Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG) and military personnel store 600 meals of emergency rations M,P,F in metal containers with socks, gloves and ammunition.
31 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection (Alaska Review #55, 1984)". Film shows a medevac patient being loaded off of a Cessna 207 and into an ambulance in Barrow.
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
(4:43 min.) (08 of 27) Start of contracting
First job was building the bridge between Illinois St. and College Road over Noyes Slough. Lots of paperwork, everything was an emergency since there was no experience with how to do the simplest...
(4:40 min) (12 of 17) Flying for DGGS pt.1
As a pilot for Division of Geology and Geodetic Surveys had emergency call to fly in whiteout conditions to get a badly burned man at another station. Flying under 200 ft. elevation so not to miss...
(4:16 min) (13 of 17) Flying for DGGS pt. 2
As a pilot for Division of Geology and Geodetic Surveys had emergency call to fly in whiteout conditions to get a badly burned man at another station. Flying under 200 ft. elevation so not to miss...
(7:50 min) (16 of 17) Medical emergencies & tourist industry While teaching at Ft. Yukon woman was having a breech birth. Agreed to take her, got everything ready and when he called to bring her to airplane the baby was born. Wien drove out...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
41 second film clip, black & white/silent of disaster relief including children being given shots, and lying on sleeping bags and of people standing in line and being served food.
Title by cataloguer. "Dr. Bunnell, John J. Kowalak photographer, c/o University of Alaska, College, Alaska 1944." According to Terrance Cole, who has describes this image in his 1994 book 'The Cornerstone of College Hill,' the crash had...
Title taken from back of photo. . "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- EMERGENCY FACILITIES -- The parking lot and bachelor noncommissioned officer's quarters at the USAF Hospital Elmendorf saw a lot of activity during the week of...
Title taken from note with photo. "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaska Air Command] -- EVACUATION -- Patients in serious condition and those requiring lengthy hospitalization were air evacuated from USAF Hospital Elmendorf shortly after the...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Pvt. [Private] Michael Water administers a typhoid immunization shot to Trooper Robert Crockell in Valdez Ak., following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64".
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "The American Legion Hall at Glennallen (post 27) was used for the first [time] on Good Friday, as the Emergency shelter for the citizens of Valdez, and used as one of the three mess halls...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "April 6 -- Transportation vehicles ranging from dog sleds to military aircraft were used by the American Red Cross in transporting emergency relief supplies and personnel into Alaskan...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "'Operation Helping Hand' helped the small villages with medicine, food, and clothing following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64". A helicopter passenger, wearing a warm flight suit and bunny...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Medical supplies being transfered from station wagon to high way state Police car at mile 57, Glenn hiway for emegency [emergency] flight at Gulkana to Palmer for the Hospital for the...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Emergency Powerhouse displays the oily water line when the tide came in behind the station administration building 3/27/64. For immediate release official U. S. Navy photograph. Public...
Title taken from accompanying note. "The arrival of the Army convoy to Valdez Ak., carrying rations, bedding, water and medical supplies following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64". Soldiers in bunny boots and warm hats stand and walk on a Valdez...