(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...
Sheldon and Lorena Turner -- Alaskan Survey Expedition Collection contains forty photographs and 1 report relating to the 1932 Alaskan Aerial Survey Expedition. The report, "The Land of the Williwaw," was written by Lieutenant R. H. Harrell,...
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
(6:56 min.) (23 of 24) 23 Cannery runs
A ship would take up the crews and the empty cans in the spring. Filipino workers were in the majority. In the fall, the cannery workers and the fish would come back. The Swedish fishermen were...
Title taken from caption. "Arctic Fishing Co's. Cannery, Kussiloff, Cook's Inlet." A view of the cannery, with several boats on the waterfront. Notes read: "35 mm neg. 75-738 5x8." Cyanotype.
Title taken from caption. Additional notes read: "[Antelope] of [San] Francisco on shore. 75-738, 5x8." A view of the Aberdeen (Salmon) Packing Co. and several sail boats on shore. Cyanotype (blue) print.
Title taken from caption. "Kussiloff from the South, Afeo 10 & unid ship on shore. 75-739 5x8." [The "Afeo 10" is the boat on the left. It is probably a boat of the Arctic Fishing Company. Compare with UAF-1959-866-2.] Cyanotype (blue)...
Title taken from caption. A elderly man sitting in a cannery with a lot of fish. Caption in album reads: "35 mm neg. 75-740". 5 x 8 cyanotype. [Location of Kasilof is inferred from other cannery photos in this collection.]
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "Emard Cannery in background Anchorage, 1930's '37 or '38. Kay J. Kennedy Mail:12831 N. E. 83rd St. Kirkland, Wa. 98033. Estal call photo?" A rear view of a float plane (marked "NC-443-M" on the tail) on a muddy...
Aerial photograph of a dock and cannery buildings in Bristol Bay. Several smaller buildings are visible behind the cannery. Wing of the plane is visible in the shot. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Title taken from caption. View of men from cannery gathered at end of dock at Morzhovoi Bay, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1918.