William Asberry “Berry” Gilcrease slides

Guide to the William Asberry “Berry” Gilcrease slides
1966

Collection number: HMC-0655.
Creator: Gilcrease, William Asberry “Berry.”
Title: William Asberry “Berry” Gilcrease slides.
Date: 1966.
Volume of collection: 0.1 cubic feet.
Language of materials: Collection materials in English.
Collection summary: Photographic images of various locations in Alaska and western Canada.

Biographical note:
William Asberry Gilcrease served as a medic during World War I. He was an accomplished world traveler and big game hunter. Gilcrease took photographs and motion picture film of his trips, and put together travel presentations for local clubs and schools. He visited Alaska and Western Canada in the summer of 1966.

Collection description:
The collection consists of the personal travel photographic slides of William Asberry “Berry” Gilcrease from the summer of 1966. The collection contains 254 color 35mm photographic slides from two separate slide trays, and accompanying lists. Some slides on the list were not acquired by the Archives. Towns depicted include: Sitka, Skagway, Fairbanks, College, Circle City, Nome, Kotzebue, Barrow, Kenai, Seward, Dawson Creek, Dawson, and Whitehorse. Highways depicted include the Alaska, Glenn, Richardson, Steese, Klondike, Seward, Sterling, and Denali. Special tours included trips on the riverboat Discovery from Fairbanks, and the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway from Skagway to Whitehorse.

Arrangement: Slides are in the order in which they were arranged in the original slide trays and on the caption lists.

Digitized copies: Digital copies of collection material are not available online. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact Archives and Special Collections.

Rights note: Archives and Special Collections does not hold copyright to this collection.

Preferred citation: William Asberry “Berry” Gilcrease slides, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.

Acquisition note: This collection was bought at internet auction by the Archives in 2003.

Processing information: This collection was described by Jeffrey A. Sinnott in 2004. The finding aid was converted to current standard by Veronica Denison in 2013. Descriptions are partially sourced from caption lists accompanying the slides.

Container list:

