(3:46 min) (19 of 19) Travel agency Started the first tour agency with Chuck West; called it the Arctic Alaska Travel Agency located in the Co-Op. Paul rented the travel agency's space from Cap Lathrop. He also opened an office in...
Title from verso. "Jack Laass travel Air test pilot cracked this plane up on 1st [flight] Date ? Travel Air 4,000's 1930's." This is a poor-quality photo of a biplane on skis. The side of the plane reads "Anchorage No. 2"; the tail, "A.A.T....
Transcript of diary kept by Myrtle Ryan (later Bunger) in 1900 that describes her journey to and life in Dawson in the Yukon Territory and Nome, Alaska. Myrtle recounts how she traveled from Los Angeles, California to Skagway by boat in January...
Title from cataloger notes. Full notes read: "First bus trip to Anchorage from Fairbanks over Richardson Highway 1946 or 1947. Persons from left to right - Charles B. West, Jack Musiel, (Russell Swank - garage operator Anchorage), Paul...
Album of 53 photographs from the Swain family's 12-day trip to Alaska aboard the S. S. ALASKA. Beginning at Pier 42 in Seattle, the images show highlights of travel through the Inside Passage to Seward and then to Anchorage by train. Shore...
Title by indexer. A person's figure can be seen by the front of this biplane on skis. One person (left) is looking on. Houses are visible in the far distance. The markings "A.A.T. Inc.", "C. 194", "Travel Air", and "Anchorage" are visible on...
Title from image. Verso reads: "Anchorage, Alaska. Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Musuem 121 West 7th Avenue Anchorage, Alaska 99501. B65.2.16". A man appears to be manually cranking the propeller of a biplane. "Anchorage No. 1" is...
Woman examining travel posters during 14th Annual Flower Show sponsored by Anchorage Garden Club and held in First National Bank of Anchorage lobby at 4th Avenue and G Street in Anchorage, Alaska. Theme of show was "Around the World with Flowers."...
Title from caption with negative A former Naval Academy training vessel, the BOXER was transferred to the Department of the Interior in 1920 for use by the Bureau of Education in Alaska.
President Harding is greeted by a crowd of people after he disembarks from railroad car; Mrs. Harding and others are under awning on train car platform in background
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "1939. B.C. - Near Telegraph Creek. Slim -." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized...
Title taken from verso. Full verso reads: "Slim and the old Indian chief, as we paid an unannounced visit to this fading tribe some sixty miles east of Big Delta, Alaska. May 1939." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and...
(7:12 min.) (09 of 20) Travel in Nome area--Alaska Steam and its reputation--1952/53 winter spring--Move to Seattle--Tariffs and freight rates--ICC Interstate Commerce Commission--Mr. J. D. Nelson--assistant general traffic manager--Train/ship...