(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
Title from verso. Photograph of a Civil Defense team as they move cargo destined for aid and reconstruction after the 1964 earthquake and tsunami. Full caption from verso reads: "HQ AAC -- HEAVY CARGO -- Civil Defense members of the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
6 min, 22 sec film clip, color/silent. Footage includes: men operating a hydraulic "giant", men drilling thaw points, interior and exterior operations of a gold dredge, excavation by bulldozer and steam shovel, men sluicing gold and scooping...
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...
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...
57 second, black & white/silent film clip. This clip shows facilities being constructed and some of the air craft destined to be sent to the Soviet Union for defense against Germany during World War II . Clip is an excerpt from the Universal...
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...
54 second, color/silent, film clip. Clip shows men loading wood onto the sternwheeler from the shore, feeding the boiler, and the operations of the sternwheel.
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
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...
64 second, black & white/silent, film clip of an aerial tramway. Ore is loaded into a mining cart from a hopper, then into the machines that crush and separate the rock from the ore.
(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...