Rex Thomas papers, 1946-1968.

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Rex Thomas papers, 1946-1968.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/298144286

The Rex Thomas Papers consist of slides, photographs, negatives, field notebooks and photograph logs, primarily documenting Thomas's work for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Sport Fish Division. The nearly 2700 slides include images of sea mammals, birds, plants, moose, and salmon, as well as scenes of Kodiak, Prince Wiliam Sound, the Aleutian Islands, the Alaska Peninsula, the Pribilof Islands, King Island, the Seward Peninsula, the Kobuk and lower Yukon Rivers, Interior Alaska, and Southeast Alaska, Baffin Island and Newfoundland in Canada, and Seattle, Washington. Also found among the slides are images of family and friends and their activities in Interior Alaska and the Fairbanks region.

1.40 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Thomas, Rex

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Rex Thomas was an Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist who was lost in the Beaufort Sea in 1969, during the course of his duties. From the description of Rex Thomas papers, 1946-1968. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). WorldCat record id: 298144286 ...

Alaska. Department of Fish and Game

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In 1959, the functions of Alaska Territorial Dept. of Fish and Game, Fish and Game Commission, and Fisheries Experimental Commission were abolished by session law (Chapter 64) and their functions were transferred to the newly created Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game. A Commissioner of Fish and Game, appointed by the governor, was its principal executive officer. The Department administers Alaska's commercial and sport fisheries, birds, game and fur-bearing animals, fees and licenses, trapping, fur-...