Title from verso. "Jack Laass travel Air test pilot cracked this plane up on 1st [flight] Date ? Travel Air 4,000's 1930's." This is a poor-quality photo of a biplane on skis. The side of the plane reads "Anchorage No. 2"; the tail, "A.A.T....
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...
41 second, black & white/silent film clip of scenes from a trip up the Inside Passage, Southeast Alaska. The scenery includes a steamship, clouds, mountains, and a coastal town. The people may be tourists.
One minute 30 second, black & white/silent film clip. Images include travel on the Alaska Railroad from the Fairbanks railroad station, travel on the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad using a speeder, and views of Chitina.
2 minute, 29 second film clip, black & white/silent.
Images include railroad station in Skagway, travel from Skagway to Whitehorse on White Pass and Yukon Railway, White Pass, passengers, police, and views of White Horse.
91 second, black & white/silent, film clip of traveling along the Richardson Highway. Included are scenes of a stagecoach, an unidentified community, an airplane, a river, mountains and a glacier. Roadhouses or other buildings bear large signs with...
One minute, 42 second, black & white/silent, film clip of scenes aboard a steamship. Also seen are fog, ocean, a light house, passengers and crew, people playing shuffleboard, and another ship filmed through a port hole.
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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Title from verso. "This reindeer shows resistance to air travel. Photo by Bennett. Kay Kennedy Box 1205 Anchorage, Alaska." On the right, "#15" is written in white pen.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows mineral resources, transportation routes and telegraph lines. Includes legend. Inset: Iditarod and Innoko districts. "Compiled from U.S. Government and R.R. surveys, reliable prospectors and...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows mineral resources, transportation routes and telegraph lines. Includes legend. Inset: Iditarod and Innoko districts. "Compiled from U.S. Government and R.R. surveys, reliable prospectors and...