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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Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "Charlie Ayapana, a Little Diomede man married to a Point Hope woman, was by far the most skilled ivory-carver in town." A small child is peeking around the corner, watching the work.
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...