Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Scenes from Golden Days events and parades in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1952-2018.

Clips are from the following films and videos in collections 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:

Paolo Muran collection (2018)
AAF-1077 Fred & Sara Machetanz collection (1952)
AAF-16343 Arnie M. Lee and Family collection (1955)
AAF-9698 Merton Attwood collection (1950s)
AAF-16333 Arnie M. Lee and Family collection (1962)
AAF-7978 Chuck Gray collection (1966)
AAF-10072 Bill Larry collection (1970)
AAF-10407 Wheelock Family collection (1973)
AAF-19174 Comfort Family Films collection (1974)
AAF-10407 Wheelock Family collection (1978)
AAF-4161 Alaska Review collection (1980)
AAF-4162 Alaska Review collection (1980s)
AAF-10405 Wheelock Family collection (1983)
AAF-10409 Wheelock Family collection (1989)
AAF-10571 KTVF Television collection (2000)

Some segments are silent, as indicated in title screens.

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