The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Hunters pose with a wide variety of game after the second annual hunt in Seward, Alaska. The following men appear in the photograph: Front row from left to right: Elgin Vaughan, George Sexton, Claude Matson, Frank Cotter, Anton Eide, W. R....
Title taken from caption. A large group of Seward, Alaska men pose for a portrait with their hunting trophies. Back row from left to right: Elgin Vaughan, George Sexton, Claude Matson, Frank Cotter, Anton Eide, W.R. McDonald, Herbert Tozier, Sam...
Title taken from back. "The science club was organized in the fall of 1934 by students and faculty from chemistry, home economics, agriculture, and general science. From left to right back row: instructor Roland Snodgrass, Leo Saarela, Elinor...
Nine men pose with Seattle No. 2 banner of Yukon Order of Pioneers; George Carmack sits left, next to banner; George Snow sits on immediate right of banner
Title taken from verso. Group photo of Anchorage City Council members in Anchorage, Alaska, with map of Anchorage on wall at right. Names on board at left read: "Mayor Sharrock; Joseph Yesneski; Frank Feeman, Jr.; E.N. Courtney; C.A. Hosteller;...
Interior view of Russian Orthodox Church looking at altar, St. George, Alaska. From verso: "Church of St. George, St. George Island, Alaska. 1986. Photographer: Barbara Sweetland Smith. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Cover: "Scrap-book, belonged to George Kostrometinoff ('Father Sergius') who was in the employ of the Russian gov't. and also the United States gov't.in the early days."
Ms., mounted on rice paper. Attributed to, and with numerous annotations by, H.E. Nichols. Tracing to be placed over another chart to provide additional information. With note, and signed, by George Davidson, Sept. 24 1890.
Title from text on verso of postcard. Image shows a man standing on a hillside below a forest. Photo identified by collection donor as formerly belonging to George Lockyear. Man in the photo may be George Lockyear. George Lockyear...
Two horses haul a hay wagon, one man rides and two other are nearby. Another horse is in the background. These three horses are all the horses in Fort Yukon at this time. The men are identified as Dinny O'Brien, George Busoks and George...
(3:28 min.) (13 of 28) 13. Whitehorse and Fairbanks
George stayed awhile in Seattle and saw Boeing in full wartime production. Eighteen to twenty B-17's a day were produced. He went to Whitehorse, YT. Bill Lavery was a pilot for Morrison...
(5:01 min.) (22 of 28) 22. Flying in western Alaska
George still needed his multi-engine rating, couldn't borrow the company plane. So he quit Pan Am and started flying along the Kuskokwim for Northern Consolidated. Towns in the western...
(6:47 min) (24 of 28) 24. DC-3 training
George met a Pan Am Clipper pilot who set him up for training at LaGuardia Airport. He was leasing a Pan Am DC-3 but the corporate heads cancelled the deal. Bill Conrad was the instructor George went...
(3:09 min.) (27 of 28) 27. Pilot for Governor Egan George used to fly Gov. Egan back and forth to Juneau. Egan liked George's harmonica version of "Springtime in the Rockies". George then flew the Seattle run, which he had always wanted to...
"Eskimo Scouts received awards Saturday from Alaska Governor William A. Egan (left). Gov. Egan prepares to present the Eisenhower trophy for the state's most outstanding National Guard unit to Sgt. George Whitman, Mekoryuk, representing Co. B, 2nd...
A list of 1950 graduates of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, from the commencement program. Richard Ted Blue; Nickolai Eidem; Ethel Irene Cornue; Dale Malcolm Dahl; Suzanne S Hall; Milton H Lightwood Jr; Charles V Lucier; Mary Ann K S McCall;...