(Audio, 3 min 31 sec) Stanton Patty is interviewed by William Schneider in Vancouver, Washington, on April 30, 2012. The interview includes memories of growing up in Fairbanks between World War I and World War II, employment in mining industry,...
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.
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...
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...
Photograph of a gold dredge that might be the Canadian-2, located near Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada. Impressed on the photograph is the message "shoot peters ammunition."
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 hand-written on slide. This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk on June 4, 1961 and depicts a gold dredge operation at Ester (misspelled in the title as "Esther"), Alaska. The photo shows a ditch and spoil banks in the foreground and...