The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
61 second film clip, black & white silent Clip shows gold miners panning, using rocker boxes and sluice boxes. Narration describes small-scale gold mining.
The Alaska History Nugget series was created in 2004-2005 as a cooperative...
48 second, color/silent, film clip of Leonhard and Constance Seppala. They are sitting on the porch in front of a house and playing with some puppies. This was possibly filmed in Chatanika.
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
45-second, B&W/silent film clip. Slim Williams removes porcupine quills from "Blizzard", his Siberian Husky. Williams removes quills from Blizzard's muzzle by hand and with pliers, then pets the reclining animal.
Title taken from caption; engraving faces page 760. "A Winter Habitation in Kamtschatka". A view of family life; the interior of a large room with exposed wooden beams and narrow, crooked trees used as pillars. Children are snuggled...
Title taken from caption. "9358 -- (36) We frequently see published statements to the effect that the aborigines are rapidly disappearing, but the scene here depicted contradicts such an assertion. The eleven youthful Esquimaux who make up the...
Title taken from caption. "11560 -- (38) The Klondike district, as well as other camps in the interior of Alaska, has a method of placer mining different from that which prevails in other sections of the United States. The ground, which is...