Title taken from verso. View of ACV (air cushion vehicle) used as ferry during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction at Yukon River in Interior Alaska. April 15, 1975. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10 1/8".
Title taken from verso. View of construction crew and crane at Yukon River bridge site during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. April 15, 1975. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 10" x 8".
Tlingit men and woman wearing ceremonial costumes in front of Chief Shakes House, Wrangell, Alaska. Photo is mislabeled "Eskimos" on front. From front: "Eskimos at Wrangel [sic], Alaska, July 6, 1898." Photographer's number 15. July 6, 1898....
Title taken from front. View of three planes in the World Flight Squadron on Resurrection Bay, Seward, Alaska. From verso: "U.S. Army Air Service World Flight, 1924. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." April 15, 1924. Photographer: Alaska...
The wooden mask is carved in an elongated oval shape, with a polished smooth surface. The wood is very dark in color. The face shows arching brows and a small ridge running vertically on the forehead from between the eyes to the top of the mask....
Title taken from caption. A view of the information center at Wood Center. According to the sign posted on the wall, Daily News Miner, Anchorage Daily News, and Anchorage Times all sold for 15 cents, and the Wall Street Journal sold for 40...
Caption: Miners from Flat, Alaska, set up a tripod for setting the Winnie Mae upright so that the airplane can be repaired. The Winnie Mae hit a patch of mining tailings, during Wiley Post's solo round the world flight, and nosed over. The Winnie...
(3:20 min) (15 of 17) Change and familiarity
Man ran out onto ice and was waving arms Red thought something was wrong so landed and man just wanted to say hello. On a trip to Huslia with a fur buyer.
(3:15 min) (05 of 17) Back to teaching
Bad fire season too many people crashing. Took job flying for Trans-ocean airways, then flew Korean air lift for military. After war too much competition from Wien Airways so went back to teaching. ...
View of memorial stone to Will Rogers and Wiley Post who died during an airplane crash at Barrow, Alaska. Inscriptions on memorial reads: "Will Rogers and Wiley Post, 'America's ambassadors of good will,' ended life's flight here August 15, 1935....
Sir G. Hubert Wilkins and Carl Ben Eielson landing in Barrow, Alaska, on their first circumpolar flight, April 15, 1928. This flight went from Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen, Norway, a distance of 2500 miles. From verso: "At Barrow. On their first...
Title from verso of similar photograph. "[Wien Employees party - November 15, 1969]." This appears to be the retirement party for Alden Williams. Compare UAF-1991-98-641.
Title from verso of similar photograph. "Wien employees Party - November 15, 1969." A gray-haired man in a suit and tie holds up what appears to be a cake with the image of an airplane on it. This appears to be a retirement party for Alden...
Title from verso of similar photograph. "[Wien employees party - November 15, 1969]." This appears to be a retirement party for Alden Williams. See UAF-1991-98-644.
1 min, 15 sec film clip, color/sound. Marvin "Muktuk" Marston narrates an Eskimo hunting of a beluga whale. Location unknown. From video "People of the tundra".
Munoz, Rie (artist). Size: 15.25 x 22.5 in. Medium: Stone litho on paper A brightly colored print depicting natives around a beached whale. There are six human figures around the whale, three of which are standing upon it. All of the figures...