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Juneau Alaska USA 1954 stock footage and images

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Will Rogers and Wiley Post take off in their floatplane from Fairbanks, Alaska. The plane later crashed, killing both.

Will Rogers and Wiley Post pose for pictures taken just before boarding Post's self-modified float plane that crashed en route to Point Barrow, Alaska, killing both Rogers and Post. The floatplane takes off from water. Map shows route: Juneau to Dawson, Fairbanks, Alaska; to Anchorage, Alaska and then back to Fairbanks. The words, "Point Barrow" animate on map - line running to Point Barrow, where the plane crashed after an engine failure, while taking off from a lagoon just outside of Point Barrow. Aerial views of the Arctic areas.

Date: 1935, August 15
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049976
Ships arrive for oil clean up and workers work on shore lines in Prince William Sound in Valdez, Alaska

Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in Valdez, Alaska. USS Juneau (LPD-10) arrives for clean up operation. A crane loads equipment onto the ships. Motors covered with snow. Women load equipment onto the ship. Women watch the bunk beds on the ship. People eat on the ship. USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) arrives for clean up operation. People spray water from pressurized water hoses on shore lines. Viscous oil absorbed by vacuum pump. Workers spray water for oil clean up. men sleep and relax on cars. Aerial view of the houses set up for the workers. Vehicles driven on road. People carry equipment for clean up. tent houses set up. Aircraft and helicopters on airport. Aerial views of houses and cars parked in front. Bears on a hill. Helicopters and other equipment during the clean up. men of landing crafts clean a beach. Men carry animals in cages towards a helicopter.

Date: 1989
Duration: 4 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067947
Street scenes of Anchorage, Alaska, in summer of 1954

A 1953 Cadillac sedan, covered with dust, drives along a road, passing homes in Bootlegger Cove residential neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska. Next sequence shows Fourth Avenue south of C street, with vehicles moving along the street and several pedestrians on the sidewalk . A hotel is identified by its sign. Street level closeup of the pink-colored MacKay building, at 337 E 4th St, at corner of E 4th and Denali Street. ( It opened in 1951 as Mount McKinley Apartments, was renamed the MacKay building, and decades later, renovated and called the McKinley Tower.)

Date: 1954, August 24
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035041
Information about unidentified airplanes is transmitted in the United States.

A public television program by the U.S. Army entitled 'The Big Picture.' U.S. troops are seen hunkered down and looking through binoculars in a defensive position in Korea, during the Korean War. American soldiers riding atop a Sherman tank on a city street in Germany, during World War II. Ski troops moving across snowy hill in Alaska. U.S. Army amphibious assault training on a beach in Puerto Rico. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen, narrator, speaks about America's defense against threat of atomic attack in these times of lukewarm peace. View of mountainous region in Alaska. A cluster of Cup'it Eskimo dwellings is seen on Nunivak Island, in the Bering Sea. Several of the local inhabitants are fishing through holes cut in the ice. Vapor trails are seen from Soviet aircraft flying at high altitude. A sign on a tarpaulin displaying logo of the Army Signal Corps, reads,"Alaska Communication System, Long Distance Commercial Telephone-Telegraph." A tracked vehicle carries a soldier to a facility posting a sign reading, "Alaska Communications System Receiver Station." Several tall antennas loom above the site. The soldier, dressed in arctic gear, steps from the tracked vehicle and walks past several snow shoes, standing upright in the snow, to enter a white wooden building. Inside, a man in civilian clothes works at a battery of telecomunications equipment. He transmits a message about the aircraft sighting, to the Alaska Communication System facility in Fairbanks Alaska (briefly shown) by means of a telegraph key. From there it is relayed to a Signal Corps facility, shown, in Washington, DC. A soldier is seen Inside that facility, in a room filled with computers and telecommunications equipment. A Sergeant handles paper tape messages being sent and received by teletype. Another soldier plugs connections into a communications switchboard. Next, the camera pans over the entrance to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the Pentagon. More views of soldiers attending banks of teletype machines. Animated map displays paths of orders being transmitted to U.S. Air Defense Centers in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, and Atlanta. View from control room, of several U.S. Air Force F-94 Fighter Interceptor aircraft on an airfield ramp. A controller activates a Klaxon horn and pilots on alert, in the Fighter Interceptor Squadron ready room, jump up and scramble to their aircraft. A pair of F-94s taking off. One is number 51-5385. Next, a U.S. Navy F-9 fighter plane is seen taking off from an airfield. It displays tail code AE. It is followed by another F-9 aircraft.

Date: 1954
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070284
Bus pulls out onto street at Anchorage Bus station, Alaska. Serviceman arrives home at base housing

Bus pulls out onto street at Anchorage Bus station, Alaska. Next seen is living quarters and housing units for military personnel in Anchorage. U.S. military serviceman coming come drives a 1953 or 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air sedan 4 door car in neighborhood. He arrives in front of a housing building. Family members come out to greet him before they head into housing.

Date: 1954, May 28
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035026
Organizational chart reads CINCAL COMMANDER IN CHIEF, ALASKA at Elmendorf Air Force Base Alaska.

Organizational chart reads CINCAL COMMANDER IN CHIEF, ALASKA at Elmendorf Air Force Base Alaska. Arrow pinpoints AAC, Alaskan Air Command.

Date: 1954, October 7
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034952