(3:27 min) (12 of 19) Early Fairbanks agriculture Fixed thresher and then traveled to where the machine was needed. Description of the Rickert homestead -- 320 acres in Fairbanks.
(4:10 min.) (08 of 08) Living on a ship and coming back to port steam vessels -- engineer on tug boat; steam -- not as economical; life on a freighter; diesel -- machine shops; Alaska Steam -- shorter trips; more days off; repair and clean-up --...
(5:26 min) (13 of 19) Automobile repair shop Bobby Sheldon. Machine building and transportation. Tourism. Bought out automobile repair shop, and took over the buildings.
(6:42 min) (11 of 19) First jobs in Fairbanks W. F. Thompson, editor of the News Miner, interviewed them about the trip Sept 1, 1923. Rented cabin from Pete Steele. Went to church and got a job the next day. Got a job with the N. C. Co. ...
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.
65 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a small town newspaper being produced. According to the sign hanging on the building, Jack Allman was the editor and publisher. Possibly this is him in the clip. A man types and then makes copies of...
89 second, color with sound, film clip. From title frame: Excerpt from "Report from the Aleutians", a 1943 War Dept. film produced, directed, and narrated by John Huston. Note from catalog record: Produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps. ...
"Lt. William Sharrow gives instruction to trainees on the .30 cal. air cooled machine gun. Alaska guardsmen are trained to shoot and care for a wide variety of weapons."
Verso: Building on left store (also stored items there), now gone. Machine shop on right where Peter Warner keeps & repairs boats now. Bunkhouses in back.
Charles (artist). The window is made of 7 strips of seal gut, sewn with thread on a machine; 44.5 x 50.8 cm (17.5 in. high x 20 in. long). The center design in black paint is of a man with upraised arms spearing a winged fish.