(6:02 min) (14 of 17) Fur buyers made use of airplanes Fur buyers rarely dealt directly with trappers. Fur buyers never quibbled about price, but always had a case of booze to aid in the negotiations. Regular mail service destroyed the fur...
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
14 min, 10 sec film clip, color/sound. From voice-over introduction: "This week's edition of The Alaska Report features a recent floor statement by Senator Stevens on recent attmpts to rewrite the history of the United States involvement in...
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...
35 second, color/silent, film clip of the ground clearing for the construction of the Northward Building. Seen in this clip is the demolition of a building with the use of explosives.
37 second film clip, black & white with audio track of, Jay Hammond testifying before the Joint Federal State Land Use Planning Commission while mayor of Bristol Bay Burough. Jay states that local residents do not want a road from Anchorage to the...
48 second, color/silent, film clip of people engaged in various forms of handiwork. Women are working with leather, perhaps crimping soles with their teeth. Another woman is sitting on a semi-subterranean building grinding something with a...
50 second, color with audio track, film clip. The clip shows the use of plastic foam planks in road construction in Alaska. The clip is taken from the movie "Rendezvous with Destiny".
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...
57 second, black & white with audio track, film clip of Jay Hammond discussing the difference between the sightseeing tourist to the sport hunter/fisher before the JFSLUPC (Joint Federal State Land Use Planning Commission) at Naknek, Alaska. Jay...