VIDEO
SUBJECTS -- STOCK FOOTAGE
O 8 # 1 -- Pioneer
scenes: Furniture making, wood stove with
bread by same, bed making, Kerosene lamp lit, horse and buggy and
driver, spinning
wool ( outside), long horn cow bellows,
sheep in old shed, girl gets water from well, birch bark basket making,
Flour
sack comic routine by Finnish lady, pigs in wooden pen, fish net
repair, old
wooden farm tools and fish net, washing machine 1907, horse runs wild,
girls
catch chickens in woods, wheelbarrow pushed, dove tails on cabin, woman
in silhouette,
Birds: mallard duck family by shore (3), baby bird calls from nest (3),
loons
seen through rushes (2) chipmunk in pine forest and chirps. Blue flag
iris
blows in wind (2) canoe in narrow river, hemlock tree, jewel weed, wren
enters
its nest, Al Gore in Canal Park,
beaver in St. Louis
River, Potlatch plant.
O 8 # 2 -- Birds:
Saw whet owl at Sullivan Lake, fishing from dock in Chambers Grove Park, picnickers in Jay Cooke Park, kayakers in Scanlon and rafters, Grouse hen
calls
chicks, farms in Stockton valley and related scenes. Mammals: fox den. Mississippi as seen from hilltop, cave that
held picto-graphs at Winona, Queen’s Bluff, DNR crew pull fish nets in
St.
River to check species, shelf fungus (1)
O 8 # 3 -- Mary Roberts interview on Duluth Scots,
father DM
&N RR president, bear on street car platform, had scarlet fever,
rode
basket on Aerial Bridge, boat club remembered, summer
cottages on Park Point, regattas recalled, Montauk, father entertained
President Coolidge, cut bandages in WW I, caught overseas when war
began (3), had
U-boat scare on way home on Franconia, visited logging camp by dogsled,
Congdon
apple business, had two telephones on different lines, tonsils removed
on
kitchen table, gold fillings pounded in with force, mother launched
ship named
for father, McGonigal, groceries brought to Gunflint cabin by mail,
lamb
incident (3) Ship Speer leaves port, ...wild flowers.
O 8 # 4
-- Grandma’s marathon of 1986, storm gathers and
breaks and ship aground, water wagon for road building, costumed people
by Minnesota’s first RR engine Crooks. Logging: forester
Buzz Ryan
interview in logging rooms, butter put in boots, old reflector oven,
dinner
pails and horn, retired AF General Wayne Gatlin
interview on history of Air Guard.
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8 # 5
-- Turk McGiffert interview, father made log loader, tells of log
rafting,
rafts held a million board feet, 5 day trip to Duluth, Hallet Dock history, amphitheater collapse
remembered.
Francie McGiffert interview on
Sinclear
Lewis whom she saw often during his time in Duluth.
Norwegian lumberjack Nels Stole
interview..tells of camp life...good food but many lice, all
ntionalities got
along well in camp..
Hinckley fire survivor
Sigrun Stromgren, age 101, interview in August, 1986 .
Panic on train, father jumped from it to save
his own life, remembered 1918 fire.
Duluth Board of Trade story on
grain .
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# 6 -- Endion
RR
Station move. Bird: Man feeds many gulls. (3) Sailboats and ocean ships
on Lake Superiorin same scene. Archaeological dig by G. Peters
at Wild
Rice Lake, ricing 2000 years old, friendly contact
here with different tribes, 30,000 pot
shards in two years. Charter
fishing boat by Arena. Coast Guard
boat leaves harbor.
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# 7 -- Julia
Marshall interview, spring streams, flowers, bird calls, Minnesota City scenes,
Orioles fight in sidewalk,
Fur Post at Pine City, NW Co.
Canoe, British
and USA flags, supply room, bunks, old wavy window
glass,
furs, living quarters.
Fort Snelling, uniformed guards, soldiers, musket cleaning,
scullery
maiden, cannon fired, supply room, bee’s wax melted in fire, flint
struck, more
wavy glass.
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# 8 -- Logging pix, log drive,
mill in Coquet, saw mill at
Warba, Skibo mill pond, Barrels on roof of Thompson mill, mill pond,
stacks of
logs, log raft, men on tug,
Part Two of Gatlin. Shot down
German jet.
Bailed out, saw UFOs while over Ashland (3).
Pat
Labadie on lumber business and shipping, 4000 men in Duluth mills in
1900 and
many pictures if above, part three of Gatlin and more pix.
Cedric Woodard interview,
sailed at age 14,
came to Duluth on sailing ship to get lumber, sailing ships sometimes
faster
than steamers, was shipwrecked twice, lighthouses vital for navigation,
saved
boy and two men from drowning, lost man overboard, Fitzgerald story,
last to
speak to Fitz, Swede captain on Averfors didn’t fear storm at first,
blames
skipper of Anderson for sinking.
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# 9 -- Catherine Ely
reenactment by Ann Crooks, Aerial bridge raised, power boats in
canal,
UMD sailing class, Catherine Ely part two,.
Voyageur’s Rendezvous at FortSnelling, soldier walks past bateau , fry
bread cooking, gentlemen and boy at table, cooking gear over fires, men
do
paper work at desk, NW Company flag, meat cut and put on spit, bag
pipers,
flint used to start fire, dough on stick over fire to make bannock,
general
camp scenes.
Old rose garden on London Road.
Peter Fagerwold interview,
reads newspaper, fished on
sailing ship near USSR, father’s cousin sent ticket to USA, cattle boat, big Irishman took top bunk from
Finn,
shoes nailed to the floor. Two weeks to cross Atlantic, threshed grain
in
Dakotas, rusty cup filled with tomatoes made him sick then cook fired,
went on
log drives, worked as a swamper, had just two blankets and no pillow. Straw boss shot deer for camp food but it
was too fresh, logged in Knife River in 1906, worked 40 years at Duluth coal docks, ( Part two of interview on tape
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tape 10 -- Interview with Dr. Bruce
Erickson. (See also tape 30) Shows Mesabi Range ancient sea life such as trilobites, shows
vertebra from plesiosaur,
sawfish, crocodile, mammoth teeth, giant beaver, shark teeth, ground
sloth.
Bear eating apples, Bayfield Apple
Festival,
bear with cubs, Fort Michilimackinac, sailing ship “Welcome”, pit saw
demonstration ,broad
axe use, sawmill operation, paddle wheel, rail splitting, archaeology
at mill
site. Ellie Newhouse on 1918 fire.
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tape 11 -- Blue heron,
Mississippi barge through lock,
brownstone pictures, glacier scrapes at Brighton Beach, victory chimes
arrival,
pioneer homes, Fagerwuold (age 106)interview part 2, first plane flight
at 104,
Canal Park windstorm.
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tape 12 -- Trout fisherman
near Lester River, trout lilies by
clear stream, catkins, kids and dad fish in Lake Superior, woman nets
rainbow
trout, gulls circle over shore (1), closed gentian, Scott fishing in
Lake
Isabella, least chipmunk and mate, Scott wades into rapids, (3) loon
looks
underwater, loons on Trappers Lake, (3) beaver swim toward camera,
Scott in
canoe on Trappers Lake, Lester River waterfalls, Congdon Creak with
waterfalls
and red berries, mouse on a stub (2) racoons feed in back yard.
