Films of historical interest

Above: A crowd celebrates the Winter Carnival in Fairbanks circa 1940s. Includes scenes of children in thick parkas, and Leonhard Seppala with his dog team. 

Above: 49 second silent film clip of Leonhard Seppala's dog yard in Chatanika. Dogs are being put into a harness and dogs are pulling a sled. The man seen in the clips might be Leonhard Seppala. This film sequence is an excerpt of AAF-2240 from the Seppala-Hanks Collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Above: 27 second black and white, silent film clip of Leonhard Seppala in his dog yard, harnessing dogs, and mushing a team. This film sequence is an excerpt of AAF-2239 from the Seppala-Hanks Collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson

Above: One minute, 24 second silent film clip of Leonhard Seppala in his dog yard harnessing dogs and mushing a team. This film sequence is an excerpt of AAF-2240 from the Seppala-Hanks Collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.