Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
Title by cataloger. A view of the waterfront with an aircraft and a few boats. Several houses are visible in the background. In front of the float plane, a man stands in one boat while a woman stands in the water with a bucket next to another...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man standing in front of an airplane. Another man is sitting on a heavily loaded truck. Two more men ate in the background near a building.
Title by cataloguer. "Dr. Bunnell, John J. Kowalak photographer, c/o University of Alaska, College, Alaska 1944." According to Terrance Cole, who has describes this image in his 1994 book 'The Cornerstone of College Hill,' the crash had...
Title from verso. "Edmonton, Alberta - This is another view of an airplane wing being loaded aboard a C-46 (Curtiss Commando) at the Army Air Base, Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command, for the shipment 'up the line'. The wing was raised to...
Title handwritten on slide. This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk on June 15, 1961 and depicts the airport office building at the airport at Fort Yukon, Alaska. The signs on the office building read, "Passenger Entrance" and "Wien...
View of a man on a vehicle pulling an Alaska Airlines float at the Golden Days parade in Fairbanks, Alaska as spectators look on. One woman on the float is dressed as a flight attendant and another is wearing a hula skirt and leis. Wing display on...
This color slide depicts an unidentified Alaska native man at either Barrow or Kotzebue holding the head of a walrus. The man is standing in front of a boat, and another man is standing on the boat behind him, the lower half of whom is visible. ...
This color slide depicts an unidentified Alaska Native man holding a walrus head in a fishing boat near either Kotzebue or Barrow in 1962. The man is wearing a parka with a fur-trimmed hood. There is a second walrus head in the boat, as well as...
Title taken from verso. Alyeska Pipeline Service Company superintendent F.W. Jones (right) with another man at Trans-Alaska Pipeline Pump Station 6 on Yukon River during pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. April 1975. Photographer: Steve...
Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Includes decorative cartouche. Inset: Partie nord ouest de l'Amerique. "Publiee en 1750 et corrigee en 1775, par le S. Robert de Vaugondy." Inset shows one of the latest of the many variations of...
66 second film clip, color/silent, of people gathering and transporting fire wood.
A woman, working in front of a semi-subterranean house, is chopping kindling; another woman appears to be setting a small snare; men are using dog sleds to...
Title taken from caption. View of woman and child entering Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska, with another person partially visible at left. Signs on building read: "Anchorage International Airport" and "Passenger entrance."...
View of damaged buildings and clean-up operations in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. View includes damaged houses, a crane with the crane operator seen through the windshield, automobiles, Sign on the crane reads Chris Berg....