Theodore R. Merrell photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1958-1990s.

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Theodore R. Merrell photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1958-1990s.

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The slides document Ted Merrell's travels throughout Alaska as a field project leader and fishery research administrator, including Bristol Bay, Prince William Sound, Yakutat, the Yukon River, Southeast Alaska towns and field camps, Trans-Alaska pipeline construction and planning, Cordova, Valdez, Aleutian Islands, Katmai, and the effects of underground nuclear weapons tests on Amchitka Island. As he managed the laboratory and field studies of effects of oil and clear-cut logging on fish and habitat, he documented the work and places. Juneau images include events such as the Fourth of July Statehood parade in 1959, the ruins of the Alaska-Juneau Mine fire, waterfront, Juneau Cold Storage, ferry scenes, buildings, street scenes, etc. The collection includes photographs of field work on Amchitka Island, and a slide-show with accompanying text on the subject of nuclear weapons testing and the effect those tests have had in the environment of Amchitka Island, titled: "Nuclear weapons tests and the environment of Amchitka Island." Box four contains later research notes and information about the cumulative impacts of nuclear testing on Amchitka Island, detonation dates, Amchitka and the Bomb. Two professionally produced motion pictures (16 mm sound) tell the Atomic Energy Commission's public relations story; these were used by Merrell in school programs. These are titled: "The Amchitka Program" and "Post-Cannikin shoreline surveys: Bering Sea coastline, Pacific Ocean coastline."

4 boxes (3668 col. slides, 130-150 b&w photos., 2 reels 16 mm. film, published studies & correpsondence)

Alaska State Library

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Alaska State Library

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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

Merrell, Theodore R.

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Theodore Merrell, a biologist for Fish and Wildlife, contributed a previous research and photo collection on the subject of the effects of nuclear testing on Amchitka and surrounding islands. From the description of Theodore R. Merrell photograph collection, 1969 DDT Arctic survey [graphic]. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 294913290 Theodore Reed Merrell, Jr., (Ted) was born in Superior, Wisconsin on June 12, 1923. He attended St. Olaf College until 1943, when he...