Alaska Transportation Museum photograph collection, ca. 1905-1970's.
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Alaska Transportation Museum photograph collection, ca. 1905-1970's.
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Physical Description:
circa 725 photographs : black and white.
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In the Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, P.O. Box 110571, Juneau, AK 99811-0571.
Abstract:
Includes images of pilots, airplanes, airplane accidents, airports, airlines and railroads. The collection contains an image of Irene Ryan, first woman to solo in Alaska. Approximately 125 images are mounted on museum boards, as they were received, and are not numbered. Many images are not Alaskan. John W. Klingbeil photographed some of the images.
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Ownership:
These images were placed in the Historical Collections after the Alaska Transportation Museum was destroyed by fire.
Biographical/Historical Data:
The Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry began in 1967 as the Air Progress Museum in Anchorage, a small collection of Alaskan transportation artifacts and six retired railroad cars gathered for the Alaska Purchase Centennial Celebration. Fire forced the museum to close in 1973 and many of the images were transferred to the Alaska Historical Collections. Several years later local residents arranged for the remains of the museum's collection, charred aircraft and the Centennial Train to be moved to Palmer and in 1976 its name was changed to "The Transportation Museum of Alaska." The Museum moved to Wasilla in 1992. At one time funded by the State, the Museum is a private, nonprofit corporation with a mission to collect, restore, exhibit and preserve Alaska transportation and industrial history, from Eskimo skin boats to jet aircraft. [From: The Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry web site, accessed 23 March 2004: http://www.museumofalaska.org/].
Restrictions on Access:
Collection is open to research.