This series was designed to invite instructors to explore the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act with Students. The Teachers Guide accompanies six video episodes that vary in length from 14-25 minutes.
Relief shown pictorially. Shows Sea Otter Sound, Prince of Wales Island. "Pl. XXVII." "Vüe de l'entrée de la Loutre. Elle git Par les 55 degres 45 Minutes de Latitude Nord, et les 226 degres 30 Minutes de Longitude Est de Greenwich." From...
Caption: Miners from Flat, Alaska, set up a tripod for setting the Winnie Mae upright so that the airplane can be repaired. The Winnie Mae hit a patch of mining tailings, during Wiley Post's solo round the world flight, and nosed over. The Winnie...
Title taken from caption. "11517 -- [18] Sledding over the ice of an Alaskan river on long journeys is an undertaking both tedious and perilous. Storms and biting frosts entail great discomfort as well as threaten life. During pleasant...
Title taken from verso. View looking west down Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska, minutes after March 27, 1964 earthquake, with men walking on lowered street in foreground and line of people standing in background. Also from verso: "Tall building...
Remainder of title: and recommending an appropriation for the payment for the territory ceded to the United States, and legislation for the occupation and government of the same. At head of title: 40th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex.Doc....
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 2 minutes and 5 seconds, MPG-1 format. Polar-orbiting satellites can orbit the Earth in 90 minutes, enabling them take daily photos of nearly everywhere on...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from caption: "Bergers No. 1 Racing Team Winner Second Annual All Alaska Sweepstakes April 1st 1909 Distance 408 Miles Time 82 hours 2 minutes 41 sec. A. A. Allen Driver. Copyright A. L. Bell."
04 First jobs in Alaska (5:04 min.) (04 of 09) Lockheed Vega took her to Fairbanks. Bush flying was what she wanted, but she couldn't get hired in Fairbanks. Herb Hagler at Fairbanks Air Service wouldn't give her a job as a pilot, but he told...
(4:20 min.) (09 of 09) 9. After the convention. Les played a very valuable role in bringing people together. There was great camaraderie among the delegates. Les went home and showed his father a copy of the constitution. His father read...
Title taken from verso. Caption on photograph: To Bob & Vide Bartlett, My friends, Noel Wien. Photograph of a Fokker FIII 6 place cabin monoplane, a biplane is in the distance. Verso: June 1925, minutes before taking off on first...
Title taken from caption. " The Setting and Rising Sun at Kotzubue, Alaska, June 21, 22. Seven exposures at intervals of 15 minutes. Lomen Bros, Nome. # 715 ". Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo size 3 x 6 .
Title taken from caption. " Johnson and Allen and Darling entries, fifth All Alaskan sweepstakes, Siberian vs. American dogs, Nome Alaska 1912 . Lomen Bros, Nome # 863 ".
Cataloguer's note: John Johnson, also known as "The Iron Man"...