Title from caption. Caption also includes the number 338 and the word "Photocraft." Verso reads: "Ice breaking up in Copper River at the Chitina crossing Mile 132 C.R. & N.W. Ry. Stringers and rails taken up to save them from going into river....
152 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Washburn Collection, 1938". Film shows men preparing a plane to take off from a tidal flat. The plane takes off and then lands again, and is refueled. Aircraft N-Number:...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a Ford Tri-Motor airplane on skis. The caption underneath the photograph reads "Harding Lake 1938 Would take off in spring Fairbanks field on wheels change to skis [skis] on Harding Lake - the fly to Seward...
53 second film clip, color/silent. Clip shows Howard Hughes at Weeks Field in Fairbanks during his record setting around-the-world flight, July 13, 1938. Scenes include a ground crew checking the plane and loading supplies.
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...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
62 second, color and black and white, silent film clip. Sequence shows people at the crash site of a Star Airlines Bellanca aircraft. The passengers and crew build a fire and at the end of the clip dog teams arrive.
Title taken from caption. Either in 1937 or 1938. Dam gates are open to clean the mud out of the pond. Dam had to be cleaned up once or twice a month." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 74 - 5, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4.
Title taken from caption. "Circle district in 1937 or 1938. Elevated sluice boxes supported by well built trestles." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 74 - 6, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4.
Title taken from back of photograph: "Ililuk Bay, Unalaska village 1938." An aerial view of the mountains, numerous shorelines, a channel, and Iliuliuk Bay. Unalaska village is directly below, with its prominent Russian Orthodox church in the...
The community seen in this image has been previously identified as Biorka. Jeffrey Dickrell of Unalaska, Alaska caught the error and further research has confirmend that this is a photograph of Unalaska...
Image shows an aerial view of the University of Alaska (Fairbanks) campus in 1938. The Agricultural Experiment Station, plowed fields and farm buildings are visible near the center of the image. Other campus buildings and...
Title by cataloguer. Cataloguer's note: A view of the campus presumably in 1938. The building to the far left is Hess Hall, (three-story structure) the one story building in the foreground is Eielson, which at the time housed both the music...