(2:44 min) (14 of 27) Assistance from the community
Alaska Road Commission built roads with the assistance of local miners. The miners would volunteer their time, fuel, and equipment.
(4:11 min) (20 of 27) Haul Road -- Cook & conditions
Cook volunteered to go along when he heard about project. He handed out cookies to the kids, helped in building community relations. Construction was moving slow; there were just not...
(4:51 min) (02 of 25) Personal background
office work; Valdez; Ketchikan; steamship company -- like family; spirit of adventure; Alaska Steam -- important community; changes; Fairbanks; Alaska Railroad; competition; freight
85-second, color with sound film clip. .Emil Notti interviewed in a public place about how the Nixon budget cuts will impact the Departament of Labor, the Rural Electrification Administration, and community infrastructure.
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...
A community of shacks built from whatever materials were available, which sprang up near Peger Road in Fairbanks during boom years associated with the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
A view across the parking lot to the front of the one-story church building in Palmer, Alaska. From caption: "Palmer, in the matanuska Valley. The Community Church." Original photograph size 4" x 4 3/4".
According to the teacher's report in the Historical Record, there were no living quarters provided for the teacher; she goes on to write: "To go into a new community and rent a house; then clean it up and assemble a few necessities for housekeeping...
Aerial view of Anchorage Community College campus during construction in Anchorage, Alaska. Aug. 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Aerial view of Anchorage Community College campus under construction in Anchorage, Alaska. Aug. 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".