Photo Gallery: UAF History

The annual lighting of the bonfire is a tradition that dates back to 1923 on the UAF campus. As with today's Starvation Gulch, which is capped off by a bonfire lighting, the event heralded the beginning of a new academic year and welcomed new students to campus by passing on the "torch of knowledge."

Credit: Charles E. Bunnell Collection, Rasmuson Library
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