Tray	Item	Description	Date
1	1-9	Butchart Gardens, Victoria, British Columbia	1966
1	11-14	Totem poles, Sitka	1966
1	15-16	Sitka Pioneers Home	1966
1	17-21	Buildings on Main Street, Skagway	1966
1	22	Milepost 0, Alaska Highway, Dawson Creek, British Columbia	1966
1	23	Berry Gilcrease fishing in stream	1966
1	24	Roadside lake	1966
1	25	Lodgepole pine along highway	1966
1	36-28	Frozen lake	1966
1	29-32	Mountain range in distance beyond lake	1966
1	33	Highway and mountain scene	1966
1	35	Bill Gilcrease viewing glacier	1966
1	36	Roadside outhouses in deep snow	1966
1	37-38	Glacier field scenes	1966
1	39	Mountain scene	1966
1	40	Milepost 1523 of Alaska Highway at Cushman Street in Fairbanks	1966
1	41	Sternwheeler Nenana and pickup	1966
1	42	Arctic Primroses	1966
1	43	Sternwheeler on Tanana River	1966
1	44-45	Santa Claus House Santa sign and store, North Pole	1966
1	48	Gene and dredge buckets	1966
1	49-50	Native woman making baskets for sale	1966
1	51	Sternwheeler Discovery at mooring	1966
1	52	Chena Ice Classic pole at Native village	1966
1	53	Native men at boat making frames	1966
1	54	Fish wheel in river	1966
1	55	Men in UCLA Bruins baseball team jackets	1966
1	56	Tourists on deck	1966
1	58	Flags on boat	1966
1	59-60	River views	1966
1	61-62	Tourists on deck	1966
1	63	Boat moored on Tanana River bank	1966
1	64-65	Wickersham Hall at University of Alaska at College	1966
1	66	Lawn and buildings at university	1966
1	67	Three cars of Japanese tourists parked at Visitors Center in Fairbanks	1966
1	68-71	Melting ice	1966
1	72	Tundra wildflowers	1966
1	73-76	Melting ice next to highway	1966
1	77	Yukon River at Circle City	1966
1	78	View toward church in Circle City at Yukon River bank	1966
1	79	Yukon Trading Post at Circle City	1966
1	80	Pickup stuck in mud	1966
1	82	Tundra wildflowers	1966
1	83	Malemute Saloon at Ester	1966
1	84	Matanuska Glacier from Glenn Highway	1966
1	85	Flying to Nome: Aerial view of river	1966
1	86	Dog kennel (oil barrels)	1966
1	87-88	Native sales yard	1966
1	89-91	Native children	1966
1	92	Nome Nugget newspaper building	1966
1	93	The Glue Pot Soda Fountain	1966
1	95	Street scene: A. Polet store	1966
1	96-97	Tourist goldpanning	1966
1	99-100	Street scenes	1966
1	101-102	Native children	1966
1	103	Midnight scene	1966
1	104	Dandelions	1966
1	105-106	Natives bring in beluga whale	1966
1	107	Front Street scene	1966
1	108	Kobuk and Noatak Rivers	1966
1	109	Midnight scene	1966
1	110-112	Native dancers and drummers	1966
1	113	Native crafts on sale	1966
1	114	Midnight scene	1966
1	116	Gene on beach	1966
1	117	Fallen down barabara	1966
1	118-120	Aerial views from plane	1966
1	121	Wien Alaska Airlines Bus	1966
1	122-123	Barrow Post Office	1966
1	124	Natural gas line raised off of ground	1966
1	126	Utkeagvik Presbyterian Church	1966
1	127	Top of the World Hotel	1966
1	128	Emergency tracked vehicle and bulldozer	1966
1	129	Dirt street and flatbed trailers	1966
2	1-4	Gene on the deck of the Queen Prince Rupert Victoria Ferry	1966
2	6-8	Inside Passage views from ferry	1966
2	10	Distant view of ferry at Sitka Pier from shore	1966
2	11-12	Sitka totem poles	1966
2	13	Sitka Pioneers Home	1966
2	14	Boarding ferry at Sitka	1966
2	15	Ferry landed at Skagway	1966
2	16	Skagway Harbor	1966
2	17	Street scene with Golden North Hotel	1966
2	18-19	Waterfall and stream along Klondike Highway	1966
2	20-24	Views from train	1966
2	25	Trail of ’98 marker	1966
2	26-27	Views from train	1966
2	28-29	Lake views	1966
2	30-31.5	Ice-covered lake	1966
2	32-34	Railroad cleared of snow and ice	1966
2	35-37	Views near top of pass	1966
2	38	Timber	1966
2	39	Highway and snow fields	1966
2	40	Lake in moose area	1966
2	41	Pickup on highway	1966
2	42	Lake and mountain range from highway	1966
2	43	Highway view	1966
2	45	Gene on highway looking toward ice field	1966
2	46	Roadside outhouses deep in snow	1966
2	47-48	Pickup and sign at summit of Thompson Pass	1966
2	49	Highway and snow near summit of Thompson Pass	1966
2	50-51	Bridal Veil Falls in Keystone Canyon	1966
2	52	Horsetail Falls in Keystone Canyon	1966
2	53	Both waterfalls and road through Keystone Canyon	1966
2	54	Flooded oil storage and damage from earthquak in Seward	1966
2	55	Pier location before earthquake	1966
2	56	Earthquake damaged area near town	1966
2	57-58	Mountains along Seward Highway	1966
2	59	Russian Orthodox Church at Kenai	1966
2	60-63	Matanuska Glacier and river valley	1966
2	64-65	Mt. Sanford and Wrangell Mountains from Glenn Highway	1966
2	66	Flooded picnic area along Denali Highway	1966
2	67	View of mountains from Denali Highway	1966
2	68	Pickup camper on Denali Highway	1966
2	69	Mountain range before a storm	1966
2	70	Windblown snow area	1966
2	71	Caribou in McKinley Park	1966
2	72	Bull moose in McKinley Park	1966
2	73	Bird’s nest in McKinley Park	1966
2	74	New section of the Denali Highway	1966
2	75	View of mountains from Denali Highway	1966
2	76	Gene viewing mountains	1966
2	77	Old flume for hydraulic mining operation	1966
2	78	Pickup and ice along Steese Highway	1966
2	79	Ice along creek near Steese Highway	1966
2	80	Welcome sign at Circle City	1966
2	81	Yukon Trading Post at Circle City	1966
2	82	Malemute Saloon at Ester	1966
2	83	Native man and woman on bench outside store	1966
2	84-87	Blanket toss at Kotzebue	1966
2	88-94	The King Island Eskimo Dancers performing	1966
2	95	Gene and Kotzebue National Forest tree	1966
2	96	Distant Early Warning (DEW) line station	1966
2	97	View toward town	1966
2	98	Road to DEW line station	1966
2	99	Ice on Kotzebue Sound	1966
2	100-104	Native entertainers at Point Barrow	1966
2	105-106	Man carving walrus ivory	1966
2	107-109	Midnight sun from beach	1966
2	110	Sea and ice from Point Barrow	1966
2	111	View of the town of Barrow	1966
2	112	Gene on dog team ride	1966
2	113-114	Blanket toss	1966
2	115	People preparing for blanket toss	1966
2	116	Native celebration	1966
2	117	Sea ice from shore	1966
2	118	Gene and airplane	1966
2	119	Midnight sun from airplane	1966
2	120	Entering Yukon Territory sign	1966
2	121	Sign on Top of the World Highway 60 miles from Dawson City	1966
2	122	Robert W. Service cabin in Dawson City. Gene next to stove in interior	1966
2	124	Berry Gilcrease as Klondike Joe in Dawson City	1966
2	125	Sluice box in Dawson City	1966
2	126	Canadian Bank of Commerce building and steamboat in Dawson City	1966
2	127	Two old steam locomotives	1966
2	128	Five Finger Rapids on Yukon River	1966
2	129	Sam McGee’s cabin in Whitehorse	1966
2	130	Cemetery at Whitehorse	1966
2	131	Sightseeing boat Miles Canyon	1966
2	132	View of lake	1966
2	134	Russian Orthodox Church at Kenai	1966
2	135	Kenai River view	1966
2	136	Waterfall near Fairbanks	1966
2	137	Sitka Harbor view	1966
2	138	Creek and cabins	1966