O 8 tape 13 -- 1000 footer
scene from hilltop
includes view of big sailing ship Victory Chimes, mountain ash berries,
bear in
yard on Greysolon Road, chinook fishing at Lester River, Seven Bridges
Rd.,
people at Hawk Ridge, Will Steger does commercial, Victory Chimes,
Chester Park
in fall colors (2) UMD rock climbing on Ely peak.
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8 tape 14 -- More UMD rock climbing, drinking
from Hillside spring, railroad tunnel at Ely peak, ocean ship “Federal
Schulet
at Cargill” Victory Chimes, blue jay at feeder, fall colors.
O 8tape 15 -- Floyd
Hanson interview on 1918 fire, fall
colors with blowing leaves, interview with Laura Wagner.
O 8 tape 16 -- Storm gathers
over Lake Superior, orange clouds over Park Point, birds eating Mt. Ash berries (3) bear in Apple Orchard.
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8 tape 17 -- Doctor Bagley historic film on
video, CCC winter camp, men save starving deer, deer on fender of old
car, (2)
men with crosscut saw, CCC men with small deer in winter, Jay Cook Park
wooden
bridge in 1930s, (3) mother bear and cubs in CCC camp, men haying with
pitchforks and horse power, (3) thrashing machine in use, (3) old
tractor and boom
picks up hay, corn harvesting with tractor, pheasant hunting in
cornfield,
Duluth zoo elephant and various other animals, (2) zoo keeper wrestles
withlion
cubs and dog, wolverine in pen, hippo in water, moose in forest, 1956
centennial parade in Duluth, (2) bears pull float in parade, (3) Albert
Woolson
funeral, (2) Mike Shabaiash parches wild rice in iron kettle, repairs
birch
bark basket, winnows rice in basket, baby
brought home from hospital, channel 8 in Bradley building, Bear
river
phone company, Mahtowa in print shop, sets type, air guard refueling
F-102
jets, jets landing, fuel testing, Bayfield apple blossoms, pioneer
Hardy Wilson
at Highway 4 homestead, sharpens axe on grindstone, chops firewood,
wife cooks
on wood stove, lights kerosine lamp, winds Seth Thomas clock, woman
puts wool
socks on frame, Finland radar base in operation, spinning wheel maker,
moose
researcher Jim Peak.
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tape 18 -- Juncos feed on ground, Park Point in winter, old
lighthouse
at end
of point, gros beaks feed on log, Canada jay feeding on suet (several
scenes).
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8 tape 19 -- (2)backyard birds feed in
colored leaves, (3) blue jay in leaves, (3) fisherman on gravel bar at
sunrise,
snow buntings by road.
Brown stone quarry with historian Doctor Coventry explains work.
O 8 tape 20 -- From16 mm
film --
Mallards
walking on ice, flying squirrels in nest, fisher in fall leaves, spruce
grouse
in snow covered spruce, yellow pond lilies, loon on Blue Lake, egg in
loon
nest, (3) red fox digs for food, Louisiana DNR bear trappers on
Gunflint trail,
(1) fishing boats at Bayfield with trout in nets, F-102 jets in the
air, Dean
Anderson illegally snares wolves, sheep sheering in Wrenshall,
porcupine in
birch tree eating buds, forrest fire scene from air, eagle nest as seen
from
tree climbing, (2) two eaglets in nest, crossbills (2) pine grosbeak on
low
branch close up, (2) crossbills eat pinecone seeds, robin with deformed
bill,
commercial Bayfield fisherman with trout, running fish tug with trout
in nets,
Indians gather wild rice near Coquet, wolf research plane in winter,
man cuts
cedar for hungry deer, squirrel in birch stamps feet, Isle royal dock,
(2)
Washington Creek campground moose feed in the water, (4) moose close up
chews
and submerges, (1) burning dump with man in scene, young wolf by
stream,
Dorothy Molter harvests ice and chops wood, (2) Finnish men build cabin
at 4H
camp, man calls moose with birch bark horn, (2)grouse eating buds in
winter,
hen spruce grouse in tree, bear hibernates under spruce, (2) bull moose
with
cows at Moose Lake, otter in snow, robin eggs in nest, oriole builds
nest,
egret on nest, (2) blue heron on nest, snow shoe hare close up in
winter,
fisher fed with eye dropper, pine marten in winter scene, (1) buffalo
in winter
roles in dirt, (3) fisher plays with grandpa, pioneer uses gas engine
to power
saw, man turns crank on forge, (2) man cuts grass with long handle
scythe.
(3) Herb Clow shows bear scars,
hungry deer
at herbster, (2) deer walk on ice, (2) sharp tail grouse dancing,
(2)forest
fire on Echo Trail 1971? (4) wolf in snow close up(1) pine marten in
tree (2)
bears at Clows home, common turn on nest at terminal, (3) hawk hovers
for 17
seconds, moose and wolf tracks together in snow, moose hair from wolf
attack.
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8 tape 21 -- Video from film --
Various
birds at feeder in winter, Stockton grist mill in winter, old toll
bridge,
wooden weather vane, front of Norwegian log cabin, geese on Silver Lake
in
Rochester, Canada jay eats dead deer, (3) chickadees feed on dead deer.
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8 tape 22 -- Fisher tracks in snow, (2) open
stream in winter, Mr. Becks 90th birthday, moose bull runs
down
winter road, Jim Peak sets up moose drive, man with dart gun, radio
collar for
moose, Peak works on frozen moose head, (1) man holds moose leg
infected from
rifle bullet, man butchers moose in woods, radio tracking of wolves by
researcher Vic van Ballanberge, scats picked up on frozen lake, (3)
Dean
Anderson with snared wolves, wolf blood sample taken, (1) spruce grouse
male
displays for hen, (2) moose feed in deep water on Isle Royal, YCC boys
line up
for moose drive, Peak in cabin with research gear.
O 8 tape 23 -- Most from
16 mm film: --
Flying
squirrel in nest, (3) red fox digs for mice, ruffed grouse on drumming
log,
winter wolf study by Ballanberge, DNR staff meeting on wolf, DNR
samples deer
jaws, (3) wolf blood tests and ear tagging, (3) fisher in fall colors,
ice
covered fish nets and boat, (3) golden eagle close up in fall, (3)
great grey
owl misses mouse in snow, (3) man comes to get wolves in
snare, men build log cabin
with old tools, Pidgeon River sluice and boom old dam, old Finnish farm
with
sharpened hay poles, blue heron walks in swamp to feed, snow shoe hare
eats in
winter, common turn on nest, (2) spruce grouse drums on log, broken
eggs in
gull nest, yellow headed blackbird close up, (1) white throated sparrow
on
ground, (1) salamander on mushroom, (3) pileated woodpecker feeds young
in red
pine, flying squirrels in human hand, black bear at Clow home, (3)
dragon fly
emerges from crysalis, (1) great grey owl in winter, logging in 1960s,
(3)
robin and young in nest she takes fecal sacks, (2) log raft at Grand
Marais,
old fisherman uses turn stile for boat, lighthouse bulb replacement at
Split
Rock.
O 8 tape 24 -- Back in time
players on
temperance, Grand Canyon, Assayer office
in 1900, fools gold, mica
sample, disease warning signs for whooping cough, diphtheria, and
measles,
settlers log cabin.
