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B2022.005.249
[a group of people in western and Indigenous dress boarding a Wien Alaska Airlines airplane]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Wien Alaska Airlines, airplane
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
b2012.006.954
[two Alaska Native children wearing fur-trimmed parkas standing next to Wien Airlines terminal building; no date]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B2012.006
B1985.027.1890
[Sigurd Wien standing in front of airplane in Alaska. 1930's?]
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1994.022.393Z.12
(airplanes)(Cesna NC 7107 Wien Alaska Airways US mail)
Keywords: airplane
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B2015.014.129
[man standing next to Wien Alaska Airlines airplane tail number 10002 with skis, supplies piled on tundra, Hamilton H-45?]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B2015.014
B1994.022.393Z.13
(airplanes- Wien Alaska Airways US mail Cessna NC 7107)
Keywords: airplane
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1985.027.2435
[from verso] Eskimos - hunting; photograph by James Leveque, Wien Alaska Airlines [man carrying pole walking on sea ice; large opening in ice; likely 1950s]
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1985.027.2446
[from verso:] Eskimos - hunting; James Leveque, Wien Alaska Airlines [man, woman, and child removing blubber from beluga whale; woman using ulu, beach]
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1985.027.1589
Dinah Franson, Point Hope. [stamp] Wien Air Alaska. Photo by Frank Whaley, Fairbanks, Alaska
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B2017.024.2670
Nome aviation, July 1983 [gate agent and passengers at Wien Air Alaska door in Nome]
Collection: B2017.024
B2006.023.3769.jpg
Finish Iditarod 1976 Anchorage to Nome Wien Air Alaska. [Burled arch, Front Street, Nome]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 3001-3999
B2006.023.6233.jpg
Finish Iditarod 1975 Anchorage to Nome Wien Air Alaska [burled arch, Front Street, Nome]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B2006.023.3769
Finish Iditarod 1976 Anchorage to Nome Wien Air Alaska. [Burled arch, Front Street, Nome]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2006.023.6233
Finish Iditarod 1975 Anchorage to Nome Wien Air Alaska [burled arch, Front Street, Nome]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1989.016.1760
[Fairbanks street scene, bird's eye view of Cushman Street, with automobiles, pedestrians, and businesses including Burns Apartments, Cooperative Drugs, Empress Theater, [Wr?]echter Meats, Lavery's, Model Cafe, Fairbanks Cigar Store, and Wien Alaska Airlines]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.2865.jpg
Burled arch, Front Street, Nome. Banner reads: Finish, Iditarod 1976 Anchorage to Nome Wien Air Alaska.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B2006.023.2875.jpg
Burled arch, Front Street, Nome. Banner reads: Finish, Iditarod 1976 Anchorage to Nome Wien Air Alaska.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B2006.023.2865
Burled arch, Front Street, Nome. Banner reads: Finish, Iditarod 1976 Anchorage to Nome Wien Air Alaska.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2006.023.2875
Burled arch, Front Street, Nome. Banner reads: Finish, Iditarod 1976 Anchorage to Nome Wien Air Alaska.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1998.014.1.1099
N9 2nd and Cushman St; Fairbanks, Alaska (1946 postcard) [copy neg; nighttime view of intersection, lights strung across streets, automobiles, storefronts, some sgns legible: Curios and tourist information shop at left, dentist; Beauty Shoppe, Wien Alaska Airlines; stop sign above sreet]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.023.2454.jpg
Banner reading: Finish Iditarod 1976 Anchorage to Nome Wien Air Alaska. Hanging over burled arch, Front Street, Nome.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B2006.023.7496.jpg
[Burled arch on Front St. in Nome, end of the Iditarod Race. Banner: FInish Iditarod 1976 Anchorage to Nome, Wien Air Alaska]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 7000-7999
B2006.023.2454
Banner reading: Finish Iditarod 1976 Anchorage to Nome Wien Air Alaska. Hanging over burled arch, Front Street, Nome.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2006.023.7496
[Burled arch on Front St. in Nome, end of the Iditarod Race. Banner: FInish Iditarod 1976 Anchorage to Nome, Wien Air Alaska]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1998.014.1.1696
(T58 2nd Ave. Fairbanks, Alaska, 1948 postcard, 30) Street scene at 2nd and Lacey St, businesses, 10 - 15 cent Store, The Sportsman, Kaye's Fine Furs, Empress (?), Daily News Miner, Cleaners, Wien Alaska Airlines, Bar, Cafe, Cottage Bar, Cleaners, people, women, sidewalks, automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1985.027.1588
