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- Title
- [Goodnews Bay Mining Company and Platinum area scenes 1]
- Description
- AAF-16390 is a super-8mm film labeled, “Start flight into camp, end with [illegible] and fox.” The film contains aerial views of snowy mountains as seen from a small airplane, coming in for a landing over a spruce forest onto a snowy runway, aerial scenes of a small settlement [possibly Good New...
- Date Created
- 1945-1965
- Title
- [Vince and Evelyn Guzzardi collection 2]
- Description
- This film consists of 3 reels of 8mm film that have been combined onto one reel. Reel 1 is labeled “2-0084” and contains footage of a parade in front of Pinska’s in Fairbanks, the University of Alaska power plant and campus in Fairbanks, and a Wien hangar and airport tower. Reel 2 is unlabeled an...
- Date Created
- 1955-1970
- Title
- [Stenberg films 6]
- Description
- This is a film that was developed in June 1959 and the early 1960s and is labeled, “St. Juneau - end is [illegible].” The film contains scenes of southeast Alaska, aerial views from a seaplane in flight, views from a small powerboat, a Grumman seaplane at a dock (N1019N), families swimming, a Pet...
- Date Created
- 1955-1963
- Title
- [Nyac]
- Description
- Filmed at the mining community of Nyac east of Bethel, Alaska. Footage includes buildings in Nyac, a boy riding a moped, children and people, loading amalgam into a furnace, pouring molten gold into a mold, a boy with a gold brick, men with matching bear hides (sow and cubs), men skinning a bull...
- Date Created
- 1945-1955
- Title
- [Rockney Family films part 3]
- Description
- Two smaller film reels were combined to make this item. Reel 1 is labeled “Whitehorse” and contains scenes of Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory, sternwheeler riverboats and an airplane on floats on the Yukon River, Riverboat Aksala, railroad tracks, the church at Bennett Lake in Yukon Territory, ...
- Date Created
- 1935-1955
- Title
- [Vince and Evelyn Guzzardi collection 6]
- Description
- This film consists of one reel of 8mm film labeled “People and Parties.” It contains footage of various locations throughout Alaska, a sign for ‘Evelyn’s,” a dog; the Traveler’s Inn, a number of well-dressed women exiting a building and showing off their clothing to the camera, a number of scenic...
- Date Created
- 1940-1969
- Title
- [President Eisenhower signing Alaska statehood documents]
- Description
- Footage includes a gold miner panning for gold, the Alaska flag, the U.S. Capitol Building, and President Eisenhower signing the statehood proclamation. Others present at the ceremony include Richard Nixon, Ralph Rivers, Ernest Gruening, Bob Bartlett, and Mike Stepovich. Following the ceremony, p...
- Date Created
- 1959
- Title
- Alaska 49th state : [part 2]
- Description
- This film was used for lectures by the Machetanzes when they travelled outside Alaska. Footage includes Open North American dog sled races in Fairbanks and Dr. Roland Lombard wearing bib number one. Additional images include travel on the Alaska Railroad during winter, a man with a reindeer in Fa...
- Date Created
- 1959
- Title
- [Lee family films 3]
- Description
- AAF-16346 is from a film containing the following note: “Jean, Ingrid and Norm at 18 Mile, Bob and Charlotte, Carl Elken[?] Matanuska, Ron and Norm Davidson Ditch, Harding Lake, dressed up for Easter, Jean in [??] parade, birthday Ingrid and Norman, reindeer [??] at university, Jean’s birthday pa...
- Date Created
- 1940-1967
- Title
- [Family scenes, Alaska Highway travel]
- Description
- Film contains footage of a little girl (aproximately 1 year old) at a birthday party with a cake and presents, a little girl playing with toys, a little boy's 3rd birthday party with children, cake, the child opening presents, a truck on a snowy road, scenic views of mountains and winter snowscap...
