12 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection (Alaska Review #17, 1978)". Film shows a Cessna 185 landing at Merrill Field in Anchorage.
55 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection (Alaska Review #8, 1976)". Film shows Cessna 185 taking off from Talkeetna and flying around Mt. McKinley/Denali.
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
Father and son Noel and Merrill Wien stand in front of Wien Air Alaska Cessna 185, possibly in Fairbanks, Alaska. From information with photo: "Noel Wien, noted for his contributions to Alaska's aviation history over the past years, stands with his...
Mileage sign on new Glenn Highway. Sign says, "Anchorage 185 Miles (arrow) Drive Hopefully." From verso: "Near GlenAllen". n.d. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Shell Simmons (second from left), Bee Simmons (far right), and two unidentified people pose in front of Shell's private plane, a Cessna 185 with sign: "Juneau, Alaska, 'Capital City of the Great Land'"
Shell Simmons poses with unidentified man; Shell's Cessna 185, which he flew 1969-1975, in background; sign on plane: "Juneau, Alaska, 'Capital City of the Great Land'"; sign on building in background reads, in part, "El Cajon"
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Title from accompanying notes. "Our second bush pilot, Floyd Miller, arriving in his 6-place Cessna 185 to check out our site before starting to carry in loads for us." Airplane parked at foot of rocky steep mountainside.
Title from note on verso Additional information on verso: Last [Cessna] 185 purchased by ACA [Alaska Coastal Airlines] and used privately by Shell Simmons from 1969-1975; then purchased by Bill Burnhart and operated by Juneau Air Taxi in 1975;...