View of Wien Arctic Tours bus parked in front of Wien Alaska Airlines building in Nome, Alaska. Building next door houses The Glue Pot Soda Fountain and Ice Cream Parlor. 1960-1966? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
View of men on a tour aboard Riverboat Discovery Tour at Fairbanks, Alaska. Sign on boat reads: "Welcome aboard the goodship ... Discovery." 1960's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
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...
(4:39 min.) (02 of 28) 2. Early years -- parental influences Father flew in World War I [WWI] and after war, he bought Navy surplus flying boat and flew on the weekends. His mother also got interested in aviation and they flew weekend tours...
Title taken from caption. "9282 -- (32) It frequently happens that two men, partners, will wander a considerable distance from any settlement and construct their cabin in the primitive wilds of Alaska. From this center they revolve in their...
Title by indexer. A man wearing traditional Alaskan Native parka with the patch reading "Wien Arctic Tours". He is holding up a large Wien Consolidated poster reading: "Join the midnight sun set in Alaska. Wien Consolidated. Alaska's first...
Title by indexer. A man wearing a white parka (bearing the words "Wien Arctic Tours") looks at brochures. The walls and tables are covered with promotional posters and or brochures of Alaska; many of the pictures show fishing scenes. A Wien...
Title taken from caption. View of the USS Surveyor pulling into the dock at Kodiak, Alaska. Caption also says: "The USS Surveyor coming into dock at Kodiak, a war veteran wearing a chevron." A chevron is painted on the smoke stack of the ship....
Title taken from caption. View of the USS Surveyor coming into dock at Kodiak, Alaska. Men can be seen on the decks of the ship as well as waiting on the docks. The United States flag is flying from the rear of the ship and a chevron is painted on...
A group of Cordova Airlines passengers gets into jeeps at the May Creek Airfield, prior to exploring McCarthy, Alaska and the Kennecott Copper Mine operations in Kennicott. From caption: "This is our cavalcade of tourists at the May Creek airfield...
A group of tourist walk along railroad tracks in Kennecott Copper Mine area in Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "From 1913 to 1938 these tracks were used to haul copper ore from Kennecott [sic] down to McCarthy and then on to Cordova, where it was...
Wilma Knox looks at a few playing cards and an empty cigar box left on a table in the recreation hall in the abandoned copper mining town of Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "In the huge recreation hall where the miners went to play cards in the...
Wilma Knox leans on a bridge in McCarthy, Alaska, with buildings in the background. From caption: "It was very early morning in McCarthy when Bob got this picture of me leaning over the old bridge at the edge of town. Notice the beautiful white...
Three cars are lined up outside a house in the ghost town of McCarthy, Alaska. Wilma Knox is examining the third car, a jeep. The middle car was President Warren G. Harding's touring car when he visited Valdez, Alaska. From caption: "The car in the...
Interior of the bar in McCarthy, Alaska, where a bartender pours drinks for the tourists standing at the bar. A Great Northern Railway calendar is visible on the far wall. From caption: "Just a shot of the old bar where we had a beer before supper....
Wilma Knox walks down a street in the ghost town of McCarthy, Alaska. From caption: "Bob caught me from behind as I strolled down past what must have been some kind of recreation hall. We looked in the window and there were seats inside and a large...
Tourists look at the Model T Ford railroad car and open-air cars, their "express", at the old train depot in McCarthy, Alaska. Wilma Knox is in the foreground. From caption: "Our passengers are arriving at the depot to board the "express" which...