10 min, 2 sec film clip, color/sound. Ted Stevens gives an update on current work in the Senate to authorize development on Alaska's coastal plain; thanks long-time staffer Marie [Matsuno] Nash, who recently retired as director of Stevens's...
9 min, 3 sec. film clip, color/sound. Ted Stevens gives an update on current work in the Senate to authorize development on Alaska's coastal plain; thanks Janet Halverson; recognizes deployed U.S. military personnel; comments on regime change...
(2:12 min.) (12 of 12) Final comments for the record -- proud of Alaska; working within the government; obtained Statehood -- without revolution; Alaska -- finest state in the Union; delegates -- thinking of the future; resources -- Natives;...
Comments from village presentations: "Pictured here are Eleanor (Cleveland) Marina, Colonel Riley, Catherine Cleveland, Vera Cleveland, Robert Cleveland, Margaret (Lee) Sheldon, Sarah Tickett, Larry Custer Sr."
Comments from village presentations: "Bessie (Custer), Eleanor Cleveland, Margaret (Lee) Sheldon, Sara (Cleveland) Tickett, Evelyn Gray, Catherine Cleveland".
Comments from village presentations: "Taken in front of the school. Pictured here Larry Custer, Carryl Sun, Ruth Tickett, Sarah Tickett, Vera Cleveland, Walter Douglas?, Colonel Riley, Margeret (Lee) Sheldon, Eleanor...
(5:11 min) (27 of 27) Final Comments
Winter road north from Eagle and Circle to the DEW line. Built by Alaska Freightline. LaTourneau trains, made for the desert, were not very successful here. Less paperwork makes for more fun in the...
Additional comments from village presentations read: "L-R: Harry Brown, Herbert Custer (?), unindentified person, Stanley Johnson, Charlie Sheldon, Jean Collins, Richard Collins."
Lettering on boat reads: "RUTH 31E842". Additional comments from village presentations read: "Harry Brown (white man) came up to the Upper Kobuk in the early 1940s. He owned the first store in Kobuk. He married...
Additional comments from village presentations read: "They could be making fish traps under the ice or making a dam (blocking) for under-ice fishing. Blocking the channel diverts the fish."
Full note reads: "Charlie Lee pulling logs for Collins' cabin up Quikcherk Creek with CAA tractor. Kobuk River." Additional comments from village presentations: "Quicksherk (misspelled). It might be spelled...
Additional comments from village presentations read: "Harry Brown's 2-nd boat. Harry Brown is to the left of the picture. The boat was called the Bucky B. barge and it hauled barrels of fuel for the upriver...
Full comments from verso read: "HQ AAC -- TIDAL WAVE DAMAGE -- Inrushing seas at Seward, Alaska, following the Good Friday earthquake, accounted for more damage than the 'quake itself. Here, a gigantic 200 ton diesel switch...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Men at Alaska Engineering Commission railroad construction site after explosion that killed construction contractor and construction worker and injured two other construction workers along Turnagain Arm in Alaska. Comments with arrows read:...
Comments by R. N. De Armond: A good picture of the steamboat AURORA. One AURORA owned by Captain Williams, was reported at Rampart May 30, 1901, getting ready for a trip up the Tanana. She could carry 30 tons of freight and 10 passengers, which...
Comments by R. N. De Armond: The boat had an iron hull and was put together at-Saint Michael in 1898. She measured 49 tons gross. In 1944 the hull was in use as a barge by the Black Transportation Company (MacBride's list, Alaska Weekly 8/11/44)
Comments by R. N. De Armond: The boat had an iron hull and was put together at-Saint Michael in 1898. She measured 49 tons gross. In 1944 the hull was in use as a barge by the Black Transportation Company (MacBride's list, Alaska Weekly 8/11/44)