1 map on 10 sheets; library rare copy missing sheet 1. Relief shown by form lines, shading and spot heights. Includes notes regarding agencies and individuals whose surveys provided cartographic bases. In color. Map 7 of 10.
Title from verso. Photo of men and equipment landing on Amchitka Island. Verso reads: "As the first wave of landing boats sweeps in to the rocky beach on Amchitka, troops and cargo await transportation ashore. The U.S. landing on the...
Details of the S.S. Yukon shipwreck near Seward, Alaska. Note the boiler that is under water facing the stern from the main deck. Original size of photograph: 5" x 7".
Title taken from verso. Stamped on the back of the 5" x 7" photograph is Glacier Photo Service, Seward, Alaska. Written on the back of the 8" x10" photograph is: Crew members and passengers work in unison to remove victims from the wreck of the...
Forward (bow) end of the wreckage of the S.S. Yukon near Seward, Alaska. A barge is along the side in the foreground. Original size of photograph: 5" x 7".
View of the stern of the S.S. Yukon after the shipwreck near Seward, Alaska. The entire stern area has been torn off and has sunk. A barge is on the far right. Original size of photograph: 5" x 7".
Title taken from information with photo. Totem pole in front of building, Wrangell, Alaska. Photographer's number 73. March 7, 1899. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Title from caption in album: "May 12 - Wounded big male bear where I first saw it just below the crest". Photograph shows a bear walking across a snow-covered mountainside after it was shot.
Title taken from front. View of wood yard at Nenana, Alaska, with buildings in background. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 130. April 1, 1918. Photographer: A.J. Johnson. Original photograph size: 7 5/8" x 9 5/8".
Title taken from information with photo. View of woman climbing down ladder from window above Denali Restaurant at Fourth Avenue and B Street in Anchorage, Alaska, after March 27, 1964 earthquake damaged building. Sign on building reads: "Denali...
Title from verso. "439 AB-28 Feb 44 - 1384 (7). Winter scene at Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska. A dog team of the Air Transport Command's Alaska Division mushes down the line past a C-47 Skytrain, at the left, and a C-46 Commando, world's...
Title from caption in album, caption reads: "Feb 14 - Winter market hunters leaving outside cabin woods - outside range". Photograph shows four people standing near a dog sledding team on a snowy field.
(7:50 min) (16 of 17) Medical emergencies & tourist industry While teaching at Ft. Yukon woman was having a breech birth. Agreed to take her, got everything ready and when he called to bring her to airplane the baby was born. Wien drove out...
(7:43 min) (11 of 17) Check your own gas cap
Picked up an L1 observation plane with Sasoon for Fish & Wildlife doing work in Prince William Sound. Flying on Sunday no one around Still had some in main tank as well as auxiliary tank. When...
(7:29 min) (10 of 17) Exciting and scary situations
Teaching in Ft. Yukon, went to Fairbanks then headed back with heavy load. Ft. Yukon ice fogged in, headed back to Fairbanks, White Mountains were fogged in too, had to climb over top. ...
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...
Sign located outside Wien Air Alaska hangar at Fairbanks International Airport, Fairbanks, Alaska, celebrating Wien Air Alaska's fifty years of service. Sign reads: "Wien Air Alaska. 50 years of service. July 1974." 1974. Original photograph size:...
View of Wien Air Alaska office in Bethel, Alaska, with ladder leaning against front of building, storage tanks in front at right, and quonset hut partially visible at far right. Sign on building reads: "Bethel, Alaska. Wien Air Alaska." 1966-1968....