Eskimo lady pegging out large seal skins ro dry at Point Hope where we have our Trail Blazer tour. [stamp] Wien Air Alaska, Photo by Frank Whaley, Fairbanks, Alaska
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1988.003.190
Kayac races, Fourth of July, Kotzebue, Alaska. FHW 1 [Inupiat man paddling kayak along beach, Wien Hotel and floatplane in background]
Keywords: recreation, boats, aviation
Collection: B1988.003 Ingalls Collection
B2017.024.3352
June 1971, Northern Alaska [men, women, children gathered on tarmac near Wien Consolidated Boeing 737 N4906; man carrying luggage]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3329
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [spring breakup; snowmachines with wood sleds parked near airstrip; people looking toward Wien Air Alaska Fairchild F-27 aircraft; sealskin coat; construction equipment; mountains in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B2006.023.3912.jpg
Joe Redington, Sr., at finish line, Nome. Finish Iditarod 1976 Anchorage to Nome Wien Air Alaska. [Banner over burled arch, Front Street, Nome]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 3001-3999
B2006.023.3912
Joe Redington, Sr., at finish line, Nome. Finish Iditarod 1976 Anchorage to Nome Wien Air Alaska. [Banner over burled arch, Front Street, Nome]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1998.014.1.1831
T128 2nd & Lacey Streets, Fairbanks, Alaska [street scene; man walking at right; bicycles parked on sidewalk; automobiles; businesses: Lacey Street Theatre with movie poster for Sands of Iwo Jima (released 1949), Peerless Coffee Shop, Lucille’s Apparel, Daily News Miner, Monsey’s Pantorium cleaners, Wien Alaska Airlines, Liquor, Drugs; flags hanging over street]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1985.027.1590
Point Hope whaling captain Amos Lane standing by the jawbone of a large bowhead whale he had taken. The whale feast time is about June 10th each year. [stamp] Wien Air Alaska. Photo by Frank Whaley, Fairbanks, Alaska
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1998.014.1.1829
T127 2nd Ave, Fairbanks, Alaska [Street scene; people on sidewalks; automobiles, businesses: Maddux Jeweler, Alaska, Pan American World Airways, Kayes, Curios, Café, Peerless Coffee Shop, Lucille’s Apparel, Daily News Miner, Monsey’s Pantorium cleaners, Wien Alaska Airlines, Liquor, Drugs, Wyman’s, Café, Model Café; movie poster for Sands of Iwo Jima (released in 1949); flags hanging over street; smoke stacks in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1985.027.2437
[from verso] Eskimos - hunting; Wien Air Alaska photo by Frank Whaley [two children stand in shallow water holding what is likely a dead seal; shore ice and sea ice in background; one child wears a construction helmet]
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1989.016.735.5
Anchorage, Alaska. Bragaw's [first flight Anchorage - Fairbanks, July 1924. Airplane "Anchorage" with tail number T4656. Man standing on airplane is Bill Yunker. Man on left against wing is Noel Wien. Cf. B1965.002.13]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.735.1
Aviation Field, Anchorage, Alaska [first flight Anchorage - Fairbanks, July 1924. Airplane "Anchorage" with tail number T4656. Man standing on airplane is Bill Yunker. Man on left against wing is Noel Wien. Cf. B1965.002.13]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1964.001.473
From verso: 1923 Album (John Urban) June 5, 1925. Rickert’s Field, Fairbanks, Alaska [Fairbanks Airplane Corp. Per R.L. Stevens: Fokker FIII with 240 HP BWM motor ready for takeoff for Nome, AK, with 4 passengers and 500 lbs. of baggage, more than previous planes could haul. Ralph Wien is 8th from left with pilot Noel Wien next. The uniformed man is an Alaska Railroad conductor emphasizing the plush Pullman atmosphere of the big plane. This was the first commercial flight from Fairbanks to Nome.]
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B1957.007.9
(Russ Merrill's Travel Air 7000 (he was killed in this plane) on the right Noel Wien's Stinson Detroiter (Wien Alaska Airways), taken at Fairbanks) [Anchorage Air Transport plane with "Anchorage No. 1" painted on side, crowd standing in front of planes at Weeks Field]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1959.x_001 Government Hill Housing Projects / B1957_007 Russel Hyde Merrill Papers
B1998.014.1.1833
{T129 Fairbanks (at 2nd & Cushman)} [actually this is the intersection of 2nd and Lacey Street; people crossing street, men, women on sidewalk; automobiles; bicycles; flags strung over street; businesses: Lacey Street Theatre, Peerless Coffee Shop, Lucille’s Apparel, Daily News Miner, Monsey’s Pantorium Cleaners, Wien Alaska Airlines, Liquor, Drugs, Wyman’s, Café, Model Café; movie poster for Sands of Iwo Jima (released in 1949); smoke stacks; man climbing on outside of delivery truck]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley