Title from verso. "I beleive it was Burt Ruff's ? plane. Tied to ice cakes on frozen beach at [Bootleggers] Cove near Anchorage about 1943. [from Bob Reeve file]. Photo by Russ Dow." A rear view of a float plane labeled "Bristol Bay Air...
Title from verso. "First plane on pontoons spring of 1941. Tied to ice cake on frozen beach at Bootleggers cove near Anchorage. Reason: Flying engineers to Whittier camp of new tunnel job for railroad. Photo by Russ Dow." Compare to...
Title from caption. Verso reads: "Bob Reeve checking [engine] 1937. Photo by Russ Dow." The writing on the side of the house reads: "Reeve Airways. The best. And Nuts? Always use Reeve Airways. Slow, unreliable, unfair and crooked. Scared &...
Title from verso. "Bob Reeve in Fairchild 51 on Columbia Glacier landing field for Ruff & Tuff mine. Ed Tatro (?) in foreground assembling 2 ton Hold tractor from parts flown in after disassembling at mud ville outside Valdez. Photo by Russ...
Exterior shot of a log building that housed the Northern Commercial Company Store in Aniak. A large firewood stack stands adjacent to the store. Snow on the ground. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 5".
Looking across the airstrip at two Reeve Airways airplanes parked on the ground outside the hangar and office building at Valdez airport. Bob Reeve is owner/founder/pilot of Reeve Airways, later Reeve Aleutian Airways. A vehicle is parked in front...
Logging in the vicinity of Pigot Bay, Prince William Sound. Logger is using a Caterpillar bulldozer with an attached lifting arm to move logs into place to form a log raft. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Logging in vicinity of Pigot Bay. Three men standing on shore, surveying a raft of logs floating in the bay. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Title taken from caption "Bob with Dick at his first Chirstmas party." View of Bob Reeve, owner/founder/pilot of Reeve Airways, later Reeve Aleutian Airways, and his son Dick in front of their Christmas tree.
Description: Aerial shot of the original site of Valdez township located on the delta of the Valdez Glacier. Two docks extend into Port Valdez. "Valdez - Alaska" and "Dow 10" are written on photograph. Photo taken from the plane of Bob Reeve...
Description: Photograph shows Al Parmenter, standing on the side of an airplane, about to board. Albert Parmenter came to Alaska in the mid-1930s and mostly flew the Valdez to Fairbanks route. Parmenter left Alaska to work for Lockheed Aircraft....
Title taken from caption. View of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Ingham while docked. Location is likely Valdez. Location is not noted with photo but several others in colection are labeled from Valdez. "U.S.C.G. Cutter Ingham" and "Dow 120"...
Title taken from caption. The view is of 22 people in front of a saloon, several are singing and one has his back turned as he appears to be conducting. The man to the immediate left of the doors is beating a pan or hand held drum and the man to...
Title taken from caption "Russ Dow ready to take pictures on Gillham's route to Fairbanks, June 1937". View is of Russell Dow and his camera posing in front of a plane.
Title taken from caption. View of Valdez from a boat at the dock. The sign reads "Center of the Prince William Sound Gold and Copper Belt", "Valdez terminus of a great scenic road the Richardson Highway", and "Short route Interior A...
Title taken from caption "U.S.S. Louisville scout plane." View of a severviceman standing on top of the wings of a scout plane from the U.S.S. Louisville. The side of the plane is bearing the markings "5-CS-13 Louisville" and "U.S. Navy". There is...