O 8 tape 25 -- Voyageurs
story, more of
temperance play.
O 8 # 26 -- Old photos of
Duluth to
1915...Mammoth Tavern, Superior Street after heavy winter storm,
Superior
Street with horse carts in summer, man loafing on corner , Elevated
shot from 6th
west, Fifth Ave. West general scene, boy in street with little traffic,
people on corner looking east
from Lake
Avenue.
1879 board sidewalks- unpaved street, Circus parade
with elephants, Summer on Superior street showing car line, Horse and
cart in
street, Fifth Ave. West with many people, and on upper side of same,
1915 close
up of horse-drawn wagon, close up of starter’s booth, July, 1909 flood
clean up
at Lake
Ave.
And Superior street, July 1909 pan down from
Kaiserhoff building, March snow storm of 1892, people shoveling in
street, 1910
early autos, streetcars and horse carts, 1910 street repairs by Savoy
Theater. 1897
looking east on late winter day and no traffic, hillside to east from
Mesabi on
Lake
street.
Clothing on line, early autos on busy street, 1887
YMCA at 18 east Superior, hilltop view of harbor in 1904 before Aerial
Bridge,
downtown Duluth as seen from water front on long color postcard, Horse
drag on
ramp by Depot, Portman Square fountain,
Mataffa as seen from Michigan Street
damage to shore building.
O 8 # 27 -- Old farm pix,
spring on North
Shore, Smelt fishing at Lester River, gulls on lake in spring, pussy
willows in
spring, Floyd Hanson story, buffalo in winter, wildlife in forest,
blacksmith
shop in Winona, kitchen in homestead, McCormick-Deere hay mower, print
shop,
threshing crew, oxen pull hay wagon, two young farmers in corn field,
farm on
flatland, old homestead without barn, man fixes steam-powered saw in
winter,
woman in one horse shay buggy, tractor pulls hay wagon to rail cars,
threshing
operation with steam power, posed threshing crew by machinery, grain
shocks in
fields, farm family of five by house, farm on hillside in summer, farm
family
with six kids, surrey in winter, buckboard, fancy rig in town, lady in
‘90s
decorates carriage, herd of oxen and men.
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8 # 28 -- Winona County Historical Soc.
Pictures: oxen and large log load, horses and plow, old creamery and
farm
wagons, hay piled by old barn, threshing crew poses, dead cows on
hillside,
steam tractor pulls harrow, alfalfa on pitch fork, woman milking cow,
farmyard
in snow, windmill in snow, chickens in coop with layer boxes. Corn
husking in
field, hay stack with man on top, threshing crew and hay wagon,
belt-driven
threshing machine, corn cob held by man, family poses by home with
flowers,
woman’s suffrage Back in Time Players, Eastman-Johnson collection at
Depot.
Dog sled team on lake, Cranberry Lake party, ox cart trails on Red River, wolf pack and related visuals.
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8 # 29 -- Hubert Wheeler interview: Tells
of grandfather Henry Wheeler who walked
to Duluth on Military road from St. Paul, knew Merritt family in New York and said he could use their help here. Great
grandmother Merritt came next year with husband and seven boys. Sept.
1856
“Gussie” was first white child born here.
Henry was once a millionaire but
lost it in
panic of 1893 Henry’s home had first indoor plumbing in Duluth, Henry
surveyed
the route for the Dm and IR , died in 1905 when hit by a streetcar at
age 85,
had about 100,000. Tug used a whistle as
sonar to bring an injured man to the hospital in the fog., Sarah
Wheeler was a
Brewster from Mayflower family. Various
pictures of Henry and family.
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8 # 30 -- Map of original Duluth town sites. Wheeler in pix as old man, Duluth in 1870s as seen from hillside. (2) heavy snowfall among birches and
pines.
Drawings of fur post at Fond du Lak, map of French fur posts in Minnesota. Crossbill
drawing. Red squirrel drinks sap from maple tree, drinks upside down
also.
Dr. Holman at Mich. State on
mammoths, shows giant beaver, tusks used as tools, explains
extinctions,
peccary, musk oxen, whales and walrus found in Michigan, Mason-Quimby line explained. Ancient sea
life
diorama,
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tape 32 -- Karl Jaros
tells about life as forced laborer under Hitler, Milo Stillwell the teenage lumberjack is highly articulate about
logging. Coolidge guide when president spent the summer on the Brule River, Birds: pileated woodpecker
3,
O 8 33 -- Spring flowers,
kayakers, cat tails,
brownstone, UMD old campus, tow boat, Norwegian homestead cabin &
1;32:25,
paddle wheeler on Mississippi, river scenes on Mississippi, spinning
wheel, old
cemetery markers, covered wood bridge,
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-- Edna Merritt, nineteen eighteen rough box story, Hepzibah stories,
Vexjo
school, emmigrant institute, Winona County census records, Stockholm
scenes,
Umeo, Umeo restaurant, Kungsholm ( on 36), bear in back yard of Duluth
home.
Swedish restaurant , antique carpenter shop, shoemaker shop ( on 37)
O 8 36 -- Vexjo, Sweden school graduation, emigrant
research, picnic by castle,
O 8 at 38 -- Safle, Sweden research
for ancestors, Birds: gulls on
woman’s car, homestead at arches, tepees at Fort William, carpenter’s
shop,
bakery, Montreal Canoes, quill pen writing, Voyageurs, tin smith,
leached corn,
mother hen and chicks outside, frontier farm, piglets in mud, shingle
maker
frontier, Grand Portage Trail,
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-- Frontier threshing, steam tractor, Esther Luoma survivor of burns
from fires
of 1918, Spirit Mountain trails, Herb Anderson gold miner and Yukon
Adventures
( tape 41 for more of Anderson )
O 8 # 40 -- Interstate Park
pot holes, Dave
Crawford describes, canoe on St. Croix at park, Geology: Red Wing
uplift, fur
museum at Prairie du Chien, bluegill fishing on the Mississippi River,
beaver
hat market explained, Joe Rolette,
Indians trapping, fur trade items, Douseman home, Fort Crawford,
Radisson in canoe, mammoth in diorama pit, farm crops, back water
sloughs, mine
pit at Chisholm, Hull Rust mine view, rock tripe, caribou moss,
sphagnum, graffiti on Skyline
Trail, Magney Park scenes,
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8 # 41 -- Herb Anderson arctic dogsledder and
gold prospector and map, dead moose at DNR check station, sand dunes on
Park
Point, Park Pont forest trail, clam, Park Point lighthouse, grain ship
at
elevator, ore dock, aerial of lake ship, corn in crib, cave at Harmony.
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8 # 42 -- Barden’s Peak, Lester River trout fishing, corn shocks, skiing at Spirit
at Spirit Mtn.
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# 43 -- Duluth
street
cars, Wayne Olson, engine Minnetonka, train wreck in Depot, incline railway,
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8 # 44 -- Lily pads of ice, Cheri.
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8 #45 -- Stony
Point smoke frost, Two
Harbors lighthouse, cats try
to catch birds, Pioneer
TV newscaster Earl Henton interview, Northwest airlines mail plane, ice
break
up on Lake Superior.
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8 # 46 -- Northwest airline logo, dead deer
on highway, ice jewels, Hartley aircraft, Stony Point ice after storm, Lakewood
ice after storm.
