50 second, color with audio track, film clip. The clip shows the use of plastic foam planks in road construction in Alaska. The clip is taken from the movie "Rendezvous with Destiny".
73 second, color/silent film clip of commercial fishing. Scenes include halibut being loaded onto a processor, a crab pot being emptied of crab, nets of shrimp, and clamming.
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,...
Title taken from caption. "9299 -- (39) Here we see the miners digging loose the bank and shoveling the dirt into the stream. Sometimes blasting is used to loosen the bank. The stream carries the soil with the gold which is in it to a sluice...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: A close-up shot of miners at work. A miner seen here is pouring water in the sluice box; a basic method used to separate (by washing out) dirt from gold. As noted on the photograph, this image is...
Cataloguer's title. A close up view of an undergroud mine. Various twisted hose and pipes are seen here protruding from the walls. The photographer supplies no information but this probably shows the use of steam points to thaw the frozen muck so...
Title by the Cataloguer. A group of four -- two women seated on a ladder are posing with two men. The ship's deck as well as large pipes can be seen in the background.
Title taken from caption. "Underground Mining in the Tanana Country." Cataloguer's note: The men in this underground mine seemed to be posing for the camera. Notice the man on the far left -- his facial features have been enhanced by ink,...
Title taken from caption. "N.A.T & T. Co. Miller Ck." Photographer's number 186. Photo by Johnson, Dawson YT (Yukon Territory). Indexer's note: Johnson took part in the Klondike Gold Rush. It is possible that this mining site is a claim of...
Title from cataloguer; photograph caption is not totally legible, although in part it appears to read 'Chatanika.' This is yet another photograph of a working gold claim.