A 20th-century portrait of Lake Clark, Alaska, 1900-2000
By: John B. Branson
Contributors: Lake Clark National Park and Preserve (Agency : U.S.)
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska Association for Historic Preservation
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Anchorage, AK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780692204894
Subjects: History; Ethnohistory; Discovery and exploration; Indians of North America; Antiquities; Dena'ina Indians
Notes: Shipping list no.: 2014-0055-S.

The DVD illuminates life in 20th century Lake Clark with additional photographs not reproduced in the book and excerpts from home movies, including the earliest know films of the area (1927: Pioneering aviator Russel Merrill filmed by Butler Greer, a big game hunter from California ; late 1930s: Star Airlines airplanes and the Denisons in their gardens filmed by Virgil Hanson, a radio repairman for Star Airlines ; 1939: Local residents filmed by John Meggitt, a Bristol Bay school teacher). The DVD's soundtrack includes Dena'ina music recorded by school teacher John Coray at Nondalton in the mid-1950s, the first ever recordings of the Athabascan Indian music.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258) and index.