O 8 # 47 -- Earth
House at Alma, homestead log house,
State capitol, dinosaurs in science museum, Lindberg plane, Split Rock
lighthouse, Redcliffe reservation, Indian covered graves, salmon in the
French
River( see 0197) , Gott.
O 8 # 48 -- All Morocco
travelogue
O 8 # 49 -- Morocco travelogue, snake charmer, Pioneer Cambridge
old
school with costumed students in 1920's
recreation.
O 8 # 50 -- Moose at Solomon
lake and off
Highway
1, 5 month old baby, mating toads lay eggs, beaver lodge off Highway 2,
ladyslippers (3), blue heron over marsh.
O 8 # 51 -- Julia Marshall
cabin, Caroline
talks about Hoover’s son, deer walking in Brule river, roses by Lake
superior,
daisies by lake shore, trout fishing on the Brule, osprey nest, boys
fishing at
Granite falls, corn and grain fields at Marshall, Camden state park,
grape
vines, Morraine in park, Minnesota gopher, cactus at blue mounds,
buffalo herd
in bluemounds, typical prairie land, buffalo drive over cliff, mammoth
tusk in
case, prairie grass types, Indians working Pipestone, Browns valley man
sign,
cloud like adam bomb, storm at Lake Traverse, Parkhurst family reunion,
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8 # 52 -- Sugar beets, Fergus Falls Moraine,
old roadster car on highway, loons in lily pads, coastguard patrol
boat, family
picnic at Brighton Beach 1988, beans loaded on ocean ship, lake ship
hatfield
in scrap yard, swimmers in Lester River, yard party in Lakewood,
hummingbirds
at feeder, chipmunk living under bricks, loons on Benson Lake,
butterflies on
Joe Pye weeds (see also tape 53) .
Old 8 # 53 -- Beaver
lodge on
Blessner Creek, blue heron flys over Blessner Creek, grouse family
along road, Moose Lake regional treatment center,
infant crawling at 7 months, waterfalls and
green water in Trappers lake, incan Superior arrives.
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8 # 54 -- Child plays with
cat, chipmunk eats seeds on log, picnic in
Jay Cook Park, ships at anchor- scenic, foggy morning at Brighton
Beach, spider
web and June berries, nightshade, Steinbrenner enters harbor, ship
Erickson
seen from Aerial Bridge, tourists throw rocks in lake.
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8 # 55 -- Mushrooms at Trappers Lake, moss
covered log, lily pads at Trappers Lake, white water lily, mossy logs
at
Trappers Lake, Gooseberry Falls in flood stage, Truelson grandchildren
speak,
moonlight over Lake Superior (3), bees on asters, Canadian ship loads
grain,
Mary Pooley recalls Margaret Banning, Scott holds large northern,
camera at
water level in moving canoe, sappling stripped of bark by moose, Ben
Boo talks
about Banning.
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8 # 56 -- Italian ship Silvana, Jay Cook
swinging bridge, Gooseberry Falls, otter in river, child’s first
birthday,
closed gentian, Lake Isabella with Scott in canoe, least chipmunks,
Scott
fishes in river, loons on Trappers Lake, beaver slaps tail, Scott
leaves shore
in canoe (3), Congdon Creek waterfalls and berries, Glen Carlson and
Snively
story, mouse on stump, racoon in backyard.
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8 # 57 -- Goldfinch on sunflower, Redskin
Lake, woodbine, sparkling water among reeds, pinesap, fallcolors,
chokecherry
berries, puffballs, touch-me-not, Scott catches northern, Marine museum
scenes,
loon close up, full moon over river, red sumac, lakeside as seen from
skyline,
busy port seen from skyline, ore docks from skyline, crow in colored
maple
leaves.
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8 # 58 -- Baptism rivermouth (2),
couple by Cascade River, fishing, hiking Cascade River, hikers with backpacks.
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8 # 59 -- Chester Creek seen from bridge,
Banning house, leaves float in stream, old train at Depot drawing,
waterfront
drawing, people in old railcar drawing, 3rd class sleeping
car
drawing, old railroad in snow storm drawing, immigrants board train
drawing,
engineer and fireman in cab drawing, passenger sailing ship drawing,
sinking
sailing ship drawing, steamer at dock in snowstorm drawing, men at
wheel of
sailing ship drawing, Mayor Snivley bust, Lincoln park waterfalls,
Enger Tower,
old circus wagon 1800's with tiger, woman spins and cards wool, stew
pot over
open fire, turkey legs on grill, fry bread in grease pot, frontier guns
etc.,
Bunnell house and artifacts- candle form butter churn pantry, girls
play piano
and violin in Bennell house, spinning wheel operated, old lady does
tatting and
makes doll clothes, young girl learning to spin, apple press operating,
Civil
War soldiers demonstrate rifles and cannon, man on high wheel bike of
1800's,
fireplace wood stacked, old threshing crew picture, old couple dance
waltz,
calliope, juggler, old farm home.
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8 # 60 -- Split Rock lighthouse and colored
leaves, beaver repairs dam, cattails, beaver dam, partridge mating
display on
log, mayor Snivley newspaper clippings, hen partridge showing
protective
coloration, partridge hen eats buds in tree, trout spawn in small
stream,
beaver pond scene from hilltop, caribou moss, snow covered white pines,
spruce
under heavy snow, snow shoe hare tracks, wolf and moose tracks, picture
of men
sawing a tree, cars and jogger in heavy snow, winter scene of birch and
spruce
with snow, cross country skiers, deer in deep snow.
O 8 # 61 -- Banning story
narration, storm on
Stony Point (3), deer running in snow storm, Tischer Creek after first
snowfall
(3), Split Rock lighthouse light shining, Rachel Martin tells about
immigrants.
O 8 # 62 -- Railroad engineer
Tom Slatterly
talks about early of Duluth Depot,
railroad engineer Ernest Heffernan, channel 8 party, Ralph Krupp and
Depot
restaurant, armco ship arrives in snow, John Hunner talks about Depot
and
drunks on Michigan street, Depot in war years talked about, bowery
described,
lumberjack honesty.
O 8 # 63 -- Rachel Martin
talks about immigrant
luggage, immigrant photos at Depot, horse pulls cutter at Esko.
O 8 # 64 -- Breaking
icicles from roof, sleighs in Lester
Park parade, sled dogs on trail, man drills hole in ice for fish house.
Hi-8 # 65
-- Hare tracks on
ground in snowy scene, Ore train moves with empty cars, Pine tree lined
country
road, Ed Hanson on CCC in Finland, medical care offered, dentist with
foot-operated drill frontier, few men needed discipline, AWOL rare,
practical
jokes not out of hand, projects worked that survive inc. forest
protection-tree
planting, Side camps not familiar, rolled boulders in river, camps
agreed ccc
were godsend, fire fighting and lookout towers, spruce grouse in winter
tree,
pan of barracks for good visuals, large pile of cut logs in winter,
lots of
loags at Isabella landing, ice fishing on Lax Lake, pretty winter
stream of
open water and sunny 1,
Hi-8 # 66
-- Crows agitating
in pines, Phil Friest on depression years,
cedar tree leaves, commercial
logging at McDougal Lake, eagles on St. Louis River 2, storm on Lake
Superior
blowing snow on highways, Spring runs out from under hill, cedar trees
on hill
top, limestone shells in rock,
trout hatchery sign, DNR fish transport truck, Trempealeu River,
National
Wildlife refuge sign at Trempelaeau, Centerville sign and village, site
of
Perrot Post, Indian Burials at Perot
Park, Caves in hill partly covered by wall,
Hi-8
68 -- Two eagles soar
over Mississippi River, eagle flys up river, red ozier in Spring, Dr.
Carol
Jefferson interview- maps of driftless, starts at Lake City, glacial
deposits
eroded, bluffs 600 feet facing north are
forested but south side is prairie, vegetative records, no pollen
records
because of lack of a lake, karst topography reason for lack of lake. 2
many
caves, lots of springs from groundwater, 3 Canfield Creek near Preston
disappeared into crack, 2 cave crickets and blind fish, 2 bog at La
Crescent
-Centerville Pine Creek and Trempeleau River were well developed acid
bogs,
bogs were once Lakes from Mississippi, tamarack-alder, blueberries,
cranberries
there, Relict species,
driftless
never totally sealed off, two stands of white cedar here, Balsam fir on
cliff
of Canfield Creek, looks for micro-climates, 20 species of boreal
plants in
white pine stand, small population of ground pines here, Pleistocene
snails in
caves, flora and fauna substantial in driftless, can tell glacial
deposits from
soil changes, balsam fir within glaciated areas, goats wont tip on
trails but
cows will, goat prairies have two month longer growing season, many ore
caves
yet to be found, caves at natural bridge Wisconsin occupied since
12,000 BC,
waterfalls and mill in Pickwick, Dorothy Krause of Veroqua on
Depression, Christmas
one gift only, orange, candy & peanuts, Coon Valley CCC camp, men
in formal
CCC pictures.
Hi-8
#69 -- CCC museum of
Wisc., man on 1915 telephone, 2 wheeled wagon, Karl Hovde and Lamont
with CCC
memorabilia, no work in depression years, got only room and board,
various CCC
activities, no loans in depression years, general comments on CCC camp
life,
chimney formation near Viroqua, Al Usnick on depression years, neighbor
boy had
very little food.
Hi-8 # 48 -- Fort
Michilimackinac, civilian life at Fort, soldiers fire cannon, Montreal
canoe,
supply room with barrels of oatmeal, butter and tobacco, interior of
old
church, thatched roof, beaver hides, gardens by fort homes, hides on
the wall,
British flag flies, wooden grave markers, brandy keg, punishment
stocks,
pictured rocks tour, beaver dam, dragonflies, bumble bees on wild roses
(2),
bear cubs in birch tree (3), evacuation after toxic spill from train,
wild
flowers at cave mouth, swallows fly into cave, tadpoles in sunlit pool,
morning
doves walk on road, duck and duckweed in pond, frontier woman at Kelly
Farm
uses washboard, frontier woman boils clothes, hangs clothing on line,
woman
picks garden peas, oxen lie in corral, veggies on windowsill (1), woman
hoeing
in field, men drink water from pump.
Hi-8 Tape A1 -- Ripe
elderberries, iris among cattails, canoeing in small river, wild
chives,
Hemlock tree, beaver in upper St. Louis River, canoeing river at dusk
(3), deer
and fawn in backyard, Otter Creek near Carlton , clouds reflected in
lake, Al
Gore visits Duluth, Potlatch mill enterance, 1910 carpenter makes
wooden bench
at Wirtinen Farm, woman spinning wool, woman in costume checks cabin
wood stove
oven, makes bed in cabin, blows out kerosine lamp, girls stop horse and
buggy,
camera view from buggy, woman shows girls how to spin and card wool,
longhorn
cow bellows, sheep in old wooden pen, girl gets water from pumphouse,
man makes
birch bark baskets, costumed woman does “Grandma’s Apron” (3), pigs in
log pen,
men mend fish nets, wooden fish trap, wooden farm tools, 1907 model
washing
machine, draft horse runs loose, little girls in costume catch stray
chickens,
hay rake, dove tailed barn, costumed woman in rocking chair, Carlton
Kiddie
Parade, little girl rides pony.
Hi-8 Tape A2 --
Birds: Saw
whet peeks from woodpecker hole, people fishing from bridge in St.
Louis River
and upriver, people in camp routine of cooking-reading-eating-relaxing,
swinging bridge with people in Jay Cooke State Park, waterfalls inJay
Cooke as
seen through green foliage, water cascading over rocks in St. Louis
River, kids
climbing on rocks next to river, flowers grow on rock outcrops, two men
launch
kayaks on St. Louis River, house next to river in Scanlon, rafters get
instructions before launching, rafts launched and floating down river,
Scenic
of Baptism River, Birds: grouse flies from roadside to perch on limb in
sunshine, valley in SE Minnesota untouched by glaciers, Insects:
Monarch
butterfly clings to twig, Mammals: fox den ( vacant) on hillside with
feathers
at entrance, plant growing out of rotting stump, ripening wild berries
on
hillside, Plants: aters growing on hillside, cave partially underwater
near
Winona, King and Queens Bluffs along Mississippi River, sandstone cliff
escarpment on Wisconsin side of River, Fish research in St. Louis River
by DNR,
nets pulled and set, species netted include: small mouth bass-black
crappie,
white suckers, catfish, redhorse, rock bass, perch, scales taken for
tests,
parasite grub on perch, crayfish, catfish vocalizes with croaking
sound,
catfish regurgitates perch, shelf fungus
mushroom on tree, pines reflected in calm water.
NEW HI-8 -30 --
Bladder wort, walking in bog, pitcher
plants,
Labrador tea, cattails in bog, tamarack,
log road, Beaver River with people at mouth, moon over Flood Bay 3,
campfire on
beach 2, doe deer and fawns by pond 2, beaver pair off Snake Trail,
moose
diggings along Hy-1 1, ant by
horsefly, snails on
dead leaves, girls on tubes at Round Lake, Tiny toad in hand, butter
and eggs
wild flowers, teal duck and ducklings, British soldiers lichens 1, pond
at
Tuscarora on the Gunflint Trail, couple set out in canoe 3, canoe
approaches at
sunrise on Loon Lake 2, power boats on Gunflint, boys leave landing in
canoes,
shelf fungus, large round leaved orchid 3, wintergreen, kestrel
fledgling calls
from tree 2, bladderwort in pond, bladderwort bladders seen from
underwater,
snail moves underwater, Wirtinen farm with JoAnn Hanson–also on tape 31)
New Hi-8
# 31 -- Archaeology
at McDougal Lake with G. Peterson, tools found, Peters explains, dugout
canoe
demo by boy, Bumblee bees on plant 2,
shiner minnows in small pond, mullen plant, ore train passes, leopard
frog in
tank, frog on log, Zentner tells why waterfowl are important, red
dragonfly,
snail and shiners in tank,.
