All aboard for school.
Collection Name
Kay J. Kennedy Aviation photograph Collection
Identifier
UAF-1991-98-683
Title
All aboard for school .
Description
Title from verso .[All aboard for school . From the Alaska arctic , nearly 600 students are gathered from 40 remote villages and fish camps , each fall to fly to Fairbanks and Juneau , heading for high schools and colleges.] Students boarding a Wien Air Alaska at Shungnak Alaska . Polatis [Polat is?] porter . The airport is a river sand bar in front of the town . Wien Air Alaska Photo by Frank Whaley Fairbanks , Alaska. " Identifications made by Sally Custer , Neal and Margaret Sheldon , Edna Commack , Josie Woods , Robert Lee , and Mildred Black , elders from Shungnak , Alaska : L-R : Lena Commack Coffee (climbing into plane) , George Cleveland Sr. , Genevieve Douglas Norris , Lottie Tickett , Virginia Douglas Commack . photo was taken on the sandbar near Shungnak . They would then fly to Dahl Creek near Kobuk where there was a bigger airstrip . They were going to Chemawa , Oregon for boarding school .Charles Mac Kay has identified the model and manufacturer of many aircraft on our website he has identified this one is a Pilatus Turbo Porter PC-6 , and it has production number 569 .
Creator
Whaley, Frank
Subject.TGM
Passengers Air travel Clothing & dress Porters Luggage Aircraft Airplanes Girls Teenagers Students Bags Indigenous peoples Air pilots
Subject.Local
Alaska Natives--Northern Alaska--Inupiaq
Personal Name
Coffee, Lena Commack Cleveland, George, Sr. Norris, Genevieve Douglas Tickett, Lottie Commack, Virginia Douglas
Corporate Name
Wien Alaska Airlines
Location
Shungnak (Alaska)
Region
Northern Alaska
Time Period
1939 to 1959 1959 and later
Date
1945 - 1968 ?
Type
Image (Photographs)
Ordering & Use
For information on ordering and using this material: http://library.uaf.edu/order-photos
Holding Institution
Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.
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