Map annotated by George Hubert Wilkins with flight paths and notes for expeditions including the 1927 Stinson biplane mishap that forced Wilkins and Eielson to walk across the ice to Beechey Point, the Wilkins-Eielson 1928 route, the Wilkins Flying...
William E. Beltz, Presiding, sits at desk by Alaska flag; Katherine Alexander, Secretary, and Virginia Regan, Asst. Secretary, are at front of desk; members of the Senate fill the room
William E. Beltz, Presiding, sits at desk by Alaska flag; Katherine Alexander, Secretary, and Virginia Regan, Asst. Secretary, are at front of desk; members of the Senate fill the room
People identified in caption: top row, left to right: Barry Keown, Col. Hartman, Carl Lomen, Earl Rossman, Henry Bizanion, Alfred Lomen; bottom row, left to right: Capt. A.M. Smith, Valhjalmur Stefansson, Sir Hubert Wilkins, Col. Ben Eielson
Group portrait of (I. to r.) Sec. of Commerce Herbert Hoover, Sec. of Interior Hubert Work, President Harding, Sec. of Interior Henry C. Wallace and Speaker of the House Frederick H. Gillett
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...
Map of Asian Russia, including Bering Strait and part of the western coast of Alaska. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored; outline color. Embossed with the seal de l'Auteur. No. 43 of Brue's Atlas universel de geographie physique.