Included in this collection are pictures of the Rodebaughs, Noel and Ralph Wien, A.A. Bennett, Ed Hudson and Fred Mueller. There are also images of the various planes flown in Alaska during this era of newfound commercial aviation and notable...
Title by cataloger. Two airline crew members are loading freight, including some kind of heavy machinery, into a transport plane. The backs of their uniforms appear to read "Northern Consolidated Airlines".
Title by indexer. A man wearing traditional Alaskan Native parka with the patch reading "Wien Arctic Tours". He is holding up a large Wien Consolidated poster reading: "Join the midnight sun set in Alaska. Wien Consolidated. Alaska's first...
"Watch Alaska! "Opportunity... "Pilots and mechanics Alaska Star airlines is growing! To keep pace with today's urgent wartime requirements and gear up for the increased passenger, mail, express and freight...
View of a group of people boarding an airplane somewhere in Southcentral Alaska, tentatively in Cordova, Alaska, after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Airline name reads Cordova Airlin(es). Two cars on left have signs on roof which read Taxi. A...
Title taken from verso. Airline pilots and others outside Wien Alaska Airlines lodge in Bettles, Alaska, with laundry on line at left and fuel storage tank at right. Sign on building reads: "Wien Alaska Airlines." Sign on bench reads: "Courtesy of...
Alaska Air Transport, a commercial air carrier business started by Shell Simmons in 1935, merged with Marine Airways in 1939 to create Alaska Coastal Airline
Alaska Air Transport, a commercial air carrier business started by Shell Simmons in 1935, merged with Marine Airways in 1939 to create Alaska Coastal Airline Note on verso identifies the plane as a Lockheed Vega
Color photograph of Grumman Goose against backdrop of blue sky, with snow-capped mountains below Note on verso: "First Alaska Coastal turbine Goose; before approval certification, in January 1967, for airline use"; "Experimental"; Ray Renshaw...
Title taken from creator's notes. Color photograph. Notes read: The north side of Second Street from Cushman looking east toward Lacey. The businesses (left to right) are a gift shop, Griffin's Music (and photography), the Model Cafe, the...
Photograph of three men, probably including E. L. Bob Bartlett, standing on the street as Scandinavian Airlines System Salutes Alaska with a display in a window in Washington D. C.
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...
8x10 photo. Title from handwritten note on verso. Full note reads:
"L to R Dispatcher Tom Devane, Capt Al Monsen, Oper Mgr Emmer Bassett, Capt S[.]E[.]Robbins Main Mgr Loren Fernald, [Sta. Mgr?] Clark Bassett, [Mail Spur?] Fred...
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...