(4:51 min) (02 of 25) Personal background
office work; Valdez; Ketchikan; steamship company -- like family; spirit of adventure; Alaska Steam -- important community; changes; Fairbanks; Alaska Railroad; competition; freight
1 map on 3 sheets: : hand col. ; 70 X 147 cm., sheets 74 x 51 or smaller. Relief shown pictorially. Inset sheet 3: Karta predstavliaiushchaia chast' zapadnago berega Ameriki⦠Falk 1790-7. Published in St. Petersburg[?] 179[?]
1 map on 3 sheets: hand col. ; 70 X 147 cm., sheets 74 x 51 or smaller. Relief shown pictorially. Inset sheet 3: Karta predstavliaiushchaia chast' zapadnago berega Ameriki⦠Falk 1790-7. Published in St. Petersburg[?] 179[?]
133 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Washburn Collection, 1937". Film shows a man starting the propeller on a Fairchild 51 and then two men digging it out of the snow.
51 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Cordle Collection". Film shows men struggling to load a Moss Larsen diesel engine aboard a Star Airways Bellanca.
51 second, black and white, silent film clip of the ferry M/V Kalakala (meaning "Flying Bird" in Chinook). Originally launched as the Peralta on October 14, 1926, in San Francisco, she burned to the waterline on May 6, 1933. The intact hull was...
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...