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Golden mountain Mary Bong, 1880-1958

Title
Golden mountain [videorecording] : Mary Bong, 1880-1958 / Great Plains National Instructional Television Library.
Publication
Lincoln, NE : GPN Video, c1995.

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C.1Moving imageBy appointment only VTH 5021 G C.1 C.1Performing Arts Research Collections - Reserve Film and Video

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Additional Authors
  • Brown, Blair.
  • Great Plains National Instructional Television Library.
Description
1 videocassette (17 min., 18 sec.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences; 1/2 in.
Summary
Tells the story of Mary Bong, the first documented Chinese woman in Sitka, Alaska, through journal entries, dramatization, archival footage and vintage photographs. May Bong was a midwife to a tribe of Native Americans in Sitka, was a fisherwoman and was the matron of the federal jail in Sitka. Also discusses women in the 1898 gold rush in Alaska.
Series Statement
Nobody's girls,: five women of the West
Alternative Title
Mary Bong, 1880-1958
Subject
  • Bong, Mary, 1880-1958
  • Chinese American women > Alaska > Biography
  • Women > Alaska > History
  • Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska
  • Women pioneers > Alaska > Biography
  • Documentary films
  • Alaska > History > 1867-1959
  • Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Gold discoveries
Credits (note)
  • Narrator, Blair Brown.
System Details (note)
  • VHS.
OCLC
38117794
Title
Golden mountain [videorecording] : Mary Bong, 1880-1958 / Great Plains National Instructional Television Library.
Imprint
Lincoln, NE : GPN Video, c1995.
Series
Nobody's girls,: five women of the West
System Details
VHS.
Credits
Narrator, Blair Brown.
Added Author
Brown, Blair.
Great Plains National Instructional Television Library.
Branch Call Number
VTH 5021 G
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