Caption: After a nose first crash during Wiley Post's round the world solo flight the Winnie Mae has been set upright and is ready to be repaired. The miners of Flat, Alaska, are taking apart the tripod that helped to set the airplane upright.
Caption: Wiley Post poses for a photograph just before taking off to resume his solo flight round the world. The Winnie Mae has just been repaired after hitting a rough patch of tailings at the airstrip in Flat, Alaska and crashing.
Caption: Miners from Flat, Alaska, set up a tripod for setting the Winnie Mae upright so that the airplane can be repaired. The Winnie Mae hit a patch of mining tailings, during Wiley Post's solo round the world flight, and nosed over. The Winnie...
Caption: Miners from Flat, Alaska, set up a tripod for setting the Winnie Mae upright so that the airplane can be repaired. The Winnie Mae hit a patch of mining tailings, during Wiley Post's solo round the world flight, and nosed over.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Inset: Aleutian Islands. Page 904 of Rand McNally & Company's Indexed atlas of the world. Text on verso (p. 903): Territory of Alaska. In color.
Relief shown by hachures. Shows steamer routes with distances. Inset: Extension of Aleutian Archipelago. Page 71 from Geographical Publishing Company's Handy reference atlas and gazetteer of the world. On verso (pg. 72): The Hawaiian Islands,...
Title from verso. Verso also reads, "Torn down about 1927 - Fort abandoned at time of World War 1917. I went to Seattle on the "Victoria" with one of the companies in 1917. Andrews." Verso signed C.L.A. Image shows a row of...
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Full caption reads:
"Joe Amarok, Eskimo leader from Nome, Alaska sprinkled water from the Bering Sea on the nose of the Clipper North Wind, first of Pan American World Airways scheduled DC-4s to arrive...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Inset: Aleutian Islands. Page 171 of Atlas of the world. Text and engraved illustrations on verso (p. 172): Sitka, Alaska. Green tint around edges of Alaska; remainder of map not colored. 23 x 30...
Title by indexer. Image shows the office building of the newspaper "Tanana News." Signs on the building also say: "Job Printing" and "Farthest North News Paper in the World. Tanana, Alaska." A man wearing a suit stands outside the building,...
Double hemisphere showing "Pars Borealis" and "Pars Australis". Relief shown pictorially. Double cordiform projection. Considered the most influential polar world map published in the sixteenth century; prototype for Mercator's double cordiform...
Shows north and south polar projections of the world. Relief shown pictorially. Southern Hemisphere illustrated with whale and ship; borders surrounding hemispheres illustrated with clouds, the Four Winds, fanciful creatures and vines. 42.4 x...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
Shows routes of various explorers. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. From: The Century atlas of the world. Insets: Spitzbergen -- Smith Sound and Robeson Channel -- Franz Josef Land. "No. 3." Text on verso...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Banner title: Indexed atlas of the world [Alaska]. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Indexed with districts, capes and points, islands, lakes, mountains, rivers and towns.. From Rand McNally & Co.'s Indexed map of the world. Includes...