76 second film clip, color/silent. Film shows a C-130 Hercules taking off from Fairbanks and flying to Sagwon. Once it lands, the cargo is unloaded. The front of the airplane bears the word "Interior".
Title from caption. Photograph of the mail carrier leaving Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the right is the mail carrier leaving the village bound down river. Before we came mail was delivered thus once every four weeks...
Title from caption. Photograph of the entrance to Miles Canyon. Narrative in photo album reads: "Below the entrance into Miles Can[y]on, the watery grave of many a miner. The sides are perpendicular rock from the swiftly flowing water. Once...
(4:15 min) (19 of 27) Haul Road -- Bettles
Once they made it to Bettles they had to refit equipment. There was too much wind north of Bettles, canvas was okay for a while but had to build with more substantial metal and wood. Snow ramps to...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from caption. "11501 -- (8) At the time of the breaking up of the ice, the Alaskan days are already long, and the continued rays of the sun speedily reduce the blocks of stranded ice on the shores to their lowest terms. Within a...
Title taken from caption. Either in 1937 or 1938. Dam gates are open to clean the mud out of the pond. Dam had to be cleaned up once or twice a month." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 74 - 5, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4.
Title from back of photograph. Dedication September 3, 1922. According to Cole, this band was hastily assembled and had practiced together only once before this ceremony. There is no mention how they ended up sounding during the grand event....
Title by cataloguer. The Fur Seals are warm blooded. Their thick fur coats keep them warm in the Arctic. Once a year, the Fur Seals shed their fur as well as a layer of blubber under the skin. The Seals also have long sensitive whiskers that...
Title taken from caption. Esther Schaubel, whose rounds brought her to Point Hope once or twice a year, was a splendid source of Arctic Coast gossip, delivered along with immunizations, etc.
Title taken from caption. "13 Apr 45. [WACs setting type for printing]."
World War II changed the lives of women in significant ways. The war not only drew American women to the labor force, but it also brought them into the organized...
Photograph of a missionary's daughter, with this description: Daughter of a missionary holding purple flags, which grow wild in the deserted streets of what was once a populous white settlement.
Title taken from caption on Album. A close- up shot of George C. Thomas Memorial Library which was Fairbanks' only public library for 68 years. Named for a man who had never been to Fairbanks, Thomas was a Philadelphia banker who once saw a...
"HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaska Air Command] -- Heavy Damage -- Large scale damage was inflicted on the Alaska port city of Seward by the Good Friday earthquake and the tidal wave that followed shortly...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note.
"This Icepack, once used by Station personnel for ice skating, washed up to higher ground and broke up surrounding Navy Exchange warehouses with foot-thick ice slabs. For immediate...