already co-founded United Artists in 1919 and married Mary Pickford in 1920, and he died in 1939, his silent stardom largely undone by sound. Collier's calls Fairbanks, Alaska "the chief city of the territory": Anchorage overtook it decades ago, and today Fairbanks is Alaska's second city with roughly 30,000 residents, its economy resting on Fort Wainwright and Eielson air base, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the trans-Alaska oil pipeline of the 1970s rather than on placer gold. The "new Alaskan railroad" then under construction was finished in 1923, when President Harding drove a golden spike at Nenana. Arthur Fairbanks's note stands as written; he served out his years at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and is now remembered chiefly for his Loeb Library translations of Philostratus and Callistratus.
Written for this edition, 2026.