Dredge and mining operations in Alaska

Mining activities in Alaska in the 1930s. Scenes depict dredges, a walking dragline, tailings piles, and miscellaneous mining-related operations, including workers removing pins from dredge buckets. (B&W/Silent/16mm film). This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-11853 from the Donald MacDonald Papers collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives. This film is a gift donated in the memory of Reino and Marjorie (MacDonald) Huttula by the Huttula Family. The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.