View of a building on Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Sign above building reads: "Eielson Air Terminal. 500th AB Wing. Alaskan Air Command". From front: "Eielson AFB". Photo taken between 1960 and 1979. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
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...
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. "Wilkins, Eielson (behind engine). Orange and black plane Stinson Detroiter for Arctic Expedition. Eielson head out of sight. 1927 not successful trip. Sold to Wien. Kay J. Kennedy aviation collection." At their feet lie...
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...
President Ford stands at a podium in front of Air Force One, inside a hangar at Eielson Air Force Base, during the President's tour of Interior Alaska; on the far left is the Commander of Eielson Air Force Base; and, on the far right is Senator Ted...
Verso: Farewell gift to Major General C. F. Necrason, Alaskan Air Command commander, is presented by Col. Stephen W. Henry, Eielson AFB commander. Senator Gruening and Congressman Rivers attended the reception for Gen. Necrason at Eielson AFB,...
Title taken from verso.
Photograph of the open cockpit biplane, mounted on skis.
Verso: first experimental mail flights Fairbanks to McGrath made by Col. Carl Ben Eielson. Ship is 400 h.p. 12 cylinder water cooled Liberty engine DeHaviland...
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 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 supplied by cataloger. Men, at least one wearing a parka and hat, walking around the wing of an airplane identified in UAF 2006-102-13 as Carl Ben Eielson's plane, covered in deep snow. Identification taken from the book Polar Pilot by...