Passengers are assisted into a U.S. Navy launch during rescue operations for the S.S. Yukon near Seward, Alaska. From verso: "Glacier Photo Service of Seward, Alaska. G. McCreary. 3 copies." 1946. Photographer: G. McCreary. Original size of...
6 min, 22 sec film clip, color/silent. Footage includes: men operating a hydraulic "giant", men drilling thaw points, interior and exterior operations of a gold dredge, excavation by bulldozer and steam shovel, men sluicing gold and scooping...
3 min, 57 sec film clip, black & white/silent. A man takes a shovelful of dirt from several dredge buckets and runs it through a rocker box, then pans the dust for gold. According to the catalog record for the film containing this...
54 second, color/silent, film clip. Clip shows men loading wood onto the sternwheeler from the shore, feeding the boiler, and the operations of the sternwheel.
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TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AND THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD QUOTE THE LAY OF FINAL VICTORY HAS AT LAST ARRIVED X JAPAN HAS SURRENDERED X HER FLEET WHICH ONCE...
Coast Guard OnScene Coordinator speaks to the public and panel, while ADEC
Commissioner and peer watches, during an oil spill operations meeting - Anchorage.
Operations meeting in Anchorage is attended by the public and oil spill agencies, both
listen to the panel members that represent individual industries, oil spill science, and state
environmentalists - Anchorage.
ADEC Commissioner Dennis Kelso listens to presentations given by different state
agencies and Exxon at the oil spill operations meeting located at Exxon headquarters -
Valdez.
13 sec film clip, color/silent. Clip shows a man driving thaw points and, briefly, a gold dredge. From the video "Alluring Alaska", used for lectures by the Machetanzes when they travelled outside of Alaska.
2 min, 10 sec film clip, color/silent. Gold dust is poured from a bag into a gold pan. There are shots of a smelting furnace, men operating the furnace, a hot gold ingot, molten gold being poured into a mold, and a cooled ingot being shaped...
52 second, black & white/silent, film clip of people and airplanes at Merrill Field.
Greg Herrick provided the following information about the biplane with people standing in front (tail number NV 977Y) Acquired by Harold Gillam for use...
64 second, black & white/silent, film clip of an aerial tramway. Ore is loaded into a mining cart from a hopper, then into the machines that crush and separate the rock from the ore.
Title taken from verso. Billy Blackjack Johnson inspecting crab and processing operation on board seafood processing ship "Alindeska Sea" at Cold Bay, Alaska. Also from verso: "This year boat held 4 million pounds of frozen crab when it left...
Title taken from verso. Distant view of buildings with tractor plowing snow and communications tower in background. From caption: "(G43A1-3052J-NAB)(3-1-43)(SECRET)."