Title taken from front. The steamer Bertha is wrecked and on fire in Uyak Bay, Kodiak, Alaska. Unidentified photographers mark in the left hand corner. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title supplied by cataloger. Close-up of Eielson's wrecked airplane covered in snow; wing and part of plane's markings, N.C. 10002, are visible. Plane identification taken from the book Polar Pilot by Dorothy G. Page, pg. 382.
Title supplied by cataloger. Photo of the wing of a wrecked airplane protruding from deep snow. Considering the context of the collection and the identification made in UAF-2006-102-7, this is probably the wreckage of Carl Ben Eielson's...
Winter & Pond postcard showing the vessel the "Princess May" completely out of the water, shipwrecked on Sentinel Island. Text on image reads "Princess May" wrecked on Sentinel Island, Alaska August 5th, 1910". Photographer's number 394. ...
Glacier Photo Service, Seward, Alaska is stamped on the back of the photograph. Photo of the wrecked S.S. Yukon with people on deck waiting to be rescued near Seward, Alaska. Original size of photograph: 4" x 5".
Pilot chart of the Yukon River, showing wood storage sites and the amount of wood, cabins, villages, gravesites, sawmills, mines and creeks along the riverbanks. Sand bars and various features of the river are drawn in, and a dashed line indicates...
These 45 photographs focus on the Bering Strait region. The images include scenes from King Island and Little Diomede Island, Alaska, and views of the Chukchi Peninsula and Chukchi people. Many of the photographs depict the schooner "Casco," a...
Title from image. Photograph of the crew of wrecked whaler North Star at the Point Barrow Telegraph Station. Visible is the telegraph station, and tents for the crew. [Very poor quality original.] Caption reads: "Crew of wrecker whaler "North...
Title from verso. Photograph of bombing damage from a U.S. air raid on Japanese forces on Kiska Island. Verso reads: "This photo, released in Washington today, shows columns of smoke rising from Japanese installations on Kiska Island in...
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...
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...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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43 second, color/black & white/silent film clip of a wrecked Dickson Bering Sea Airways Waco biplane. A Woodley Airways aircraft is also seen later in the film clip.
Title taken from caption. " U.S. Revenue Cutter 'Rush' at Valdez, Alaska." Cataloguer's note: Named in honor of Richard Rush (1780 - 1859) who was a statesman and a diplomat, during the administrations of Adams and John Quincy Adams. The...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Junior Red Cross boxes brought smiles of delight to the faces of Aleut children in the Red Cross shelter at Camp Denali while plans were being made for their return to Old Harbor. Gift...
Title supplied by cataloger. Airplane wreckage being pulled from snow. Men appear to be digging around a large part of a wrecked plane. Photo identification markings are visisble in bottom right hand corner appear to read, in Russian, "Foto -...