NEW Hi 8
# 32 -- Swedish farm
at Lindstrom, MN, Swedish culture here,
buffalo grazing, little red school house at Barnum, sunfish, perch,
bullhead,
crayfish, red slider turtle in tank at fair, sailing ship rose
exteriors and on
board 2, sunlight on Brighton Beach scenic for title 3 ) new beaver
lodge and
runways, lily pads and pond lily, shore damage from tracked vehicle,
spider on
waterlily 3, bark beetle on jack pine, elderly members of First
Lutheran speak,
rain storm on Lake Superior with lightning, Two Harbors boat launch
site,
Barrens in Wisconsin with Linda and Steve, puff balls, hawk over
barrens,
NEW Hi-8 # 33 -- Mystery
Cave with forms of life seen in office
and in cave inc. cephalapod 2, lake in cave, Reeds Landing museum with
arrowheads, clamming photos, Joe Suielman private museum in Wabasha,
Cliovis
point ?, wooden grave marker for man killed by Indians 1867, metal
arrowhead
stuck in buffalo bone, depression years pay of $15.00 a month,
Whitewater
Valley elevated view, Mississippi seen from hill top, Lake Pepin with
sign of
same, Loosestrife on lake edge, waterbug boatmen on surface of Sullivan
Lake,
buckbean in flower, marsh scene, ducks swimming.
NEW Hi-8 # 34 --
Gooseberry
Falls with lost of water in fall, girl
on old log, misty Lake Superior at Tetagouch State Park, gold
leaf
particles in glass vial, lichen, mushrooms, fall colors inc. golden
tree on Lax
Lake road, spider with huge egg sac, blackbirds in flocks on the
Mississippi 1,
Spring Valley cave privately owned, sinkhole dump 3, owner explains
caves, corn
cob sign in Rochester, pumpkins in field, Frontier family ( Forts )
gathers
flowers in garden, man and dad hunt, fire flintlock, blow horn, girl
cards
wool, vegetable stand on road, tow boat 2,
NEW Hi-8 tape 35 --
Steam train
from Hinckley, girl in engine, frontier costume show, fiddler plays
Orange
Blossom Special, various mushrooms, Trapper’s lake mushrooms 2, spotted
salamander 2, mouse on grass at eye level
1, mouse crawls on log, wintergreen berries, matchstick British
soldier
lichen, red tailed hawk over Barrens 2, big bluestem, bluebird nest box
opened
with dead swallows inside, sand cherry, sharptail dancing grounds, pin
oak,
puffball smoke, caribou moss closeup, maple and jackpine mix, pearly
everlasting, pea-size clam shells in pond 2, wolf tracks in mud by
pond, carex
sedge, leech crawling off log in water, water beetles swim, beer cans
tossed in
woods, sparganium, bees on pearly everlasting, shorebird tracks, reeds
in
water, cattail head in ripe state, thistle head with seeds blowing away
2,
moose tracks again, logging truck races on dusty road, fall colors,
First
Lutheran choir.
NEW Hi-8 # 36 --
Fall color trees,
wind sound in trees, Voyageurs in
canoes on Barker’s 3, Voyageur’s sing and play instrument, launch
canoe, dead
racoon on rock, blue heron silhouette 2,
ripe corn in field, egret wades in pond 2, grebes in marsh, grebe with
minnow
2, odd plant with geometric seed head, geese come in to land at
Whitewater 3,
mallard pair close up, goose flips upside down while landing 2,
NEW Hi-8 # 37
-- Beaver dam at Isabella, warblers in
trees by pond, birches in fall at Split rock, Baptism west branch, hawk
over
forest, marshland, of f Highway 11...green 2,
wooden split rail fence in fall colors, wetland in deep forest, Canada
jays eat
from my hand,canoe couple ( Marie and Chris ) in Langley River 2, least
chipmunks feed at eye level 3, spruce
grouse on road and in forest, Christenson’s play their instruments.
Silver
Mound Indian tool site, man shows how to make tools, red squirrel eats
and
buries cedar cones 2, robin in fall forages, Roland Rodell at Silver
Mound talks about same, cave entrances,
NEW
Hi-8 # 38 --
Deer
feeds in
forest, calm St. Louis river bay, beaver pond in jay cook, birches and
pines in
scenic shot, old school with bell tower, silver mound, spear
demonstration,
copper and stone artifacts in cases, tools and weapons laying on deer
hide,
prehistoric people talked about by rollie, bones of mammoths killed by
humans
found in south east Wisconsin, spear points preceeded arrowheads,
atlatl, bows
and arrows used in Wisconsin, arrow shaft maker, copper tools in case,
scenic
valley near silver mound, corn harvester in field, sand stone face at
fountain
city, harvesting corn in MN city, soy beans in feild and in hand, black
angus
beef cattle, moving shot through corn fields, rustle of wind in corn
stalks,
angus cows again, stockton farm, man herds milk cows by pond, windmill
turning
in the wind, modern corn harvesting, Oliver Kelly farm 1994, oxen
plowing field,
pumpkins piled by house, oxen again, man paints farm house, oxen and
driver
approach camera, plow moving in furrow, farmer gets grain ready, oats
and wheat
piled by door, cat on rafter, man explain’s reason for cracks between
boards,
man talks about mouse problems, oxen taken to corral, farmer talks
about oxen
and farm labor, man oils threshing machine, horses led to treadmill,
horses
operate treadmill, good threshing scene, cat drinks from wooden bucket,
more of
threshing machine.
NEW Hi-8 # 39 fall
‘94 -- Deer
carcass eaten by Canada jays, grouse female ( 2), raven on deer
carcass, old
logging truck polluting air, oil spill near Gooseberry park.
NEW Hi-8 # 40 --
Langley river
in early fall, Sullivan lake in late fall, Tamarack in good fall color,
least
chipmunks at Christensen cabin, junco feeds with chipmunk, deer (3)
walks on
trail in fall, deer lies in grass beneath tree (2), deer feeds on dead
weeds in
fall(3), Crex meadows fall 1994, cranes and Canada geese in field,
flock of
crows, man fishing in lake at sunset (2), President’s Taylor and
Philmore,
Indian advisor Armstrong of Madeline island, frosted windows and winter
scene
(2), snow covered conifers on Lake Superior (2), knife river
destruction, Sioux
artifacts in Goodhue museum, bead work in display case, Indian village
painting
(2), Sioux pottery, Frances Densmore giant beaver skull (2) in case,
mammoth’s
in diorama in winter (3), Sioux village (2), Sioux woman chases birds
from corn
field, painting of Sioux Indian village, Indians on ice spear muskrats,
pottery
from Mississippi culture, Karins founds on bluff, Aztec mounds and
village,
tools and indian pipes, Indian woman’s deerskin dress, Indian woman and
girl by
teepee, Indian dolls, painting of Traverse des Sioux treaty, Prairie
island Indian’s
in 1902, Indian with pony by teepee, Frances Densmore picture, Prairie
Island
in 1898on the island, Santee Sioux in ceremonial dress of 1880, Indian
school
children and teacher in classroom , Indian blanket given to Doctor
Hewitt in
1907 after curing epidemic of smallpox, Stephen Long in 1819 painting,
Indian
living site painting in fall, Indian corn harvesting, spring in Indian
village,
redwing pottery business with old pictures, teepee at museum entrance,
agriculture tools of 1880's, plow and wooden hay rake, wash tubs wash
boards,
milk cans, horse teams with farmers, threshing machine picture,
pioneers pose
by house, family shocking grain (2), Winona county historical society,
Christian Drenckhahan, grain filed near redwing, grain shocks in field,
cows in
pastoral scene, cows killed by lightning laying dead on hillside, farm
family
pose in front of home, log barn with corn growing next to it, typical
frontier
home in 1910, farm home on bleak prairie, 1896 frontier home “ Shanty
on bear
creek”, threshing crew equipment picture (2), family with horses pose
by nice
home, threshing tractor and workers (2), steam powered tractor with
threshing
crew, men pitching hay, winter on old farm (2), metal wheeled tractor
pulls
cultivator, team of horses pull grain harvesting machine (3), chickens
in hen
house, farmer poses with tall corn stalk, threshing crew at lunch break
posing,
man cutting wood, woman on stool milks cow (2), picture of field of
shocked
grain, barn raising, farmers shell corn, horse and wagon by creamery,
man poses
with spotted hogs in field, woman driving one horse buggy, boy poses
with four
horses, men with tobacco leaves on farm, men threshing with horses (3),
white
water pools in winter, snow covered bird nest, bald eagle in tree by
Mississippi
in winter (2), more of knife river destruction, wolf tracks on
Hummerdings
lake, eagles sparing over Mississippi, bird wing impressions in snow,
girl at
Zoo Aquarium age 6, Mammals: weasel in ermine, brook trout, red fox in
snow
covered log den (2), cougar in sunlight in pen, piranha in tank (3),
catfish
and bullheads in tank, bull snake, toucan, leaf cutter ants.
