Title taken from verso. Relief party with dog team taking part in search for Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald's attachment lost in Yukon Territory, Canada, working with Royal Canadian Mounted Police. One of men pictured: J. G. Fyfe. Also from verso:...
Airplanes used in search for wreckage from final flight of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, Siberia. From verso: "Plane headquarters near the Nauuk - 90 miles from the wreck." 1930. Original photograph size: 3 1/8" x 5 1/4".
Russian men who took part in search for the downed airplane of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, Siberia. From verso: "Russians who aided in search." 1930. Original photograph size: 3 1/8" x 5 1/4".
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 26 seconds, MPG-1 format. One of the campers suffered burns to his feet when his sleeping bag caught fire one morning. Search and rescue was...
Title from verso. Image shows members of the Lindley-Liek Expedition that made the first successful ascent of both peaks of Mount McKinley in 1932. The men are shown looking for the body of Allen Carpe, who also climbed Mount McKinley in 1932...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Rescue workers comb through a demolished home in the Turnagain area following the Alaska Earthquake 3/27/64". Additional notes read: "HQ AAC -- ROUND THE CLOCK SEARCH -- Shortly after the devastating God...
View of a person in a rescue basket being hoisted up to a U.S. Air Force helicopter. Crewmen can be seen operating the hoist from the hatch of the helicopter. From verso: "That others may live - An H-21 helicopter of the 5017th Operations Sq....
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...
Earl and Natalie Norris talk about learning about sled dogs and moving to Alaska, selling and donating dogs to search and rescue, Natalie's arrival in Alaska, meeting Earl, the use of Natalie's dogs during World War II for northern latitude search...
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.
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Ms. In ink on draft vellum. Selective relief shown by contours. Shows tracks of voyage of the Corwin in 1881. Outline color. Attributed to an officer of the Corwin's crew. Shows the tracks of the Corwin's voyages in 1881 in its explorations of the...
Photograph with a press release included which reads: Case Of The Missing Watercolor--Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, right, presents to Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) the reproduction of a painting depicting the transfer of Russian...
Map annotated by George Hubert Wilkins with flight paths and notes for expeditions including the 1927 Stinson biplane mishap that forced Wilkins and Eielson to walk across the ice to Beechey Point, the Wilkins-Eielson 1928 route, the Wilkins Flying...
(5:29 min.) (11 of 12) Prisoners Few prisoners taken--Strip search at a distance--sent prisoner back to rear--had problems because G.I.'s wanted to kill him
Relief shown pictorially. Outline color. Azimuthal projection, North Pole. Shows Hudson Bay east to Bering Strait; western arctic labeled "Parts Unknown." Includes notes regarding the path of the sun and stars, as well as the search, by...
Relief shown pictorially. Azimuthal projection, North Pole. Shows Hudson Bay east to Bering Strait; western arctic labeled "Parts Unknown." Includes notes regarding the path of the sun and stars, as well as the search, by Frobisher and Davis,...
"Title taken from caption. "9256 -- (14) There were a goodly number of robust young fellows who undertook this journey to and through the valley of the Yukon in search of the royal metal fully prepared to overcome all difficulties and to get...