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The "El Aquario" support ship for the U.S. Army Air Corps Alaska Flight Project, transiting Seymour Narrows, at Vancouver Island

Views from deck of the "El Aquario," supply ship supporting the U.S. Army Air Corps Alaska flight project in 1934. The ship is passing through the Seymour Narrows, on Eastern edge of Vancouver Island, Canada. A steamship is seen approaching from the South, astern. It is a three funnel passenger ship that passes to port of the El Aquario. View from pilot house of waters at North end of the narrows. Dolphins swimming along with the ship are seen from the bow. Seagulls land on the deck and superstructure of the ship. Strong tidal currents are seen flooding in from the North.

Date: 1934
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064902
B-24 aircraft wreckage in snow covered mountains of Attu Island, Alaska.

U.S. Army B-24 wrecked in May 1943 while trying to drop supplies to stranded Rangers of the Attu occupation in Alaska during World War 2. Snow covered mountains. Wreckage of B-24 crash in mountains

Date: 1943, May
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024662
Totem poles of Alaska with diffent figures representing different people and events.

Totem poles and large carvings made from trunks of trees by indigenous native Indians in Alaska. Different figures on poles represent different people or events. View of different totem poles in Alaska. Children listen to the story of totem poles from a carver. Many views of children looking at totem poles. A Tlingit Indian tribe totem house at the Totem Bight State Park near Ketchikan, Alaska. A man enters the community house. Scene changes to exterior of Tlingit Community House on Shakes Island in Wrangell, Alaska (now Chief Shakes Historic Site). Native people wearing chilkat blankets enter the house. View of a potlach ceremony with native instruments and dance outside the Chief Shakes Community House.

Date: 1960
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038983
Natives wrestle bare-skinned at Saint Lawrence Island in Alaska.

Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. The whaler at St. Lawrence Island. Natives on dog sledges arrive at the ship. Dogs and sledges near the ship. Natives wrestle on the ice, bare skinned and at 20 degrees below 0 temperature. The whaler in the background.

Date: 1915
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020842
Oil spill from Exxon Valdez; U.S. Coast Guard tracks oil spill in the surrounding regions of Alaska, United States

Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in Valdez, Alaska. Tug boats tow the Exxon Valdez to another island. Oil layer over water. The oil spread over water in the Kenai Peninsula. Oil spreads over water in the Gulf of Alaska. United States Coast Guard aircraft Dassault Falcon 20 in flight. Screen shows the tracking of oil spread. Pilot and copilot at controls. Men disembark aircraft. Ships loaded with man and equipment in the Prince William Sound. Men in the control room at work. Vice Admiral of U.S. Coast Guard Clyde E Robbins with other officers.

Date: 1989
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067945
Looking across Gastineau Channel at Juneau, the capitol city of Alaska.

View from Douglas Island looking across Gastineau Channel at the city of Juneau nestled at the foot of Mount Juneau (left) and Mount Roberts (right). At the time (1954) Juneau was the Capital of the Territory of Alaska. (Note: Gastineau Channel is a part of the "Inside Passage" of SE Alaska, a naturally protected waterway of the North Pacific Ocean.)

Date: 1954, January 20
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034988