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...
From verso: "A $40 million pulp mill, which will produce 550 tons of high grade dissolving pulp daily will rise during 1952 at this site on Ward's Cove near Ketchikan."
Lumber and firewood stacked on long pier; below pier, numerous people, including musicians and dogs, wait on barge; alongside barge is a tender, flying a U. S. flag Note retractable ramp to left of barge on which two men stand
Title from photographic record Full notes: " Skyline logging the Neets Bay operation of the Ketchikan Pulp Company on Revilla Island. Logs, held by chokers, ride the skyline cable on the 'bicycle,' on their way down to the water where they...
Title from photographic record Full notes: "Skyline logging at the Neets Bay operation of the Ketchikan Pulp Company on Revilla Island. 'Chaser' releasing choker cables from logs in the water in front of the 'A' frame."
Title from photographic record Full notes: "Hollis operation of the Ketchikan Pulp Company on Prince of Wales Island in the Maybeso Drainage. Felling a large Sitka spruce. Note the springboard which is used to give the faller a place to work...
Title from photographic record Full notes: "High climber on his way up a large Sitka spruce to be 'topped' for use as a spar pole in high lead logging. Hollis operation of the Ketchikan Pulp Company in the Maybeso Drainage of Prince of Wales...
Spruce logs, harvested from West Coast of Prince of Wales Island, float in rafts; a man measures one of the logs; houses line shore in background Photographer's number 189811
Davis raft of high grade spruce logs nearly completed; loggers work on logs beneath tall hoist; water and rowboat in foreground; mountains behind Photographer's number 432069