One minute, 42 second, black & white/silent, film clip of scenes aboard a steamship. Also seen are fog, ocean, a light house, passengers and crew, people playing shuffleboard, and another ship filmed through a port hole.
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...
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...
64 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a University of Alaska graduation procession. People in academic gowns march out of a campus building, around the corner and into another building. The dignitaries include Ernest Gruening and Charles...
60 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a ferry crossing the Tanana River, loading a Thrifty Market [of Fairbanks] truck, and travelling back across the Tanana. There is a nice view of a log building at Rika's Roadhouse.
58 second, black & white/silent, film clip of trees being turned into firewood. Two men chop and saw down trees; the logs are cut to wood-stove size with a saw attached to the back of a pick-up truck.
57 second film clip, black & white/silent, of 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, greeting the crowd, and then climb back into the...
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.
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...
47 second, black & white/silent, film clip of someone painting and sealing a boat. This is followed by views of boats on Harding Lake including a canoe, a motor boat, a row boat and a sail boat. It is possible that most of these are the same boat...
45 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Robert & Marion Hall Collection." Film shows a Bellanca landing at Weeks Field in Fairbanks and a patient being unloaded from the plane in an awaiting ambulance owned by Dr. de...
44 second, black & white/silent film clip. Clip shows a Ford Tri-motor airplane. Men crank start the plane, which then taxis down the snowy runway and takes off.
39 second film clip, black & white/silent, of a small, single-propeller airplane landing and taxiing to a hanger. A person on a stretcher is transferred from the airplane to an ambulance with "de la Vergne" written on the side..
35 second, black & white/silent, film clip of scenery filmed from a moving train, of the Alaska Railroad station in Fairbanks, of disembarking passengers and of cargo being unloaded. At the end of the clip, Alaska Railroad Engine No. 1 can be seen.
1 min, 13 sec film clip, black & white/sound. Barbara Lindberg, being interviewed, talks about her memories of Weeks Field. The audio may come from an interview between Barbara Lindberg and Margaret Van Cleve on April 27, 1994.