Title and caption taken from verso of UAF-1970-11-51, from which this image differs only slightly. Photograph of soldiers carrying ammunition from a protected position. Verso reads: "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu...
39 second film clip, black & white/silent, of a small, single-propeller airplane landing and taxiing to a hanger. A person on a stretcher is transferred from the airplane to an ambulance with "de la Vergne" written on the side..
Title from caption. Image is a postcard. Image shows a bridge over some rushing rapids on a river. Caption reads "857 Whirlpool Rapids". The appears to be the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge on the Niagara River. Verso reads "11am. July 22. Dear...
Title from caption. Photograph of a man with a bear feeding nearby. Caption reads: "This bear used to come down from the mountains back of Skaguay several times a week to be fed near the railroad boarding house so no one molested or tried...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "David Frankson was the Point Hope postmaster. (Mail arrived by air three times a week from Kotzebue, weather permitting and pilot willing. When Bishop Gordon was priest-in-charge at Point...
Title by indexer. Four boys with toy pistols and holsters. Caption indicates that the boys are "showing the influence of the movies featured every week or so in the schoolhouse."
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...
14 min, 10 sec film clip, color/sound. From voice-over introduction: "This week's edition of The Alaska Report features a recent floor statement by Senator Stevens on recent attmpts to rewrite the history of the United States involvement in...
05 A plane of her own (5:30 min.) (05 of 09) There was no flight instruction in the winter so Pearl was laid off. She spent the winter of 1945 at the University at Fairbanks. She saw the Russian pilots flying the lend lease planes. Margaret...
(6:58 min.) (16 of 28) 16. Virginia speaks about flight instruction
Virginia's first solo flight was on December 7, 1941, but since all flights were canceled that day she had to solo again a week later. Flights were cancelled because of...
"Sister Mary Lucca, Administrator of St. Ann's Hospital in Juneau receives a copy of Egan's proclamation designating May 8-14 as Hospital Week in Alaska."
Verso: Ann Chambers, Nome's Midnight Sun Festival Queen, snips the ribbon at the dedication ceremonies held at the Federal Aviation Agency's new Flight Service Station building at the Nome airport. Assisting with the ribbon cutting are (L) James...
Title by cataloguer. "Mining short course." "The Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines along with the standard four year courses began offering short courses. The ten weeks short noncredit courses were offered between late November...