62 second, color and black and white, silent film clip. Sequence shows people at the crash site of a Star Airlines Bellanca aircraft. The passengers and crew build a fire and at the end of the clip dog teams arrive.
57 second, color and B&W/silent film clip. Shows the male students from Eklutna Boarding School working in the field, clearing the land and hauling lumber.
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.
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.