Includes forecast of wind and weather in the North Pacific for July, U.S. weather and temperature signals, U.S. storm signals, fog signals, time ball, steamer routes from Brito to Yokohama and Hongkong, equator crossings for sailing passages in the...
Title taken from caption. View of pilot boat at Bethel, Alaska, with United States flag flying and men on deck. Two small boats are visible in foreground and at right. Printing on boat at left reads: "Husky II." Also from caption: "Bethel, AK."...
Title taken from caption. A pilot boat approaches the U.S. Navy cargo ship Sirius. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title supplied by cataloger. Two women and a pilot standing beside an airplane. The pilot is wearing a flight suit with goggles and the women are wearing dresses, coats and hats. One woman is wearing eyeglasses. Part of the plane's markings...
Title supplied by cataloger. Four men are visible. Two are wearing driving caps, one has a fedora, and one wears a pilot's jacket and hat with goggles. The bottom portion of the photo is obscured. The pilot is also pictured in photos...
Title taken from caption. View of the pilot house of the steamer Yukon. Mr. Rose is on the left. Lucas, the Alaska Native pilot hired by the survey crew, is on the right.
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy, likely during the time he served as director of Alaska Territorial Civil Defense from 1954-1958, standing in front of an airplane, talking to an unidentified pilot. The airplane has the word "Alaskan"...
Title taken from label on matting. Photographer Otto C. Schallerer and pilot Bob Ellis standing on airplane float in Ketchikan, Alaska. From label: "Bob Ellis" [penciled in to indicate pilot's identity]. Photographer's number 8459. 1938....
Title from image caption As early as 1775, Russian Orthodox Churches were built in nearly every Alaskan village under Russian influence; artist Sam McClain, painting from old photographs, drawings, or other likenesses, produced 106 watercolors...
Caption attached to this photograph relates: Graduates of the electronic technician pilot class undertaken by the Bureau of Indian Affairs are greeted by Senator E. Gruening at RCA Headquarters in Anchorage. The class has just returned from RCA...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows pilot Jerry Jones standing in front of a Lockheed Electra at the old Juneau Airport. This airplane appears to be part of the pacific Alaska Airways fleet.
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...
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...