- Date Created
- 1950-1970
- Title
- [Hetherington films, reel 1]
- Description
- This film contains scenes of military or government-supported activity in the Interior and on the North Slope of Alaska, perhaps related to exploration work. It includes scenes of early helicopters, large tent camps, men setting up towers and talking on radios, aerial views of tundra and mountain...
- Date Created
- 1940-1955
- Title
- [Arnie M. Lee and Family collection - 6]
- Description
- This film is labeled "San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Alaska Hiway [Highway] to Fairbanks” and notes with the film say “Might be Arne Larsen film, Hiway driving Chevy, 1950s Chevy, Fairbanks, Dave Larsen?, Birch Hill, Dragline, Jergen mining, Gold Dredge Ester or Fox, Circle Hot Springs, J...
- Date Created
- 1950-1970
- Title
- [Lounsbury film collection 4]
- Description
- AAF-10856 includes aerial views of Nome, the Nome waterfront, aerial views of the Seward peninsula, a mining operation, a truck pulling a long length of pipe, Mirow Air Service Loening flying boat airplane, a dredge operating on the Seward peninsula, a Pacific Alaska Airways Lockheed Electra, a C...
- Date Created
- 1930-1960
- Title
- [Lee family films 1]
- Description
- AAF-16344 is from a film containing the following two notes: “Early film 1938 [??] Jean, Ingrid and Norman” and “Jean’s birthday 1947 party, 1948, 1949; Ingrid and Norm’s birthday; skiing with Guri, John, Arne and Margaret, Chena Slough; Enid[?] and Arne at Lost Lake.” The film contains scenes o...
- Date Created
- 1930-1967
- Title
- [My Hometown – Fairbanks, Alaska]
- Description
- This reel was made by combining two smaller reels. The original cans and reels are labeled: “Fairbanks U of A Exp.” and “Fairbanks High School.” Footage includes: a title screen reading “My Home Town Fairbanks Alaska;” a panoramic view of downtown Fairbanks, likely shot from the top of the Polar...
- Date Created
- 1956-1958
- Title
- Alaska 49th state : [part 1]
- Description
- This film was used for lectures by the Machetanzes when they travelled outside of Alaska. Footage includes the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner headline "Alaska 49th State," George Sundborg checking teletype and noting the passage of statehood legislation on June 30 1958, statehood headlines from the A...
- Date Created
- 1959
- Title
- [Chuck Gray film collection addition 2]
- Description
- The original reel and can notes for AAF-10076 are: "Dune Lake 1 and 2 - 1970, Beaver Creek 1956, and Old John 1 and 2 - 1970." The writing on film leader is "Dune Lk. 1989." The footage features building supplies being offloaded at a remote site in winter, a large vehicle with a trailer, a cabin ...
- Date Created
- 1956-1970
- Title
- [Hetherington films, reel 2]
- Description
- This film contains scenes of a large military parade in downtown Fairbanks, a sign for "US Navy Petroleum Exploration NPR4," military equipment on display near the Lacey Street Theatre area in downtown Fairbanks, a Cat train, military aircraft and pilots, sailors near an Interior dredge in operat...
- Date Created
- 1940-1955
- Title
- [Gold mining, Alaska travel and activities 2]
- Description
- Footage features people aboard a boat outside of Alaska, dog mushing, a tractor pulling a load of timber or logs with the Cushman Street Bridge visible in the distance, small girls at a birthday party, a girl with a dog, a bridge and road, people posing for the camera, a Farmall tractor pulling a...
- Date Created
- 1935-1960
- Title
- [Howard C. Robinson's Alaska film]
- Description
- AAF-11895 begins with the title screens: "Howard C. Robinson presents Alaska" and "Produced by Robinson Studios." Program includes scenes of the Inside Passage, Ketchikan, commercial fishing activities, Wrangell, Petersburg, Taku Glacier, Sitka, Skagway, White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad, Valde...
- Date Created
- 1945-1951