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 from the Cataloguer. This is a humorous photograph of a bear standing on a man's back. The bear appears to be clapping, and an amused bystander is looking on.
Title from caption. Three men, one working with a movie camera, are taking moving pictures on the deck on the U.S.R.C. "Bear". The white square they are concentrating on is Captain Bartlet's chart of the Arctic.
Title taken from caption. View of one expedition member filming another getting a haircut while the expedition was in Kodiak. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1917. Photographer: Paul Rarey Hagelbarger.
Title taken from caption. Five members of the National Geographic expedition in what was later designated at Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Members pictured include Robert F. Griggs, Charles Yori, and E.C. Kolb. There is a movie camera...
Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "[Emery C.] Kolb and [Richard E.] Helt wading out to take motion pictures of the salmon jumping the falls. One fish in air just over Kolb's head." The falls in the photo are probably the Iliuk Falls....
Title taken from caption. View of Emery Clifford Kolb using a motion picture camera while at Camp Savonoski in Alaska. Caption also says: "Kolb taking motion pictures at Camp Savonoski." Emery Clifford Kolb is named as the photographer for this...
Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "[Emery C.] Kolb attempting to take pictures of salmon from above the falls. As soon as he entered the water all jumping ceased. They must have tasted his feet!" It is probable that these are the Iliuk...
Title taken from caption. View of H.M Wallace, a member of the National Geographic Society expedition, carrying a motion picture camera and its gear up Mount Katmai, Alaska. Photo taken in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and...
Title taken from caption. View of two members of the National Geographic Society expedition standing on Near Island, Alaska, and using a motion picture camera to film Kodiak, which can be seen in the background at right. Photo taken during National...
Title taken from caption. View of two beached boats with the docks behind them at left and the "Nimrod" leaving the dock at Kodiak, Alaska. To the right of the photo one member of the National Geographic Society expedition is standing in the mud of...
Title taken from caption. View of several people standing in front of two airplanes. The two in the front are filming the eclipse. From caption: "1963 Talkeetna Eclipse". Based on other photos in series, this photo was most likely taken near...
A movie camera on a tripod is set up on the ice in the foreground, while a whaling crew looks into the water at a whale carcass prior to hauling it out and butchering it. A small wooden whaling boat is visible in the water. Photograph taken during...
Two King Island, Alaska kayakers raft alongside a boat as they unload cargo, with a man sitting across the bows of the kayaks. Another man in a fur parka stands on a small platform looking down at the kayakers and a movie camera is partially...
Title hand-written on slide. This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk on June 12, 1961 and depicts naturalists Olaus John Murie (1889-1963) and his wife, Margaret "Mardy" E. Murie (1902-2003), in front of their tent at their camping site on...
This color slide depicts unidentified men standing on a dock at King Salmon, Alaska in 1962, measuring and cleaning salmon. There are salmon in metal tubs on the dock, and two pairs of men hold salmon on white tables. A man in the top left of the...
Title taken from front. Photographer W. A. Hesse filming Katmai volcano, Alaska. Also from front: ""copr. 1913" by M. Hohner." 1913. Photographer: M. Hohner. Postcard. Original photograph size: 5 3/8" x 3 3/8".
Title supplied by cataloger. Two men with film cameras near Glacier Bay. One man uses a camera on a tripod to apparently film the ground. The other man lays on the ground shooting into the sky. A tripod is set on the ground to the left. 2 1/4 B&W...
Ross Kirkpatrick sits in front cockpit of plane; man in rear pit looks at a movie camera; plane was part of U.S. Army Alaskan flying expedition from New York to Nome in 1920; planes were DeHavilland DH-4B biplanes, modified with long-range fuel...