Captain Lloyd H. "Kinky" Bayers collection, 1898-1967 (bulk 1924-1967).

ArchivalResource

Captain Lloyd H. "Kinky" Bayers collection, 1898-1967 (bulk 1924-1967).

Includes scrapbooks, clippings, postcard albums, photograph albums, card file indexes of people and subjects, and marine files;

57 linear ft.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7487452

Alaska State Library

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Bayers, Lloyd H. (Kinky), 1911-1968,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ff71nx (person)

Lloyd H. "Kinky" Bayers was born July 6, 1911, in Juneau to Vera Soboleff Bayers and Harry "Tay Bayers" of Juneau. Seaman, captain, political activist, marine historian, and collector, he worked as a deckhand on the mail boat "Estebeth," for the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co., purchased the "M.V. Forester" for towing, freighting and charter work, became captain of the fish packer "Pelican," and joined the U.S. Army Transport Service in 1941. After the war, he worked for the Water Resources Divisi...