Capt. S.T.L. Whitlam collection, ca. 1930-1940, U.S.M.S. North Star scrapbook [graphic].

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Capt. S.T.L. Whitlam collection, ca. 1930-1940, U.S.M.S. North Star scrapbook [graphic].

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Scrap book maintained on board the U.S.M.S. North Star of the United States Maritime Service. Note from first page: Contributions of photos, clippings, et al are not only welcome, but expected. Includes photos of Captain S.T.L. Whitlam, Frank Bliss, director of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation Matanuska Colonization Project, 1935, photographer Otto Geist, and Jack Allman. Charcoal drawing of Captain Whitlam by Josephine Crumrine. Album contains press clippings about the preparations of the vessel North Star for an expedition to the Antarctic with supplies for the Byrd Party. Includes correspondence from Arthur Upicksoun and Harold L. Ickes.

1 scrapbook (81 b&w photographs, clippings and correspondence)

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Matanuska Valley Colony (Alaska)

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The organization was established in 1935 under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration's program of organizing rural rehabilitation organizations in the United States. It was the administrative agency over the Matanuska Valley Colony in Palmer and was responsible for providing land and houses for the colonists, and for governing the colony. From the description of Photograph album, 1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42926795 ...

Byrd Antarctic Expedition (3rd : 1939-1941)

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United States Maritime Service

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North Star (Supply ship)

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Whitlam, S. T. L.

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