Title from accompanying notes. "Camp 2. Accident at rest stop just below Camp 2. The accident was actually a snow covered crevasse. Pepi, Shige, and Nobu were at the rest stop when the snow bridge collapsed, sending them into the crevasse....
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Moving up Karstens Ridge to 15,450ft camp. This cornice is the site of the May 1954 Thayer accident. My diary entry for 3 July incorrectly identifies this accident as occuring...
Title from accompanying notes. "28 March. Bamboo, Pepi, Hat & Hiro enjoying the accident. Bus not very fast, so I had it floored all the time. Unfortunately, I took a corner too fast and we ended up like this." A Volkswagen bus overturned onto...
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,...
Title taken from verso. View of truck accident on hill at Tolovana River during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska, with man standing at left of truck. March 1975. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10...
Caption: Just back of the village, on the side of Cape Mountain there are hundreds of pre-historic pits made of hewn granite stones. These pits are six feet long four wide and four deep. The stone facing the sea...
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...
Ms. (blueprint copy). Shows location of crash of C.B. Eielson and E.E. Borland with locations of individual pieces of wreckage. "Diagram of the accident executed on the spot, during the excavation, from 5 to 22 February, 1930, by student of the...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Meiji University expedition tent just below summit (left here by the Japanese team on May 5, 1960 - same month as the John Day, Pete Schoening, Jim & Lou Whittaker accident)."
Title by cataloguer. "Dr. Bunnell, John J. Kowalak photographer, c/o University of Alaska, College, Alaska 1944." According to Terrance Cole, who has describes this image in his 1994 book 'The Cornerstone of College Hill,' the crash had...
Title taken from text. A view of Delta from bluff. Album caption: The work to and including the station was done a year later; 1913. Owing to an accident the films showing new fixtures and work were lost.
Title from accompanying note. "Cookrey(?) says this is Eielson. I have to concur. Compare the face with the Loftus picture with Eielson in the cockpit - they appear to be the same or that picture is misidentified.
Title from accompanying notes. "Hiro, Pepi, Hat, & Bamboo. VWs are great though. Rolled it back up on its wheels, repacked it, and drove off. No damage except loss of the driver's outside rear view mirror." A Volkswagen minibus after an...
Title from verso. "Tuning up the "Detroiter". This enormous plane has three engines. The [propeller] in the picture [left engine] is the one which struck and killed Palmer Hutchinson. Copies from Reed's."
Title from accompanying notes. "Took a corner too fast. Rolled the bus back up, repacked it, and drove away." Repacking the van after an accident on the Alcan. Men are looking at the van and some of its contents, some bags are still on the...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.