(2:39 min.) (06 of 12) Types of development in Alaska after Statehood and the Resource Article development -- resources; 33 -- strategic minerals; undeveloped minerals -- Alaska; oil on Arctic Coast; 1920 -- husband forced down; Prudhoe Bay --...
(3:33 min.) (13 of 24) 13 Hiring and the unions
Unions started up in earnest in 1935 or 1936. Sometimes you had to work around the union to get who you wanted for your crew. The stewards' crew didn't have much time when they were in port,...
(6:33 min.) (05 of 12) Building bases and prep for Attu 30,000 men working total--civilian contractors did lots of work--DeLong--General Tally--Cold Bay task force to retake Attu--General Buckner--Alaska scouts--12,000 men in first two...
(9:33 Min.) (02 of 09)
Barging
landmarks -- sandbars; night navigation; freight -- food, machinery, lumber; 120 tons a trip; short season; steamboats; Peterson, Don; changes in handing freights; forklift; building of the barge; barge history; army;...
1 v. (47 p.), handwritten, in Russian script. Tells the story of Bishop Innocent from 1827 when as Joann Veniaminov he came as a new missionary to Unalaska through 1842, when he returned to Alaska as a Bishop. Further volumes not found....
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
33 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Wagner Collection". Film shows a ferry carrying a truck across the Tanana River at Delta.
33 second film clip, color/silent. Film show the forward operating base on Adak during the Aleutian Camapign of WWII, consisting of tents erected on a grassy field.