60 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "KTVF Collection, 1970-1976". Film shows an aerial view of a forest fire burning in a black spruce forest.
84 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "KTVF Collection, 1970-1976". Film shows a helicopter dropping water onto a forest fire near Vundik Lake.
92 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "KTVF Collection, 1970-1976". Film shows airplane scooping up water from Vundik Lake, and then dropping it on a forest fire.
African-American soldiers stand at attention on the Klondike Company's wharf in Dyea. Note from Karl Gurcke: They were (in Dyea) for a brief period of time (July 1899) before they were burned out by a forest fire and had to move to Skagway.
Alan May poses in front of Mendenhall Glacier. From May's journal, dated May 27th: "The glacier is indeed a very wonderful sight - stupendous and magnificent. ...The blue and green coloring of the icy depths has to be seen to be believed."--p. 12....
Cyanotype photograph of Sunrise City, Alaska in 1898. View of several wooden buildings in a clearing in the forest, with mountains and water visible in the distance. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition led by Edwin...
Description from verso. Salvage operation in the beach at low tide. The islander is hauled up between ships Griffson and Forest Pride. Credit line: Ordway Photo
Following the war, U.S. Army forces in Alaska were primarily concerned with training. However, they rendered many services to the public in fighting forest fires, in search and rescue and medical aid. Soldiers from Fort Richardson guarded...