Ketchikan, Alaska, 1986 @alaskafilmarchives
Ketchikan, Alaska, 1986  @alaskafilmarchives
Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Scenes of Ketchikan in 1986 include fishermen weighing and measuring salmon, homes along Ketchikan Creek, the ship North Star taking on supplies, floatplanes at dock, passengers disembarking from cruise ships, an overview of the harbor and downtown, logs and the pulp mill, and the Tunnel of Ketchikan. Filmed by Alaska Filmmaker Bill Bacon (Color/Silent/16mm film).

From AAF-20069 of the William W. Bacon III 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.

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Ketchikan, Alaska, 1986

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