Title from indexer. Photograph shows a 1930 Keystone Loening K-84 "Commuter" airplane being launched from a beach. There are men standing around it. The nose of the airplane reads "Black Bear Brand and Seattle Hdw. Co." The tail number reads...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a 1930 Keystone Loening K-84 "Commuter" airplane being launched from a beach. There are men standing around it. The nose of the airplane reads "Black Bear Brand and Seattle Hdw. Co." The tail number reads...
51 second, black and white, silent film clip of the ferry M/V Kalakala (meaning "Flying Bird" in Chinook). Originally launched as the Peralta on October 14, 1926, in San Francisco, she burned to the waterline on May 6, 1933. The intact hull was...
Title taken from back of photograph. Cataloguer's note: Otto W. Geist came to Alaska in 1923. Born in Bavaria Austria, he was a veteran of the German army as well as the U.S. Army. He was a mechanic and a skilled truck driver before he...
Title taken from caption. " U.S. Revenue Cutter 'Rush' at Valdez, Alaska." Cataloguer's note: Named in honor of Richard Rush (1780 - 1859) who was a statesman and a diplomat, during the administrations of Adams and John Quincy Adams. The...
Title taken from caption. Aerial view of an Alaskan Air Command radar installation. From verso: "HQ AAC -- Early warning -- BMEWS Site 2, at Clear, Alaska boasts three AN/FPS-50 fixed detection radars. Clear was the second operational site in the...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission dredge "Sperm" being launched from dock on Knik Arm, at Anchorage, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G869. Sliding down the ways." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's...
Title taken from front. Alaska Engineering Commmission dredge "Sperm" being launched on Knik Arm, Anchorage, Alaska at low tide. Also from front: "A.E.C. G868." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G868. May 25, 1918....
Launched in 1903, the USS MARYLAND participated in survey missions to Alaska in 1912 and 1913; later, at the beginning of World War I, she was renamed the FREDERICK