80 second, black & white/silent film clip. Clip shows a float plane arriving at the shore of Harding Lake. Sigmund Levanevsky and several others climb out of the plane, take a brief walk on the shore, greet the crowd, and then climb back into...
51 second, black and white, silent film clip of the ferry M/V Kalakala (meaning "Flying Bird" in Chinook). Originally launched as the Peralta on October 14, 1926, in San Francisco, she burned to the waterline on May 6, 1933. The intact hull was...
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,...
23 second, color/silent film clip of Alaskan wildflowers. Included are [tentatively] fireweed, prickly or Nootka roses, and a variety of poppy, buttercup or cinquefoil.
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.
39 second, black & white/silent film clip. Clip shows the power generator at the Nabesna Gold Mine. It also shows the pouring of molten gold into cupcake molds.
40 second, color/silent film clip. Clip shows a system, made mostly of logs, for getting the contents of mine carts down to a road via a chute and hopper. The system appears to be under construction.
91 second, black & white/silent, film clip of traveling along the Richardson Highway. Included are scenes of a stagecoach, an unidentified community, an airplane, a river, mountains and a glacier. Roadhouses or other buildings bear large signs with...
55 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a Pacific Airways single engine Ford airplane on skis preparing for take off, taxiing down the field, and then taking off from Weeks Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.
41 second, color/silent film clip. From title frame: "Dickson Collection". Film shows men working with various airplanes, including a Mirow Air Service Gullwing Stinson at Nome. All aircraft N-Numbers are too faint to read.
32 second, color/silent film clip. From title frame: "Dickson Collection". Film shows people in boats after a spring flood. The water level is halfway up the sides of their cabins. A float plane is parked next to them.
16 second, black & white/silent film clip of a horse drawn water wagon and the Mirow Air Service tracked passenger taxi. The water wagon is on a sledge.