(6:58 min.) (16 of 28) 16. Virginia speaks about flight instruction
Virginia's first solo flight was on December 7, 1941, but since all flights were canceled that day she had to solo again a week later. Flights were cancelled because of...
(4:08 min.) (17 of 28) 17. Virginia comes to Alaska
Virginia was given the chance to come to Alaska as a flight instructor; if she didn't like it she was told she could fly home for free. She only instructed for one summer. She came up,...
(4:26 min.) (19 of 28) 19. Women pilots Virginia wanted corrections made on a display at the airport, adding mention of early women pilots in Alaska. Virginia speaks of things absent in her life and how becoming a Jehovah's Witness helped.
(5:36 min.) (18 of 28) 18. Virginia's students
Virginia's students were varied -- a man who became a jet pilot, a prostitute, and a construction worker named Bullwinkle. She discusses some of her flights to Manly and other interior...
Title taken from photograph.
Verso: Virginia Maru, of Mitsubishi Steamship Company, loading Ketchikan Spruce Mill's first export cargo to Japan at Ketchikan (2,340,000 Ft. BM), for account of Wrangell Lumber Company. The information above...
Verso: Virginia Maru, of Mitsubishi Steamship Company, loading Ketchikan Spruce Mill's first export cargo to Japan at Ketchikan (2,340,000 Ft. BM), for account of Wrangell Lumber Company.
Verso: Virginia Jaunita Gregg maiden name. Virginia Lowney married name. First white child born at the top of the earth Point Barrow Alaska 1919. Died Feb. 11, 1953. To Governor William A. Egan from her son Walter G. Lowney, 1966.
Title taken from verso. Notes attached to the photo read, "Back, Fred Beeler, John Boswell, Wilson W. Walton, Gene Brice, Don Mueller, Robert Mize, ---, Saddie Pratt, ---, Charlie McMahan, Leslie Chester; Next to Back, Elizabeth Grigsby,...
Title from cataloger's notes. Image has Fairbanks Daily News Miner property stamp and news clipping on verso. News clipping on verso reads: "TOYS FOR BARROW CHILDREN - Six members of Brownie Troop 102, Island Homes show some of the stuffed...
Bergman Moses (showing his cowboy boot), Barbara Moses, Cora Moses, Kathleen Moses, and Virginia Moses. Wildfred Evans's warehouse on the left and his house on the right....
Elma Sam, Harding Sam, Cora Moses, Virginia Moses, Clara Sam, and Charlie Williams. Taken on the doorstep of Johnson and Bertha's house in Allakaket in June, 1953 by Bertha...
“Anchorage – Army Private Ralph T. Frye, Hamlet, N.C., briefs Red Cross disaster nursing staff on how to get to isolated Alaskan communities hard hit by Good Friday’s earthquake and tidal waves. Left...
Title taken from back. "The science club was organized in the fall of 1934 by students and faculty from chemistry, home economics, agriculture, and general science. From left to right back row: instructor Roland Snodgrass, Leo Saarela, Elinor...
Title taken from caption. "14 July 1945, Y.T. Ladd Field WAF softball team. Top row, L to R: Pat Smith, Pfc. Natalie Walsh, Lt. Betty Ellen (1st base), Cpl. Helen Baumel, Cpl. Mary Ellen Wolfe, Pfc. Margaret Baker. Middle row: Cpl. Betty...
Title from verso. "The cast of 'Jack and the Bean stalk' Fairbanks Children's theatre flew to King Salmon, Dillingham and Bethel for performances. Left to right: Mrs Deann Harman (?), Guy Van Doren, Richie Verhagen, Virginia Culhoe, Don DeWitt,...
Title from verso. "[Dressed in their mail order catalogue finery, these self confident Eskimo teenagers board a Wien Air bush plane to head south to attend high school.] "Students leaving for school from a sand bar airport of the Kobuk...
Title from verso. "[All aboard for school. From the Alaska arctic, nearly 600 students are gathered from 40 remote villages and fish camps, each fall to fly to Fairbanks and Juneau, heading for high schools and colleges.] "Students boarding...
Title from verso. "[The little Eskimo girl in the left foreground watches the big girls board a Polatis porter bush plane at Kobuk.] Wien Air Alaska photo by Frank Whaley Fairbanks, Alaska."