Western Airlines photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1926-1969.

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Western Airlines photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1926-1969.

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Photographs used by Western Airlines to promote travel to Alaska. Included are airplanes dating from the 1920s to the 1960s, communities and towns around Southeast Alaska, totem poles and carving, boats, ships, mining. An aerial view of the old Douglas Island bridge is included.

151 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7793803

Alaska State Library

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Western Air Express flew its first flight in a Douglas M-2 airplane, April 1926. It was awarded the US Postal Service contract to fly the mail from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. In 1928, the Guggenheim Foundation chose Western to set up a model airway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. They purchased 3, Fokker F-10 Trimoters with comfortable wicker chairs and provided meal service to passengers. Western developed the first air-to-ground radio, in cooperation with Thorpe Hiscock of Boeing, i...