2 min, 54 sec film clip, color/sound. Title frame identifies clip as color/silent. Senator Ted Stevens discusses an amendment proposed by Sen. Paul Tsongas to the Alaska Lands Act, particularly, its effect on mining operations and...
41 second, color/silent, film clip of Eskimo dancing at Kotzebue. Children watch from the background. Further information was supplied by George Taylor at the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Convention held at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks,...
Alaska Air Transport, a commercial air carrier business started by Shell Simmons in 1935, merged with Marine Airways in 1939 to create Alaska Coastal Airline Note on verso identifies the plane as a Lockheed Vega
Baseball team on playing field, Anchorage, Alaska, with tents and spectators in background. From front: "Anchorage - July 4th 1915." From verso: "4 from left is Archie Lewis. 3 from left believed to be Mr. Barnett. July 4, 1915. Taken at foot of...
During the winter of 1895-96, Lockie MacKinnon and George Miller erected the Circle City Hotel on Third Street in Juneau, between Seward and Franklin Verso identifies the two people in the center of the image as Lockie MacKinnon and his son...
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...
Inscribed on front, "To Shell, Thanks! Mayor Fran Ulmer" Note on verso identifies people as Dan Amundson?, Bill Overstreet, Jim Johnson, Fran Ulmer, and Shell Simmons
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Title by cataloger. At left is a vehicle that may be a forklift. At center are a pallet of boxes and two carts loaded with boxes and bags. At right are elevated platforms with "igloos" (cargo containers), two of which seem to bear the letters...
Title by indexer. Large cargo containers ("igloos") are stored on high platforms on the runway. The igloos are all labeled "Heathair" or "Heath air", and two bear the letters "WCA". In the middle are two carts full of boxes and other packages. ...
Title by indexer. "Igloos" (cargo containers) sit on elevated platforms and cargo lifts, and other boxes sit stacked on cargo trailers. At right, a forklift loads or unloads boxes to or from a Wien Consolidated jet. The fuel truck at center...
Title by indexer. "Igloos" (cargo containers) sit on elevated platforms and cargo lifts, and other boxes sit stacked on cargo trailers. At right, a forklift loads or unloads boxes to or from a Wien Consolidated jet. The fuel truck at center is...