Title from finding aid. Photograph shows an airplane with pontoons crashed on the tundra. Caption from finding aid reads "Crashed airplane". See also: UAF-2010-25-2. Location is unknown.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows an airplane with pontoons crashed on the tundra. Caption from finding aid reads "Float plane crashed on Tundra in 1970s". Registration number on airplane is N-715. See also: UAF-2010-25-1. Location...
Caption reads: "Mukpie - Point Barrow Eskimo Girl. Youngest person aboard, and one of the survivors of the S.S. "Karluk." Canadian-Arctic (Stefansson) Expedition." A young girl stands outside, wearing a fur parka,...
Photograph of the crash of the Winnie Mae in Flat, Alaska. Caption: Wiley Post, during the first round the world solo flight, crashed during a landing at Flat, Alaska. In this photo miners from Flat set up a tripod wench to lift the plane.
Caption: Miners from Flat, Alaska, set up a tripod for setting the Winnie Mae upright so that the airplane can be repaired. The Winnie Mae hit a patch of mining tailings, during Wiley Post's solo round the world flight, and nosed over. The Winnie...
Title from verso. Photograph of a downed Japanese warplane with a group of people analyzing the wreckage. Verso reads: "Jap [ Japanese ] plane down in the Aleutians. Aleutians Islands -- This Jap [ Japanese ] warplane is shown after it...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "The Monopoly strategists are Billy Weber and his wife, Assistant schoolteacher Alice Tooyak Downey Weber, daughter of Beatrice Vincent and Peel Tooyak, widow of Chester Downey, who was killed...
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...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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05 A plane of her own (5:30 min.) (05 of 09) There was no flight instruction in the winter so Pearl was laid off. She spent the winter of 1945 at the University at Fairbanks. She saw the Russian pilots flying the lend lease planes. Margaret...
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 supplied by cataloger. An airplane with wing markings "NC190H" crashed in front of a house that is visible in the right side background. There is chimney smoke visible in the left hand background.
Title taken from verso. View of memorial to Will Rogers in building at Barrow, Alaska, with Rogers' photograph, Lockheed airline logo, and registration number of airplane in which he and Wiley Post crashed. Signs on wall read: "Lockheed" and...
Title supplied by cataloger. Rescue and Reclamation. Granite Mountain. Crashed aircraft, yellow inflatable structure, and Army helicopter in background. Joe Redington Sr. worked with the Army to recover materials from site. Original format: 35mm...