Berry Post Office and Moody Mercantile, circa 1940s @alaskafilmarchives
Berry Post Office and Moody Mercantile, circa 1940s  @alaskafilmarchives
Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Members of the military and United Service Organizations (USO) visit the Berry Post office and Moody Mercantile at Ester, Alaska, and then take a closer look at some of the mining equipment in the area including a dragline bucket, a Bucyrus Monighan walking dragline, dredge and tailings piles (Color/Silent/16mm film).

This clip is from AAF-23399 of the Virginia Phyllis (Burkholder) Bennett 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.

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Berry Post Office and Moody Mercantile, circa 1940s

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