(2:39 min.) (06 of 12) Types of development in Alaska after Statehood and the Resource Article development -- resources; 33 -- strategic minerals; undeveloped minerals -- Alaska; oil on Arctic Coast; 1920 -- husband forced down; Prudhoe Bay --...
(3:57 min.) (09 of 27) Denali Highway
One of the complaints is that the Road Commission did most of their own work and contracted out very little. There was no profit in bringing the equipment all the way here. Setting up base and...
100 second film clip, color and black & white with an audio track. The clip shows damage from the 1964 Earthquake and the resulting tsunami. The audio track remarks on the dollar value of the damage, the loss of industry and effects on the...
14K pin in form of a butterfly with outstretched wings. 14K gold backing in form of butterfly as base with nuggets, cut-outs, wires, added to form relatively realistic figure. 1 in. vertical and 1 7/8 in. across the open wings. Well-made and in...
33 second film clip, color/silent. Film show the forward operating base on Adak during the Aleutian Camapign of WWII, consisting of tents erected on a grassy field.
5-piece German style band dressed in lederhosen performing on the tarmac. The sign in front of the tent reads "United by Love on Food for the Shares. Most gripping, soul stirring melodrama. Added attraction, Hugo Hesenfeffer and his musical...
[lined up in field: Joe Werner (?) (first at left, standing), Art MacKinnon (in dark sweater, center), _____ Pegues and Jerry Godkin (standing fifth and sixth from left)].
[Mg] Simon Bolivar Buckner, was commanding general of the Alaska Defense Command when war broke out at air base headquarters on Amchitka Island in May 1944. General Buckner first commanded the Alaska Defense Command as a colonel in July 1940. That...