(4:16 min) (13 of 17) Flying for DGGS pt. 2
As a pilot for Division of Geology and Geodetic Surveys had emergency call to fly in whiteout conditions to get a badly burned man at another station. Flying under 200 ft. elevation so not to miss...
(4:40 min) (12 of 17) Flying for DGGS pt.1
As a pilot for Division of Geology and Geodetic Surveys had emergency call to fly in whiteout conditions to get a badly burned man at another station. Flying under 200 ft. elevation so not to miss...
19 second film clip, color/silent, of a reindeer roundup on Nunivak Island, 1958-1967. It appears that men and women work together and use a long piece of material to herd the reindeer into the corral. Then two men wrestle a reindeer to the...
2 minute, 29 second film clip, black & white/silent.
Images include railroad station in Skagway, travel from Skagway to Whitehorse on White Pass and Yukon Railway, White Pass, passengers, police, and views of White Horse.
30 second excerpt shows the roadhouse built, owned and operated by Italian immigrant Maurice Morino (1870-1937) at McKinley Park (later called Denali National Park and Preserve); the backside of the entrance sign to McKinley Park; the McKinley Park...
35 second, black & white/silent, film clip of scenery filmed from a moving train, of the Alaska Railroad station in Fairbanks, of disembarking passengers and of cargo being unloaded. At the end of the clip, Alaska Railroad Engine No. 1 can be seen.
41 second film clip, black & white/silent. Scenes from the College train station. The self powered rail car from the J. G. Brill Company, or Brill car, ran between College and Fairbanks. The passengers may be students communting between...
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,...