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/].
From the description of Alaska Transportation Museum photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1905-1970's. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 54783540