Hi-8 # 41 -- Deer
feeding in
Jay Cooke Park- winter, backlit deer feeding on dry weeds (3), 1000
foot locker
at ore docks, girls in gymnastic class, binational meeting in Ashland
1994,
Chief Buffalo’s great granddaughter Linda Bristol, picture of Chief
Buffalo,
Chief Buffalo and Armstrong drawing, port wing fishing boats, drawing
of Indian
mining on Lake Superior, Langley River under snow, pretty winter scene
on
Sullivan Lake (3), scenic spring river in early spring, scenic snow
covered
trees off highway 11 (2), snowflakes sparkle in sun (2), snow-capped
cattails
in sun(1), ice covered trees under blue sky (2), red squirrel in sun by
feeder,
Thanksgiving in home, Gooseberry Falls in early spring ice, snowstorm
over
river (2), scenic conifer trees good for title, junk cars and pollution
off
highway 210, luna moth on branch, underwater scene of egg mass and
snails, toad
on shore, girls in inner tubes, girl fishing, squirrel on log at
Lakewood
house, waterfalls at Fall River (2), fools gold in Fall River,
Columbines on
ravine (2), tree canopy over road at Creamers, red squirrel pregnant
eats
seeds, kids on rocks at Gooseberry, garden on rock pile in Carlton,
turkey hens
and chicks eat in grass, fawn suckles from mother (3), young rabbit in
leaves,
spotted fawn, buck deer with antlers in velvet.
Tape 42 -- Crex
Meadows in
fall 1994, Canada geese and cranes feeding and flying, grebe attacks
goose (3),
shovel point tin the afternoon, first snow of fall by pond, gunshot
damage to
sign, snow covered white pine stumps (2), snow buntings, chikadees
feeding
close up (2), men in canoe on fall day on sand River, fox trap
uncovered, John
Manty speaks on zero discharge, Canadian biologist
Jake Vanderwall talks about exotics, Linda
Bristol talks about Chief Buffalo and early Indian life.
Tape 43 -- Spring
1995,
siskins and other birds on snowy Christmas tree, gray squirrel in heavy
snow, little girl says she understands
bird talk, wolf tracks in snow in woods, alder shrub shredded by deer,
pond
snail on weed, shelf fungus on dead tree, spring flowers including
bloodroot,
marsh marigolds, stumps next to forest,
ground squirrel pops out of hole, blandings turtle, muskrat chews on
weed,
goose and goslings swim from shore, blackbird sings from cattail,
varios scenes
of geese ducks and blackbirds, little girl in ballet class spring 1995,
Amish
plows with horse team, heron fishing as seen through trees, gray
squirrel eats
mushroom, wild tom turkey, mailbox made to look like loon, barges go
through
locks men working on same, killdeer in grass, vultures over whitewater,
blackbird on weeds with good sound, pelicans fly to river to feed (2),
egret
fishes in river - good color, black bird singing in tree (1), goose
family
enters water (3), egret fishes catches and eats frog (2), old family
farm in
stockton valley, cattle feed near creek, Garvin brook in park, blossoms
on tree
in park (3), Norwegian homestead cabin in arches (3), graves at
homestead,
rusting farm machinery, marsh marigolds next to little stream (2),
windmill and
sheds, bloodroot blossoms, blue violets, grackle eating (2), cows graze
on
hillside on spring green, farmer on tractor preparing for planting,
Amish farmer
plows with horses.
TAPE A-8 Hi-8 Fall
of 1992 -- ENVIRONMENT; Meadowlands High School
students study St.
Louis River on 10/7/92
,scene from bridge looking down on kids by water. Kids getting into
waders,
Group walks along shore...safety ropes on students., Oranges put into water for flow measurements.
Thermometer held
in water by student in waders. Two students and teacher check sample
for
sediment, Students come out of river ..tied with rope for safe return.., Student takes net for samples.,
Student, sitting on rock, reads temp., Teacher, Chris Wyrun, asks about
water
odor, color, Students examine net for macro invertibrates, Student (Kelly) smells the
water., Sample cu...fishy smell says student , sediment ,Teacher
records data on
sheet., girl pours sample into container labeled "waste", Teacher
speaks about project..."Idea is..people are interested in River" ,
Says there's lot of scientific data of value...
HIGH
8 TAPE 3D -- Girls at Gdynia,
Poland School read English
books, Kids play hop scotch and gumma outside,Kids playa kind of tag
game in
circle, Two play badminton, Girl swings knotted rope, kids jump out of
the way.
The game is called "rats". Boys kick soccer ball, Girls run a foot
race, Sign on school about night classes in English, Flowers in large
pot on
school yard. We get food at Gdynia
train station..Pizza sign various kinds of ice cream on sign, Edie
helps couple
with tickets...pass invalid. Little girl named Carmen says "yes,
yes." , Shops in Gdansk,
poland
on amber street...old city part.
Amber shop
displays...more architecture. Old ruins..walls..on waterfront. Boats,
Ornate
sign..Polish bird symbol in gold. Statue of Neptune..fountain..Gdansk.
Mercury statue...ornate bas relief, Buildings with multiple window
combinations. General street scenes. Restaurant signs..3 chickens on a
spit,
Kids in classtroom give their names .Art work, Outdoor school activity.
Scenes
from train..factories, etc., Lush, green
countryside...pastures, streams, Hotel La Peruse in Nice, France
Beach as seen from hotel window. Frontier:
steam engine pulls passenger train into old depot, Oiler
services
engine, engine under water spout, engine idles, conductors calls “ all
aboard”,
bell rings, chugging while leaving
station. Draft horses stand across from print shop. Old print shop,
wooden
sidewalks, old wagon and outhouse, Woman
plays dulcimer, Cider
mill, Old wagon and outhouse, Inside 1800s home...living room, desk,
stove,
Woman turns crank on washer...flour cabinet.,Wooden sidewalks..pan to
other old
buildings, Men close wooden gates by tracks.
