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Collection Name	Robert Reeve Photograph Collection
Identifier	UAF-1993-183-CO
Title	Rober Reeve Photograph Collection
Description	Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944. The following is the text on pages 1 and 2 of the album: "High country. A pictorial record of the U.S. Army Air Corps Expedition to the Mt. McKinley region of Alaska. 1944." The purpose of this book is to show the effort made by members of the expedition to recover nineteen bodies from the ill-fated C-47 of the ATC which left Elmendorf Field for Fairbanks on a routine flight. The plane crashed into an unnamed 11,400-foot mountain in the Alaska range.
Creator	Reeve, Michael
Subject.TGM	Airplanes Aircraft accidents Camping Camps Expeditions & surveys Equipment Glaciers Mountains Mountaineering Men Snow Tents
Personal Name	Dillman, Allen Ford, James A. Gale, James E. Morris, George Greany, John M. Pearson, Grant Ivanoff, Karl M. Morrison, John F. Peracca, Americo R. Skarland, Ivar Stalker, Jacob A. Washburn, Bradford, 1910-2007
Corporate Name	United States. Army. Air Corps
Location	Alaska Range (Alaska) Brooks Glacier (Alaska) Cache Creek (Denali Borough, Alaska) Deception, Mount (Alaska) Denali National Park and Preserve (Alaska) Elmendorf Air Force Base (Alaska) Gunsight Pass (Alaska) McGonagall Pass (Alaska) McKinley, Mount (Alaska) McKinley River (Alaska) Mount Brooks (Alaska) Muldrow Glacier (Alaska) Toklat River (Alaska) Tripyramid, Mount (Alaska) Wonder Lake (Denali Borough, Alaska)
Region	Interior Alaska Southcentral Alaska
Time Period	1939 to 1959
Date.original	1944;
Type	Collection Image (Photographs) Image (Portrait photographs) Image (Night photographs)
Ordering & Use	For information on ordering and using this material: http://library.uaf.edu/orger-photos
Holding Institution	Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu--(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808
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Collection Name	Robert Reeve photograph collection
Identifier	UAF-1993-183-65
Title	After a trail had been marked, the snow tractor, which was the first piece of mechanized equipment ever to travel up [McGonagall] Pass, was loaded with supplies to establish camp three, seven miles east on the glacier.
Description	Title from finding aid : "After a trail had been marked, the snow tractor, which was the first piece of mechanized equipment ever to travel up McGonnigle [McGonagall] Pass, was loaded with supplies to establish camp three, seven miles east on the glacier." Photo shows snow tractor (a continuous track vehicle) at camp with men in the process of loading supplies, with snow covered mountains in the background.
Subject.TGM	Men Snow Mountains Glaciers Passes (Landforms) Camps Shipping Tractors Tracklaying vehicles Tents
Location	Denali National Park and Preserve (Alaska) McGonagall Pass (Alaska) Muldrow Glacier (Alaska)
Region	Interior Alaska
Time Period	1939 to 1959
Date.original	1944
Type	Image (Photographs)
Ordering & Use	For information on ordering and using this material: http://library.uaf.edu/order-photos
Holding Institution	Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.

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