Guide to the Chuck Jarecki videos
1959
An Alaska Historical Society collection
Collection number: HMC-1473-AHS.
Creator: Jarecki, Charles “Chuck.”
Title: Chuck Jarecki videos.
Date: 1959.
Volume of collection: 0.02 cubic feet and 2.97 GB.
Language of materials: Collection materials are entirely in English.
Collection summary: Videos taken on a road trip through the Yukon to Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Biographical note:
In 1959, Charles “Chuck” Jarecki was in college and his sister had recently graduated high school in Erie, Pennsylvania. They spent their summer driving Chuck’s truck from Erie to San Diego, then to Montana, and then through Canada to ultimately visit Fairbanks and Anchorage in Alaska. Chuck hitch-hiked home after selling his truck, and his sister flew home. Chuck went on to become a well-known rancher and pilot in Montana.
Collection description:
This collection contains three DVD copies of films Chuck Jarecki made on a 16mm video camera as he and his sister drove through the Yukon and Alaska. The first DVD depicts the Teslin Lake area, the Yukon ferry at Carmacks, Dawson City, the Big Delta area, Creamer’s Dairy in Fairbanks, the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, and a flight to and landing in Utqiagvik (Barrow at the time), dog mushing, and walrus butchering. Disk 2 depicts a Fairbanks gold dredge, Denali National Park (Mount McKinley National Park at the time), the Matanuska Glacier, Cook Inlet, the road to Homer, a Russian Orthodox cemetery, and a garden. Disk 3 depicts a farm in the Matanuska Valley, a train ride to Fairbanks, gold panning at May Creek near McCarthy, a C-46 landing at May Creek to pick up sacks of ore concentrate, McCarthy, a cemetery, a small rail car, and the flight back to Anchorage on Cordova Airlines.
Arrangement: This collection is in the original order in which arrived at the Archives.
Digitized copies: This collection has been digitized. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact Archives and Special Collections.
Rights note: The Alaska Historical Society holds copyright to this collection and has given the Archives authority to grant use permissions.
Preferred citation: Chuck Jarecki videos, Alaska Historical Society collections, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.
Related materials: For more collections relating to tourism, please see the “Tourism in Alaska” topic guide.
Acquisition note: This collection was donated to the Alaska Historical Society in 2016 by Chuck Jarecki. The Historical Society retains ownership of the collection and placed it on deposit in Archives and Special Collections in 2017.
Processing information: This collection was described by Becky Butler Gallegos in 2024.
Location of originals: Chuck Jarecki holds the original films.