(3:06 min) (04 of 17) Flying business
June '47 bought an airplane and started work mostly near Aniak, Fairbanks, Circle, Fort Yukon wound up in Central. Went to Globe Arizona in the winters to take classes in air mechanic and everything...
(4:26 min) (05 of 19) Illinois Central Railroad Met a man working for the Illinois Central Railroad. Next job was painting for the Illinois Central Railroad. While he was there he put in for the steel gang building and repairing railroad...
(6:03 min) (15 of 27) Road building philosophy
Were the roads necessary? Roads were built to open up the country. Another philosophy pushed for more planning. Permanence of communities was always in question. People still needed...
19 second film clip, color/silent, of a reindeer roundup on Nunivak Island, 1958-1967. It appears that men and women work together and use a long piece of material to herd the reindeer into the corral. Then two men wrestle a reindeer to the...
31 second, color/silent, film clip of processing and preserving salmon along the Yukon River. Women, using ulus and knives, are cutting fish for drying. A man, using what appears to be a spear, tosses fish into a hole, probably to prepare...
50 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Stevens Collection, 1968?". Film shows a man working on a engine with a propeller. He then starts the engine and pushes his home-made snowmachine into motion.
59 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Stevens Collection, 1968?". Film shows a Yupik family entering and exiting a sod house on Nunivak Island, with a close-up of the enterance.
"Eskimo Scouts received awards Saturday from Alaska Governor William A. Egan (left). Gov. Egan prepares to present the Eisenhower trophy for the state's most outstanding National Guard unit to Sgt. George Whitman, Mekoryuk, representing Co. B, 2nd...
"SP3 Johnny L. Deston, Engr. Service Company, Ft. Richardson, Alaska, (cook) talks with KP's peeling potatoes (l-r) John Gregory of Bethel, Alaska, Pvt Louis Beebe of Eek, Alaska, and Ham Cleveland of Eek, Alaska. All the Kp's are memebers of the...
"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...
According to a Jan. 2, 2010, e-mail from Harold Jacobs, Cultural Resource Specialist of Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, "This was probably a 'shoreboat' in Sitka. ...