Caption: Willard L. Bowman, Executive Director, State Commission for Human Rights, visits with Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett during a short stay in Washington. From Washington Mr. Bowman, long-time resident of Anchorage, flew to Toledo to join Mrs....
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Full caption reads:
"Ralph and Ida Savory in the cockpit of a Boeing 707-320 just prior to Take-Off non stop London to Seattle, October 13, 1969. This was the final flight for Pan Am, mandatory...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a pile of dead caribou on the runway at Arctic Village, Alaska. Caption from finding aid reads "Caribou meat at the Arctic Village Runway 1969". Location is Arctic Village, Alaska.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows an airplane with the tail number N-715 parked on snow in front of a mountain. Caption from finding aid reads "Operations, N-715 at Chandalar River March 1969". Location is Chandalar River, Alaska.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a man standing near an airplane parked in front of mountains. Caption from finding aid reads "Operations; at Ambresvajun Lake, ANWR March 1969". Airplane's registration number appears to be N-715;...
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...
Title from verso. Full comment from verso reads: "Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the discovery well for the giant Prudhoe Bay field, is enclosed in a metal building in this 1969 photograph. The discovery well, drilled in 1968 by ARCO/Exxon,...
Title from verso. Full verso caption reads: "First development at Prudhoe Bay, on Alaska's North Slope, is pictured above in 1969. At center is ARCO's operations center, and adjoining it is a small topping plant to produce diesel fuel for...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Hercules C-130 aircraft lands on ARCO's Prudhoe Bay airstrip to supply exploratory drilling operations late in 1969. The huge aircraft made it possible to transport drill rigs to the North...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Equipment used for seismic exploration on Alaska's North Slope in 1969 includes a shot hole drill, at left foreground, and a Nodwell tracked vehicle at center. At right in one of the portable...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "The aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, dances across the Arctic sky in this photo taken at Prudhoe Bay on a cold winter's night in 1969."
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "A drilling rig sends out a spray of steam during exploratory work at Prudhoe Bay in 1969. The well which discovered the huge oil field had previously been drilled but additional wells, such as...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "A tugboat and barges, used to lighter freight from larger ocean-going barges after their arrival on Alaska's North Slope, maintain a lonely vigil after freezeup in the fall on 1969."
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Blowing snow nearly obscures the Prudhoe Bay discovery well in 1969 photo. 'White outs' such as this are common during Arctic winters."
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Barges used to transport Prudhoe Bay oil field facilities from the West Coast to Alaska's North Slope during the summer of 1969 remain frozen in the ice at ARCO's East Dock during the...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Roughnecks connect pipe string during delineation drilling at Prudhoe Bay in 1969. Extreme weather conditions in the Arctic mandate that the drill floor be enclosed and heated."
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Hercules C-130 aircraft lands at Prudhoe Bay to bring in supplies for drilling activity in 1969. soon after the discovery of the giant oil field."
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Support helicopter hovers low over seismic 'cat train' making its way across the frozen tundra of Alaska's North Slope in 1969."