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Walter Hickel and Ermalee Hickel welcome U.S. President Nixon and First Lady Patricia Nixon to Alaska

U.S. President Richard Nixon and First Lady Patricia Nixon arrive at a lodge in Alaska and are welcomed by Former Alaska Governor and former Secretary of the Interior under Nixon, Walter "Wally" Hickel. Walter Hickel is joined by his wife Ermalee Hickel. Walter Hickel shakes hands with the President and his wife and talks to them. Patricia Nixon and Ermalee Hickel talk to each other. The dignitaries pose for a photo. Then they approach a small gathered crowd holding a sign "Welcome Pres Nixon Come Shake Hands." They greet the crowd. This is earlier in the day before Nixon welcomed Emperor Hirohito of Japan in Alaska.

Date: 1971, September 26
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057404
The Army Air Corps Alaska Flight support ship, "El Aquario," at Seward; Expedition train goes from Seward to Fairbanks.

View of Midnight Sun from bow of the U.S. Army Air Corps Alaska Flight support ship, El Aquario, underway in Alaskan waters. Mountains are seen as she proceeds through Resurrection Bay, towards Seward, Alaska. Views of the harbor at Seward, where several ships are seen. The El Aquario, seen at the dock in seward. The camera pans the pier, which contains rails for cargo handling. Another ship is docked behind the El Aquario. Slopes in background are covered in evergreen trees. Railroad station and warehouses are seen. View from atop a railroad train, shows rail lines, bridge, buildings, a ship in the harbor, and mountain in background. Captain George Goddard, supply officer for the expedition, stands with another officer and points to chalk writing on an Alaska Railroad caboose car reading: "Capt. Goddard return back on." He and the other officer are then seen on rear platform of that car on a railroad train. Goddard lights a cigarette. View from that caboose platform as the train pulls out of the Seward train station. View from atop the caboose showing the last six cars, containing expedition supplies, preceded by other cars making up a long train. Views of snowy landscapes beside the tracks as the train proceeds. Picture of the Fairbanks railroad station as the train arrives.

Date: 1934
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064905
Tourists aboard a steamer look at the Columbia Glacier and snow covered mountains during their voyage in Alaska.

View from deck of the Alaska Steamship line SS Aleutian, cruising in Alaskan waters. A small iceberg to starboard. Landscape of snowy Mountains and islands. Vicinity of the Columbia Glacier, at Valdez in Prince William Sound. Passengers walking along covered deck. The ship making way along the inside passage through protected waters in Alaska. Passengers inside the ship's salon, where they can view scenery through large windows. Most are seated, conversing, smoking, playing cards, and generally relaxing. View of upper deck empty of passengers. Liveboats covered with tarpaulins line edge of deck. Scenery as the cruise continues, includes occasional villages near waters edge, and ubiquitious snowy mountains. Spectators looking up at the ship as it approaches a pier in Cordova, Alaska. On shore, a passenger rail car of the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad is seen along with a number of automobiles. Change of scene to upper deck, where camera pans across the deck and along railings, showing passengers strolling, and sunlit scenery.

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064928
H W Terhune, the Executive Game Commissioner of Alaska inspects moose head along a lake in Alaska.

The Carpenter-Whitney Expedition in Alaska. Largest species of moose family, Kenai Moose spotted in a forest area. The moose walks into the bushes. H W Terhune, the Executive Game Commissioner of Alaska, with assistants, arrives by boat. The Commissioner inspects a large moose head along a lake.

Date: 1929
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063999
The Army Air Corps Alaska Flight support ship, "El Aquario," underway in the Gulf of Alaska

Views from the deck of the Army Air Corps Alaska Flight support ship, "El Aquario," as she makes way close to shore in the Gulf of Alaska. Snow covered mountains dominate the landscape. Bow waves break as the ship heads into less protected waters. She beins to roll in white-capped seas and then pitches and rolls with water breaking over her bow, in heavy seas.

Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064904
Fliers of the 1934 U.S.Army Air Corps Alaska Flight, amuse themselves in Fairbanks, Alaska

View of the new Federal Building on Courthouse Square, in Fairbanks, Alaska, where members, of the 1934 U.S. Army Air corps Alaska Flight set up an office, during their stay in Fairbanks. A flight mechanic attending to one of the YB-10 aircraft has with him, two black bear cubs on chain leashes. They cavort on the aircraft wing for the camera. Next, one bear cub is seen on the nose of the airplane. Finally, the two cubs play on a step ladder in front of an aircraft.

Date: 1934, July
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064912