Title taken from verso. Radio operator Bob Healy working at radio station in Platinum, Alaska. Building also serves as telegraph office and weather station. Photo negative number 1450-90-12. 1950's? Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph...
Title taken from verso. Dick Rand in front of KENI radio station microphone with script in Anchorage, Alaska. 1954? Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 5" x 4 1/8".
From verso: "Miss Miriam Dickey and Captain Lathrop. Miss Dickey is Secretary-Treasurer of the Midnight Sun Broadcasting Company, and is Capt's "right hand man" in all his other widespread enterprises. It was her interest in radio and its...
Title from verso Major General Jaroslov T. Folda, U.S. Army, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, at microphone during first radio broadcast; on left is Al Varns, chief, Armed Forces Radio Stations Signal Corps Photo 632635 (Sp-4 Randy K....
Title taken from verso. KFQD radio station advertisement display for Camel cigarettes in Anchorage, Alaska, with cigarette packages and cartons, microphone, and signs. Signs read: "KFQD CBS presents" and "CBS KFQD." Printing on boxes reads: "Camel...
Caption: What Happens When A Territory Becomes A State? - In a radio interview with Washington correspondent Stuart Finley, offical representatives of the new country of Ghana and the 49th state of the United States discuss the similaritites and...
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...
Title taken from verso. Bill "Red" Murray, of First National Bank of Anchorage, standing in front of KENI radio station microphone near audio speaker in Anchorage, Alaska. Lettering on microphone reads: "KENI." 1952. Photographer: Ward W. Wells....
People posing outside cabin housing the mine's radio equipment, standing left to right: John Sonya, Joe Bauer, Priscilla Sorensen, Paul Sorensen, Brownie Tippets, and Gene Tippets
Title by indexer. Handwritten text on verso looks like: "Joe Allabough. Mgr." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized...
Title by indexer. A boy is sitting on a bed and appears to be talking into a device, possibly a ham radio or telephone. The boy's head especially is blurred, perhaps due to motion at the time the photo was taken.