Title from caption: "Parker-Browne Expedition 1910: Mt. McKinley, Alaska 20,300 ft. from Explorers Peak, 9,000 ft." Postcard postmarked from Ruby, Alaska on Aug. 22, 1913 and addressed to Tomie Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. ...
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...
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...
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 caption. Captions-- At top: "The First Alaskan Air Expedition". Below photo: "Pilots of the Alaskan Expedition. From left to right, Captain St. Clair Streett, Flight Commander; Lieutenant C. C. Nutt, Lieutenant R. C. Kirkpatrick,...
Title taken from caption. View of the Frye-Bruhn ranch buildings with the ash covered land around them. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of salmon hung out to dry as a means to preserving the fish for later consumption at Kodiak Island, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of the chapel and girls dormitory of the Kodiak Baptist Church Orphanage on Woody Island (know earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. The field in front of the trees and buildings is covered in ash. Photo taken during...
Title taken from caption. View of the main building of the Kodiak Baptist Orphanage on Woody Island (know earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of a man examining the dying poplar trees along Soluka Creek in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of poplar trees in a field of ash, sending out sprouts from dormant buds in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of new pussy willow growth, growing horizontally in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Vertical growth has been sandblasted by ash, blowing in the wind, and destroyed. Photo taken during National...
Title taken from caption. View of the Katmai Village Church and its bell. The area was covered in water by the Katmai Flood and Robert F. Griggs states in his book The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes that the bottom of the bell was the high water...
Title taken from caption. View of the interior of the Katmai Church and the damage done by the Katmai Flood. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of the interior of the Katmai Church and the damage done by the Katmai Flood. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of two men holding an eagle that was shot by B.B. Fulton as it flew around base camp in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area....
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition trying to get drinkable water by straining it through a food bag to remove the ash and mud at Soluka Creek in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photo taken during...
Title taken from caption. View of Robert F. Griggs trying to cross the Katmai River. In his book The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Griggs states "After working our way to within a hundred yards of the trees in the distance we had to turn back"....