The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
15 second film clip, color/silent. Film shows Beaver taking off from water at Ketchikan. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection (Alaska Review #17, 1978)".
14 second film clip, color/silent. Film shows a Bellanca on floats sitting on Lake Spenard at sunrise/sunset. Title frame: "Dickson Collection, 1935-1940".
54 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "May 4, 1939. Dickson Collection". Film shows a Star Airlines Bellanca take of from the ice on Lake Spenard, after mechanics are done looking at it. Aircraft N-Number is too faint to read.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows two airplanes. One is either taking off or landing, and the other is sitting on the water. Caption from finding aid reads "Mail plane 1954-1956. Fishing Wildlife Patrol plane" The nearer airplane's...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a float plane sitting on a small lake. A couple of barrels sit on the beach. Caption from finding aid reads "(Near Kenai) Lake where float plane was kept, past Soldotna toward Anchorage". Location is...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a float plane sitting on a small lake. There is a small island in the center of the lake. The shore is covered in grasses. Caption from finding aid reads "Kenai National Moose Range; Lake, plane"....
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows an airplane taking off from a river. Caption from finding aid reads "Mail plane taking off in McGrath going downriver". Location is McGrath, Alaska.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows an airplane and a stack of pontoons on the near shore. In the background more airplanes and some buildings can be seen. An airplane can also be seen taking off from the lake. Caption from finding aid...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows an airplane with pontoons crashed on the tundra. Caption from finding aid reads "Crashed airplane". See also: UAF-2010-25-2. Location is unknown.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows an airplane with pontoons crashed on the tundra. Caption from finding aid reads "Float plane crashed on Tundra in 1970s". Registration number on airplane is N-715. See also: UAF-2010-25-1. Location...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows an airplane either being lifted of put into the water. Writing on a ship nearby reads: "American Diamon[d]", which may refer to American Diamond Lines Inc. A man stands on a pontoon of the airplane....
Title from caption. Photograph of a group of people near a float plane. Narrative in photo album reads: "An early aquaplane taken on Lake Washington in Seattle in 1910."
57 second film clip, black & white/silent, of a float plane arriving at the shore of Harding Lake. Sigmund Levanevsky and several others climb out of the plane, take a brief walk on the shore, greeting the crowd, and then climb back into the...
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...