32 second, black & white/silent, film clip of loading baggage on a steamer bound for the Klondike. A crowd of people are watching the hoist lift the luggage from the dock to the ship. Horses are pulling a "Rainier Grand Hotel" trolley or...
58 second film clip, color silent. From title frame: "Moving Images Collection". Film show whales surfacing at a breathing hole in the ice, the hole is surrounded by people watching and filming them.
"Norwood operating the 'giant', Meilandt watching. The spring of 1918 on Jack Wade Creek, in the Forty Mile country. Jimmy Morris one of the miners that I first met there, said these true words 'Mr. Norwood, this gold mining is allright, but,...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Aerial of people on shore watching commercial fishing boats of the Frustrated Independent Fish Harvesters (F.I.S.H.) attempt to blockade an oil tanker from docking, protesting oil spills that were preventable. Not allowed to fish because of mousse...
Aerial of people on shore watching commercial fishing boats of the Frustrated Independent Fish Harvesters (F.I.S.H.) attempt to blockade an oil tanker from docking, protesting oil spills that were preventable. Not allowed to fish because of mousse...
Captain H.W. Stinchcomb and Officer Wilson examining the waters off Kanaga Island from the crow's nest aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
During the 1920's, many of the original totem poles in Kake were burned. After many years of not having totem poles, the residents of Kake, Alaska organized to acquire and place a 132-foot pole in the town. Alaska Indian Arts, Inc. of Haines,...