TAPE
8
A # 3 --
Finnish
woman,
relative of Ilmi Forsman who went to Karelia, USSR,
to work for a Communist world, remembers recruiting efforts by
Communists in NE Minnesota in 1930s.
TAPE
A-4 Hi-8 -- High school students
do a census of
invertebrates of St. Louis River using nets to locate mayfly nymphs,
show river
bottom life captured in this environmental studies class, clean water
in
unrelated stream, man fishing from shore, bubbles rise from water and
may be
methane, dragonfly nymph in hand close up 3, men in kayaks paddle down
river,
angler casts into river, abandoned farm near Isabella, sunset over Lake
Superior as seen from South Shore near Superior 2, camp fire on beach,
simulation of primitive people near bonfire in night scene, man
sharpens wooden
speak point, couple lit by firelight, Birds: Canada geese near shore 2,
scenic
of sun reflecting among reeds, bumblebee
feeds on clover 1, Fish: Sturgeon research project of MN DNR
whaler-type
research boat launched, John Lindgren and Pete Ongstad lift nets,
sucker
removed, sturgeon taken from net measured, one 30 inches, nose checked
for
electronic tag, fins clipped, deformed fins on sturgeon, project
explained by
John Lindgren, northern and walleyes in net, Birds: osprey in tree.
TAPE A-4 --
RUSSIA–Petrosavodsk
. Visit to public school: art class with students painting, classroom
dispaly “
Duluth-Our Sister City”, math class for seven year olds, craft class
and kids
do drama, class in Russian, kids question us in English, sing “ Jingle
Bells in
English and Alphabet song, we give out fruit to kids, visit to home
where with
children whose mother, a doctor, died of radiation while working with
victims
of radiation leakage from nuclear plant disaster, people in street
market buy
eggs, abacus used in store, graves in old church yard, we are refused
admission
to Russian church, statue of Peter the First, cemetery service with
people
chanting, Environmental: pollution in
roadside pull off with ramp for draining oil that goes onto
ground,
trash dumped in forest, St, Petersburg
street scenes, potholes on terrible streets,
POLAND: Warsaw- grafitti signs: “ Priests-go
to the moon” and “ Communism: go away.”, sign for “Mat Donald fast
food.”,
outdoor café, buildings with just two windows and guide
explains, tavern sign:
It’s not my fault.”, ornate building facades, Tiny Polish Fiat 1954
car,
flowers and gondala on pretty lake, Chopan’s Museum, horse used by man
to plow,
old world hay stacks on poles, environment: people hug trees in Polish
forest,
grocery store, swans at waterfront resort city of Sopot, colored dog
houses in
animal shelter, exterior of Grand Hotel in Sopot,
TAPE A-5 Hi- 8 Fall
of 1992 --
Mirror calm Stoney River reflects clouds in scenic, Tree: aspen and
birch
reflect in Redskin Lake near Isabella, Birds: Loons on Redskin Lake with glittering effects on water as birds
move about
2.
Scenic: Moon on calm Lake
Superior at SplitRock State Park, DNR
fisheries worker John Lindgren shows ruffe, Insects: whitefaced hornets
enter
and exit paper nest attached to cabin, Scenics: fall colors reflected
in calm
St. Louis River delta, sumac bushes of red and green in Jay Cooke Park,
tree
types in Jay Cooke Park in sunnyweather, Mississippi River tow boat and
barge
near Fort Snelling, Scenics: fall colors on various trees at Junction
of
Highway one and Lax Lake Road...good close ups 2, Plants: false soloman
seal
and pussy toes, Little earth snake on weathered barn wood 2, ripe choke
cherries seen against weathered barn 2, Scenic: trees in color
reflected in
Blessner Creek 1, tiny mushrooms on dead log, lichen and shelf fungus
on fallen
log, Baptism River in high water at Crosby State Park, Scenic: fall
colors in
forest in Jay Cooke State Park, hollow log, aspen trees form canopy,
backlit
cattails 2, shelf fungus on beaver-felled stump, erosion problems in
Jay Cooke
Park, Beaver dam in Blessner Creek with orange reflections in water 2,
Pioneer farm scenes: sheep graze in
field,
old barns and sheds, wooden water pump where costumed woman picks up
wood water
pails, corral with crude wooden fence and straw canopy roof, farmer
leads calf
on rope, man prepares sorgum for press, farm wife in frontier kitchen
by wood
fired cook stove , slices potatoes into fry pan, uses butter churn, CU
of fry
pan containing potatoes with onions, shows turnips and rutabagas, woman
shows
kitchen cabinets, utensils, 1890s costumed woman in garden and picks
red
peppers and talks about same, watermelons, orange gourd, small
tomatoes, onions
dry on wall of crude utility building
attached to house, Birds: trees full of blackbirds ready to migrate,
sandstone
cliffs, FISH: Census of fish in Lake Pepin by DNR personnel Al Stevens
and Dale
Solga go out to check nets, many clam shells on shore and in water, men
do
“work up” on fish and collect scales on sauger, silver chubs, white or
striped
bass, channel catfish, yellow perch.
Tape A-6 High 8 --
Fish research on Mississippi ( continued
from tape 5 ) quillback fish shown and explained by Stevens, silver
redhorse,
white bass, white sucker, gizzard shad, sauger, mooneye, otolith stones
removed
from sheephead fish, fifteen pound carp and small shad in net, Stevens
shows
American eel, gar, skipjacks, clams, freshwater
lamprey mounted paddle fish, Mammals: buffalo graze infield,
trees of SE
Minnesota explained by DNR forester Kathy Kruger and talks about jack
pine,
scotch pine, red cedar, green ash, aspen, cottonwoods, basswood,
valuable black
walnut, river birch, black cherry, willow, ironwood, uses of wood
types,
hickory nuts on tree, green walnuts on tree and on ground, elm leaves,
shagbark
hickory, walnut tree trunk, black walnut held in hand, trees inwater of
Mississippi, towboat and barges on river, Birds: nest cavity in dead
tree, lumber
yards in Kellogg, tree types on Mississippi Valley hills with some in
color,
burr oak and acorn cups, aspens, boxelder, tree types in Jay Cooke
Park,
Mammals: bear crosses railroad tracks, steam train approaches with good
sound,
second approach from new location, train pulls into Two Harbors
station,
firemen throws coal in fire box, man greases engine, steam ejected,
little boy
dressed like an engineer, grease can used, elevated view of steam train
approaching and seen from location next to bridge over Knife River,
Fish: weir
in Knife River, mouth of Knife River, Scenic: island at Split Rock seen
through
foliage, man fishes from shore at French River, Mammals: chipmunk on
downed
birch and on fire grill and on moose antler, ripe mountain ash berries,
sun reflects
on Lake Superior with kids on shore and trees in fall colors, trail
through
stand of birches in early fall color, back lit yellow leaves in
contrast with
pine color, damaged birch stripped of bark, Split Rock Lighthouse
scenes,
backlit maple leaves.
TAPE
A-7 High 8 -- Logging room of Buzz
Ryan at Duluth Depot,
Lumberjack portrait, Lumberjack (actor) talks about lumberjacks , Kids
look
over displays in logging room, Paper making demonstration, Branding
hammer used
to leave mark in log demo, Fire starting materials made in paper cups,
Logging
memorabilia in case display, Stamps for logging company brands pressed
on
paper,