43 second, color/black & white/silent film clip of a wrecked Dickson Bering Sea Airways Waco biplane. A Woodley Airways aircraft is also seen later in the film clip.
52 second, color/silent film clip of a man hunting seal. He scratches a tool across the snow to make various sounds; the curious seal investigates and becomes vulnerable to the hunter's attack. The same tool serves as a brace for his rifle as he...
32 second, color/silent, film clip of the christening of the oil tanker ARCO Juneau. The shipyard and various buildings can be seen in the background. A crowd boards the ship on a gangway lined with bunting; a woman breaks the traditional bottle...
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.
(4:14 min.) (07 of 08) 7. Population dislocation. Average person in Anchorage has lived here less than five years, only came to take advantage of the money, and plans to retire elsewhere. The less educated people raised in rural Alaska...
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,...
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.
35 second, color/silent, film clip of the ground clearing for the construction of the Northward Building. Seen in this clip is the demolition of a building with the use of explosives.