Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Scenes of Alaska Highway travel, likely filmed in July 1957. Road signs including "bump," "slow," "steep hill," and "1 killed here 1951"; sign for Whitehorse in Canada's Yukon Territory; more road signs including warnings such as "caution," "road under repair," "watch for trucks," "danger falling rock," and "bad corner"; sign for Indian Graveyard at Mile 974.2; sign at Mile 1,000; sign for Beaver Creek Lodge; sign at leaving Yukon Territory and showing distance to Fairbanks, Alaska; welcome to Alaska and customs and immigration signs; Eagle River sign; travelers eating a meal off the car tailgate; sign "Welcome to College, Home of University of Alaska"; railroad depot in Fairbanks; sign "Welcome to Fairbanks Alaska End of the Alaska Hwy"; Santa Claus House in North Pole; sign "Entering North Pole, Slow to 25 mph"; Eielson Air Force Base welcome sign and aircraft at base; and Tanana River sign at Mile 275.3 (Color/Silent/16mm film).
These clips are from AAF-23002 of the Bruce and Sylvia Keller 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.
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.
Scenes of Alaska Highway travel, likely filmed in July 1957. Road signs including "bump," "slow," "steep hill," and "1 killed here 1951"; sign for Whitehorse in Canada's Yukon Territory; more road signs including warnings such as "caution," "road under repair," "watch for trucks," "danger falling rock," and "bad corner"; sign for Indian Graveyard at Mile 974.2; sign at Mile 1,000; sign for Beaver Creek Lodge; sign at leaving Yukon Territory and showing distance to Fairbanks, Alaska; welcome to Alaska and customs and immigration signs; Eagle River sign; travelers eating a meal off the car tailgate; sign "Welcome to College, Home of University of Alaska"; railroad depot in Fairbanks; sign "Welcome to Fairbanks Alaska End of the Alaska Hwy"; Santa Claus House in North Pole; sign "Entering North Pole, Slow to 25 mph"; Eielson Air Force Base welcome sign and aircraft at base; and Tanana River sign at Mile 275.3 (Color/Silent/16mm film).
These clips are from AAF-23002 of the Bruce and Sylvia Keller 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.
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.
