The photographs primarily relate to Valdez and the Copper River country during the period 1899-1905. Included are photographs of towns, buildings, camps, social events, mining, packing supplies and equipment, people, and scenery.
(3:55 min.) (03 of 24) 03 Worked for Alaska Steamship Co. during WWII Laid cable for Alaska Communication System [ACS]. Worked on a troop transport (possibly the Chinook Victory). Delivered soldiers to and from Truck Island; the ship...
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Barging on the river
barging; river history; summer -- Galena; hauling 140 ton loads; river trips; whole life on river; Holy Cross; freight; Nenana; Yukon; million gallon barge; Nenana; Fairbanks; Core of Engineers; Chena...
15 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection (Alaska Review #55, 1984)". Film shows men unloading freight from a Twin Otter.
31 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection (Alaska Review #55, 1984)". Film shows a medevac patient being loaded off of a Cessna 207 and into an ambulance in Barrow.
31 second, color/silent film clip. Title from title frame: "Liquid sunshine gauge at Ketchikan". Shows the "tallest barometer in the world", located in Ketchikan, Alaska. The barometer/billboard reads at the top: "Busted in 1949 202:55 inches"....
55 second film clip, black & white/silent, of Palmer, Alaska showing street scenes, a railroad track, and a horse drawn wagon. Mountains form the background.
55 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection (Alaska Review #8, 1976)". Film shows Cessna 185 taking off from Talkeetna and flying around Mt. McKinley/Denali.
55 second film clip, color/sound. From title frame: "KTVF Collection, 11/04/74". Film shows street interviews about the 1974 election campaign, in which pedestrians show their dissaproval with the candidates' mudslinging.
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.
55 second, color/silent film clip of an ivory carver cutting, shaping, carving and polishing a piece of walrus ivory. Among the tools used are: saws, chisels, files, and a bow drill that he supports against his chin. The result is two small ivory...
55 second, color/silent film clip. Clip shows summer scenes in Anaktuvuk Pass, including children with dogs and puppies, tents, and women with children. In several shots, it appears that there is a sled in the foreground.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
A group of people assembled at the dock in the rain; perhaps taken from the deck of a vessel. Signs in image: Alaska Steamship Company; Ingersoll Hotel; Marine Hotel; Rotary International; Pioneer Airways agency, Charter Flights,...