(9:55 Min.) (01 of 09)
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...
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
1 min, 23 sec film clip, color and black & white/sound. Footage includes boys and girls skating in groups, men and women figure-skating and playing on the Chena River by the Cushman Street bridge, and an outdoor hockey rink at Griffin Park.
1 min, 29 sec film clip, black & white/sound. Mark Ringstad discusses the excitement every year in Fairbanks when the ice on the Chena River broke up and began flowing.
41 sec film clip, black & white/sound. Mark Ringstad talks about the regular flooding in Fairbanks of the Chena River. Footage shows scenes of people and downtown Fairbanks during one or more floods.