(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...
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
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...
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....
Nels H. Lawson, II poses with Michael Miller for promoting the Sitka Tribal Tours (Enterprises) in the Sitka Historical National Park "Totem Park" for the 1994 season.
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...
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...
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 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 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 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...
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 tour bus for Prudhoe Bay Tours (run by Wien Consolidated Airlines) at oil drilling rig at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, with tourists at right. 1970-1973. Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. View of passengers and bus driver standing near tour bus at Worthington Glacier, Alaska. Sign on bus reads: "Alaska Hyway Tours, Inc." 1960's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. View of women ice fishing for tom cod at Kotzebue, Alaska, with fish on ice and puppies in background. Also from verso: "One of the features of Eskimoland Snowtime Tours." 1960's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original...