(4:51 min) (02 of 25) Personal background
office work; Valdez; Ketchikan; steamship company -- like family; spirit of adventure; Alaska Steam -- important community; changes; Fairbanks; Alaska Railroad; competition; freight
Title from indexer. Photograph shows people standing near a Ford Tri-Motor airplane on skis in Kotzebue. Caption under photograph reads "Kotzebue 1937 - preparing for trip to Barrow".
The airplane tail number is NC 8419 and the airplane also...
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 taken from caption. "1864 - Oregon State Building, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington." The post mark reads Fairbanks Alaska, Oct 30 4 PM, 1909.
Title from verso. "Returning from China and Siberia, Vice-President, Henry A. Wallace dined at Ladd Field, Fairbanks Alaska, with Russian and American airmen who fly lend-lease planes to the Soviet Air Forces through the Alaskan Division, Air...
Title from album caption Full caption: "From deck of S.S. BERTHA , at anchor, Knik Arm, Cook Inlet, April 28, 1912. Present summer terminal of Alaskan R.R. to Fairbanks Alaska. #1. Didn't look any too good. McNeil snap shot"