(4:48 min.) (09 of 24) 09 Food and health on-board the ship Beef served frequently and caused complaints. Sometimes it was the waiter's fault, sometimes it was the traveler's fault, and sometimes it was the sea. The nurse had to help lots...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
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...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
(4:20 min.) (09 of 09) 9. After the convention. Les played a very valuable role in bringing people together. There was great camaraderie among the delegates. Les went home and showed his father a copy of the constitution. His father read...
(4:57 min.) (05 of 28) 5. Parents flying His father got out of the weekend flying business and flying for the Naval Reserve. He died in a flight during the 1930's. His mother could fly but wasn't licensed. George took awhile to get back...
09 Flew that summer (1946) (4:15 min,) (09 of 09)
Got married soon thereafter, husband owned a trading post in McGrath. Had a son and then husband got sick and died; left her with a child and a trading post to run. Stayed in McGrath until 1953.
Title taken from caption. "John Folger - Discoverer, Prospector, Trapper. Innoko River (Folger Creek) 1884. Discovered Gold in Koyukuk (Tramway Bar) 1894. Trapped on Kantishna River. Died There in 1931. Made an Early Arrival on Yukon River,...
Title taken from caption. "9272 -- (31) On March 28, 1898, the government reindeer relief expedition landed at Haines Mission. The herd then numbered 525.
From the date of the landing of the deer at Haines Mission the story of the...
Title taken from caption. " Summer of 1966 or 1968. Frank Miller in front of his home; (Road house, store and post office). In 1972 it was all gone. Frank died a few years ago and the house is completely burned. Note: Historical location of...
Title taken from caption. "Copyright, 1897, By Keppler & Schwarzmann J. Ottmann Lith. [Lithography] Co. Puck Building New York". This color cartoon drawing/poster captures a large man towering over a mining site while digging and seemingly...
Title from verso. A close-up shot of a man with closely cropped hair, dressed in suit and tie, head slightly turned towards the camera. He may be an employee of Wien Airlines.
After a message from Marty Wells, Don Everly's daughter, in...
Title by cataloger. Verso reads: "Larry Larson? Fuzz Rogers?"
Identified as Larry Larson by grandson Kent Lyman of Huntsville, Alabama. Larson died in a plane crash shortly before the birth of his daughter Ruth in June, 1940.
Title from caption. Photograph with the caption: Mr. Wm. Munson, Proprietor of Munson's Roadhouse, mouth of Salchaket river, 40 miles from Fairbanks, feeding a four month old moose calf. (Mr Munson died in 1913.) There are several chickens...
Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "Eskimo woman dressing salmon, Naknek. This woman was away from the village at the time the Flu struck otherwise she would have died for the epidemic carried off practically every adult native in the...
Mary Alice Ferry Diener with man mistakenly identified as George Washington Carmack in Ketchikan, Alaska. George Washington Carmack died in 1922, seven years before picture was taken. From verso: "Aug. 16, 1929. Mary Alice with George Washington...