Statehood celebration in Anchorage, 1958

This home movie contains scenes from celebrations in Anchorage, Alaska, following Congressional approval of the Alaska Statehood Act on July 7, 1958. Scenes include preparation for a large bonfire, Anchorage businesses and traffic, KENI-TV cameras, groups of Scouts, a large United States flag, a hand-drawn sign promoting statehood, boys selling newspapers with the headline "We're In," a family posing with a newspaper proclaiming "Statehood," people on horseback, Shriners, girls and flowers, women twirling flags and batons, and crowds gathering around a giant bonfire as it is set ablaze (Color/Silent/16mm film).
This is a clip from AAF-23009 of the Bruce and Sylvia Keller 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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