A 20th-century portrait of Lake Clark, Alaska, 1900-2000 / John B. Branson.

9780692204894
069220489X

Anchorage, AK : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Lake Clark National Park : Preserve, Alaska Association for Historic Preservation, 2014.

English

viii, 264 p. : ill., maps, ports. (some col.) ; 21 x 30 cm. + 1 videodisc (4 3/4 in.).

F912.C47 B73 2014

0648

Shipping list no.: 2014-0055-S.
The DVD illuminates life in 20th century Lake Clark with additional photographs not reproduced in the book and excerpts from home movies, including the earliest know films of the area (1927: Pioneering aviator Russel Merrill filmed by Butler Greer, a big game hunter from California ; late 1930s: Star Airlines airplanes and the Denisons in their gardens filmed by Virgil Hanson, a radio repairman for Star Airlines ; 1939: Local residents filmed by John Meggitt, a Bristol Bay school teacher). The DVD's soundtrack includes Dena'ina music recorded by school teacher John Coray at Nondalton in the mid-1950s, the first ever recordings of the Athabascan Indian music.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258) and index.

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