Lloyd Jarman photograph collection, ca. 1929-1980's.
Title:
Lloyd Jarman photograph collection, ca. 1929-1980's.
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
12 albums (circa 1,200 photographs) : black and white ; 34 x 27 cm. or smaller + 2 videocassettes (VHS and beta)
General Note:
Manuscripts form a separate collection, MS 163.
In the Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, P.O. Box 110571, Juneau, AK 99811-0571.
Abstract:
Most incidents and events from Alaska's aviation history between 1929 and 1940 are covered in Jarman's images. His detailed annotations include names of commercial and bush pilots and bush planes, World War II bombers, famous pilots and flights, passengers, detailed aircraft information, airplane crashes, airlines, airports and hangars mainly around Southeast and remote Alaska but also in Washington State and Africa.
Subject Term:
Ownership:
Created and collected by Lloyd Jarman.
Biographical/Historical Data:
Lloyd R. Jarman was born in Juneau, Alaska in 1916 and loved airplanes from an early age. He took his first plane ride with R.E. "Bob" Ellis of Alaska Washington Airways and soon went to work for them doing odd jobs around the hangars. While still a teenager, he went to work for Alaska Washington Airways as a full-time flight mechanic, then worked for Alaska Southern Airways, Pacific Alaska Airways, Alaska Air Transport, Marine Airways and occasionally for other smaller airlines. He flew with many well known bush pilots and rescue and mercy missions included him as mechanic, as mechanics often flew with the pilots in the early days of aviation. Jarman planned to become a pilot, but crashed a Lockheed-Vega at Pinta Bay, Chichagoff Island in Oct. 1934 and crushed his pelvic bone and could not pass physical for a commercial pilot's license. Shell Simmons taught him to fly in 1935 and he continued to work as a flight mechanic and also assembled fighter planes in North Africa during WWII. Jarman took a camera wherever he went and photographed aviation history in Southeast Alaska from 1929-1940. He died in Seattle in 1996 at age 79. [From: "Lloyd R. Jarman," in "Gastineau Channel Memories," by Jim Ruotsala; and "Bush Pilots in Southeastern Alaska," by Archie Satterfield, Lloyd Jarman.].
Restrictions on Access:
Collection is open to research.
Variant Title:
Alaska aviation
Contents:
Joe Crosson -- Mary Joyce -- Ray Renshaw -- Shell Simmons -- Bob Reeves -- Will Rogers -- Mike Fenster -- Harold Gillam -- Jim Dotson -- Tony Schwamm -- Charles Lindbergh -- Anne Lindbergh -- Floyd Keadle -- Frank Hatcher -- Frank Dorbrandt -- Don Glass.