Alaska Film Archives - UAF | Anchorage covered in ash after 1953 Mt. Spurr eruption @alaskafilmarchives | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
Scenes following the July 9, 1953, eruption of Alaska's Mt. Spurr include headlines from the Anchorage Daily News, a car and airplane covered in ash, a map showing Anchorage and Mt. Spurr, Anchorage through ash clouds, and aerial views of the volcano. Although the eruption was not anticipated, no major injuries were reported. Mt. Spurr is located approximately 81 miles west of Anchorage. Thick ash covered Anchorage, Turnagain Arm and the Village of Tyonek. In 1992, another eruption from the same peak again coated the region in ash (Color/Silent/16mm film).
This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-11871 from the Wally Wellenstein 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 following the July 9, 1953, eruption of Alaska's Mt. Spurr include headlines from the Anchorage Daily News, a car and airplane covered in ash, a map showing Anchorage and Mt. Spurr, Anchorage through ash clouds, and aerial views of the volcano. Although the eruption was not anticipated, no major injuries were reported. Mt. Spurr is located approximately 81 miles west of Anchorage. Thick ash covered Anchorage, Turnagain Arm and the Village of Tyonek. In 1992, another eruption from the same peak again coated the region in ash (Color/Silent/16mm film).
This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-11871 from the Wally Wellenstein 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.
