Sam O. White photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1922-1960.

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Sam O. White photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1922-1960.

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Many of the views in this collection were used to illustrate Sam White's story of his work in Alaska, serialized in the ALASKA SPORTSMAN magazine from Dec. 1964 through Nov. 1965. Most depict airplanes and villages in interior Alaska. Other subjects include Alaska Game Commission personnel and offices, airplane crashes, bush planes and bush pilots, the Wien brothers (Merrill, Sig and Noel) and Alaskan localities such as Ft. Yukon, Chandalar (now Venetie), Tanana Crossing and Tonzana.

95 images : b&w.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7760809

Alaska State Library

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White, Sam.

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Sam White was born in 1891, one of nine children. He arrived in Alaska in 1922 as a member of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey team working for the International Boundary Survey before and after two years in the U.S. Army during World War I. Later he became an agent (game warden) for the Alaska Game Commission in 1927 and worked out of Fairbanks. He patroled the area northeast of Fairbanks by dog sled initially but in 1928 he learned to fly and became the first Alaska Game Commission warden to...

Wien Air Alaska

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