61 second film clip, black & white with audio track. The clip shows the damage done to the village of Chenega by the 1964 Earthquake and the resulting tsunami. This is an excerpt from the film "The Great Land", produced for the State of Alaska...
[Northern Native camp along coast, possibly near the village of Tanuak; an animal hide is stretched between posts of a frame; a kayak rests on a support, which may be a tusk; a sailing ship is visible offshore.] Photographer’s number 343.
"After sorting, the grass blades are gathered in neat bundles and hung out to cure. Whenever a rain shower came along all the curing grass bundles throughout the village were whisked out of sight as if by magic." (Olaus J. Murie, Circa 1937)
"Bone diggers from U. of Alaska dug this up. It is part of an eskimos village 2000 years old. (Point Hope)." Wood and bone from an excavation unit at the prehistoric village, Point Hope, Alaska.
"Looking west from the village we see the school. The large building is the high school. On its left is the teacher's house. To the right is the elementary school. Farther to the right are the powerhouse (generator), and the oil tanks. Left...
"Peter John elected chief and his wife Susan in Arctic Village, The tall man is Guilbert Joseph a man from Anvik who married a woman from Arctic Village. The other man is unidentified." Visible in this photograph is a cabin with a flag out front...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
"Through the chow lines goes Governor William A. Egan of Alaska as he lunched with noncommissioned officers in charge of the 63 village detachments which make up the 1st and 2nd Scout Battalions of the Alaska National Guard. With the governor are...