(4:49 min.) (02 of 09) 2. Important issues. Les was interested in statehood and getting a fair share for Alaska; he was less interested in specific issues. Proponents of statehood wanted to get out from control of the Department of the...
(03 of 09) 3. Coal; constitutional convention Coal was needed in Fairbanks and was shipped to Korea. Les believed that he was in the middle in terms of political knowledge. He believed there was some political maneuverings to make Bill...
(3:43 min.) (15 of 28) 15. Getting air time
George and a man named Grant Ruth trained as flight mechanics. George did some flying of the DC3's. He wanted to fly other aircraft but there were few civilian planes available for sale or...
(4:26 min.) (19 of 28) 19. Women pilots Virginia wanted corrections made on a display at the airport, adding mention of early women pilots in Alaska. Virginia speaks of things absent in her life and how becoming a Jehovah's Witness helped.
(3:09 min.) (27 of 28) 27. Pilot for Governor Egan George used to fly Gov. Egan back and forth to Juneau. Egan liked George's harmonica version of "Springtime in the Rockies". George then flew the Seattle run, which he had always wanted to...
06 Crash took six weeks to repair aircraft (4:58 min.)(06 of 09)
In the mean time took a job teaching in McGrath that keep her busy through the winter. In the spring went to lower 48 to get an airplane. In Seattle went to Northern Commercial...
Caption reads: "Squaw wanted." Photographer's number: D3. Cataloger's note: An Alaska Native youth is seen here washing clothes on a wash board; drying clothes are hanging on the tent ropes behind him.
Title from caption. "(c) Winter - [Pond] Co. First aeroplane flight over Juneau, Alaska. August 16, 1920." Verso reads: "NY / Nome Black Wolf Squadron flew over [Juenau]. Pilot Kirkpatrick dropped packet for [Government]. For Mrs. Loftus - We...
Title taken from caption. View of two boats of men using a smaller net to catch herring held in a larger net, Kodiak Island, Alaska. An empty boat is waiting for a load of herring. Also from caption: "Herring are caught outside and kept for several...
Title taken from caption. View of two boats of men using a smaller net to catch herring held in a larger net, Kodiak Island, Alaska. An empty boat can be seen waiting for a load of herring. In the background there can be seen a two masted ship at...
Title taken from caption. View of five men on the beach pulling in the herring nets. The town of Kodiak, Alaska and at least six fishing boats can be seen in the background. Also from caption: "Herring are caught outside and kept for several days...
Title taken from caption. View of four men gathering the herring out of a large net, using a smaller net and loading it into their boat, Kodiak Island, Alaska. Also from caption: "Herring are caught outside and kept for several days in the pound...
Title taken from caption. View of Ales Hrdlicka and Sidney Conner photographing a slate sidewalk. From May's journal, dated June 22nd: "In the afternoon I came across a slate flagstone walk, which the Doctor wanted exposed. This took considerable...
John Jacobson, Martha Stowell, and two unidentified men unloading lumber from a trailer on a USO outing. From caption: "Fire Lake - the USO wanted to buy an old cabin on the lake and we spent several weekends on spring working hard to fix it up. ...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.