Title from verso. "Clyde Armistead who won Soviet decoration at Moscow for Arctic relief flights from Fairbanks Mattern's plane." A view of Pacific Alaska Airways hangar and an aircraft. Clyde Armistead, hands in his pockets, is standing in the...
Title from verso. "Clyde Armistead serving his Sikorsky flying boat. From a Noel Ross negative." A man is seen pouring something into the aircraft. Inscription on the side of the plane reads: Agent for [Exploration] Erskine. (May be Clyde G....
Title from verso. "Clyde Armistead, pilot S. E. Robbins, hip boats [boots] and [?] our reading for take off on an arctic rescue mission. Sam O. White in center." The letters PAA are visible on the door of the aircraft.
Title from verso> "[Merton] At[t]wood - [with] Jenny 36 KS. Alaska approximate date 1925 to 1928. Still alive and mining in Manley Hot Springs area. Also has own airplane, still flying. The numbers 47358 is faintly visible on the side of the...
Title taken from a billboard on photo. "Hatton Centennial City. Welcome Home of Carl Ben Eielson. Verso reads: "Photo by Jerome Lardy 1979." See identical (color) photo at UAF-1991-98-1072.
Title taken from a commemorative monument. "1897 - 1929. Carl Benjamin Eielson was born at Hatton, North Dakota on July 20, 1897. He was educated in the public schools of Hatton and at the University of North Dakota, receiving his B. A. Degree...
Title from caption. Photograph of Signal Corps Camp. Caption reads: Signal Corps Construction part doing preliminary work Feb-Mch 1913. From left to picture to right are Casey, teamster; Sizeland and Germundsen, timber men; Cavanaugh,...
Title from monument text. "Carl Benjamin Eielson enlisted in the Air Service of the United States Army on January 17, 1917. In 1923 he piloted the first airplane in Alaska and in 1924 he flew the first government mail plane in that territory. He...
Title from verso. "Fabbor(?) in background - Ben lost a wing (?) 'The America'. Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." The undersides of the wings appear to read "Fokker": the letters "FOK" on the left and "KER" on the right.
Title from accompanying note. "Cookrey(?) says this is Eielson. I have to concur. Compare the face with the Loftus picture with Eielson in the cockpit - they appear to be the same or that picture is misidentified.
Title from verso. "Date (?). Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." The aviator Ben Eielson, wearing a heavy parka and dark goggles, is standing in the foreground. Directly behind, other people are standing near a small aircraft.
Title from verso of a contact sheet. A man identified as Bud Hagberg (possibly a Wien Air Alaska employee) is sitting behind a desk, looking at the camera.
Title from verso of a contact sheet. A man identified as Bud Hagberg, possibly a Wien Air Alaska employee, is sitting behind a desk, smiling at the camera.
Title from verso. "Fish at Selby Lake 1960s. Wien Air Alaska Airlines. Photo by Frank Whaley Fairbanks, Alaska." In his left hand, Hagberg holds a thin rod, probably a fishing pole. At bottom on the left is a metal or plastic box, perhaps...
Title from verso. "Marshall Hoppin, CAA administrator and later President of Alaska Airlines. K.K. Kay J. Kennedy P. O. Box 80805 Fairbanks, AK 99708."