(4:14 min.) (07 of 08) 7. Population dislocation. Average person in Anchorage has lived here less than five years, only came to take advantage of the money, and plans to retire elsewhere. The less educated people raised in rural Alaska...
(5:14 min.) (02 of 12) Building up defenses/Dutch Harbor and Adak Chief of construction operations--built 64 installations--Mostly coastal installations--Umnak Island construction 802 engineers/ 807 engineers Drexler?--attack on Dutch...
(5:40 min.) (06 of 20) Nome/Communications--Nome--Yearly operations--Shipping--Cargo--ACS--Communications--Shipping an airplane--Teletype machines--Operation changes and modern communications
05 A plane of her own (5:30 min.) (05 of 09) There was no flight instruction in the winter so Pearl was laid off. She spent the winter of 1945 at the University at Fairbanks. She saw the Russian pilots flying the lend lease planes. Margaret...
103 second, black & white/sound film clip. From title frame: "Dec. 22, 1944 / National Archives Collection". Film shows aspects of the lend-lease act, including road construction, Russian, American, and Canadian military personnel, and...
13 sec film clip, color/silent. Clip shows a man driving thaw points and, briefly, a gold dredge. From the video "Alluring Alaska", used for lectures by the Machetanzes when they travelled outside of Alaska.
2 min, 10 sec film clip, color/silent. Gold dust is poured from a bag into a gold pan. There are shots of a smelting furnace, men operating the furnace, a hot gold ingot, molten gold being poured into a mold, and a cooled ingot being shaped...
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...
3 min, 57 sec film clip, black & white/silent. A man takes a shovelful of dirt from several dredge buckets and runs it through a rocker box, then pans the dust for gold. According to the catalog record for the film containing this...
52 second, black & white/silent, film clip of people and airplanes at Merrill Field.
Greg Herrick provided the following information about the biplane with people standing in front (tail number NV 977Y) Acquired by Harold Gillam for use...