"Watch Alaska! "Opportunity... "Pilots and mechanics Alaska Star airlines is growing! To keep pace with today's urgent wartime requirements and gear up for the increased passenger, mail, express and freight...
View of the village of Atka, Alaska. From verso: "Dear folks - A picture of our village to bring our Christmas Greetings to you. Didn't have Xmas cards so Bell made these for us. Lovingly, Rhoda. [Address:] Mr. & Mrs. E. L. Engle, Endevell, Broome...
Title taken from front. Group of people enjoying watermelon, Barrow, Alaska. From photographer's notes: "Picture taken at midnight in Pt. Barrow, Alaska, 1921. Sandy Smith? second from left came over land and bought a watermelon. No. 1 from left,...
Title taken from front. Fur trader Ed Shepherd and Nathan Noongwook shaking hands above flag which reads "The Adventurers Club" in front of sled in Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska. Flag advertises The Adventurers Club of New York. Sled is...
From verso: "Miss Miriam Dickey and Captain Lathrop. Miss Dickey is Secretary-Treasurer of the Midnight Sun Broadcasting Company, and is Capt's "right hand man" in all his other widespread enterprises. It was her interest in radio and its...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Ancillary map: Diagram of the Middle States; [North America]. "Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1867 by G. W. & C. B. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of...
Title from caption. Image is a postcard. Image shows a bridge over some rushing rapids on a river. Caption reads "857 Whirlpool Rapids". The appears to be the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge on the Niagara River. Verso reads "11am. July 22. Dear...
(4:46 min.) (11 of 28) 11. Back to the U.S.
Military wanted them to stay and offered George a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant. He wanted to get back home for at least a visit, so he flew back with a cargo of latex rubber. Engine problems...
"Eight native Alaskans, of Indian and Eskimo backgrounds, conclude 18-months study of Industrial and Communications Electrinics by receiving diplomas from the RCA Institutes in New York. All are members of a pilot educational project sponsored by...
Verso: Eighteen months of demanding study in electronics ended successfully August 10 for eight native Alaskans when all were graduated by the RCA Institutes in New York. They are members of a pilot educational program sponsored by the Bureau of...
Verso: These native Alaskans successfully completed an 18-months course in Industrial and Communications Electronics and were graduated August 10 from the RCA Institutes in New York. All are members of a pilot educational project sponsored by the...
Verso: An experiment in adult education was concluded successfully with the graduation August 10 of eight native Alaskans from the RCA Institutes in New York. All completed an 18-months course in Industrial and Communications Electronics. Here,...
Title taken from caption on slide. "'Porter' Aircraft. (made in Switzerland; Lycoming "6" engine). Crew chief is from Flatbush Ave, [Brooklyn?] New York. Will take off in less than 300 yds. ([Fairbanks International Airport] August 1966). Fort...
Photograph of a man reading the Army Navy Register in the headquarters tent of the WAMCATS construction camp. Visible on a box is a typewriter and one of the boxes is a crate of bacon that held 6-12 lb. cans--packed in May 1911 in Buffalo, New...