Aerial view of Merrill Field and airport at Anchorage, Alaska, with airplanes on either side of runway and control tower in foreground. Aug. 1970. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
Sign above door reads "Hotel Pihl, Sitka Hot Spring." Pihl was an early day Sitka saloon owner and bootlegger. (per Joe Ashby, 1988) George Thornton Emmons is man on left (per Jerry Dzugan 5/4/05), and Merrill on right. (verso).]
Title taken partially from verso: "Freak wind accident in front of Morrison Knudsen dining hall. Merrill Field. 1943-1944." View of flipped small plane leaning partially on the side of the Morrison Knudsen dining hall building at Merrill Field,...
View of Merrill Field, Anchorage, Alaska, with buildings along the airfield and Mt. Susitna in background. From verso: "Merrill (Air) Field, Anchorage, Alaska. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." 1931. Photographer: Hewitt's Photo Shop....
Father and son Noel and Merrill Wien stand in front of Wien Air Alaska Cessna 185, possibly in Fairbanks, Alaska. From information with photo: "Noel Wien, noted for his contributions to Alaska's aviation history over the past years, stands with his...
Merrill, holding a shotgun, leans against the corner of a log cabin [belonging to Pihl, an early-day Sitka saloon owner]; wild fowl and other game hangs along one end of cabin
26 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Dickson Collection". Film shows the Star Airlines fleet lined up at Merrill Field, a person in walking in the background. The film clip is too dark to see the N-Numbers.
13 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection (Alaska Review #17,1978)". Film shows planes landing at Merrill Field in Anchorage and a woman sitting the air traffic control tower.
52 second, black & white/silent, film clip of people and airplanes at Merrill Field.
Greg Herrick provided the following information about the biplane with people standing in front (tail number NV 977Y) Acquired by Harold Gillam for use...
Title taken from caption. This greeting card depicts a large ski plane on the ground and an inset portrait of a young man on the upper-left corner. Inscriptions read: "Season's greetings, Madison A. Moore". Additional writing on the back of...
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "Russ Merrill? Alaskan Airways Hert Larson Siberia? Reproduced by J. Lardy." An outdoor portrait of a man dressed in a heavy fur coat, white gloves, and fur-rimmed goggles. He is standing in front of an aircraft...
View of airplanes at Merrill Field in Anchorage, Alaska, with buildings in background. Signs on buildings in background read: "Equipment Services [?]" and "Cafe." Printing on airplanes reads: "N35450," "N1505C," and "N77233." Photograph type: 35 mm...
12 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection (Alaska Review #17, 1978)". Film shows a Cessna 185 landing at Merrill Field in Anchorage.
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
View of a damaged building, tentatively identified as the Alaska Sales and Service building, in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Seen in the distance, center, is the control tower at Merrill Field airport.