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Box PCA 303

 Container

Contains 142 Results:

The Rt. Rev. William J. Gordon, Episcopal Bishop of Alaska, fueling his Cessna 180.

 Item — Box: PCA 303
Identifier: ASL-P303-111
Scope and Contents

The Bishop's headquarters were in Fairbanks and he flew all over the state visiting missions and clergy.

Dates: 1956-1963
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 303, Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide Collection, 1956-1963

The Rev. Norman Elliott, who at this time was the Anchorage deacon to Bishop Gordon and also a pilot.

 Item — Box: PCA 303
Identifier: ASL-P303-112
Scope and Contents

The diocese owned two planes, the one flown by Bishop Gordon and this Piper Cub. He is presently a priest in Anchorage. His wife Stella (Burton) was the Bishop's secretary.

Dates: 1956-1963
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 303, Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide Collection, 1956-1963

Clover Jean Ward (now Yarbrough)., 1959

 Item — Box: PCA 303
Identifier: ASL-P303-113
Scope and Contents

Clover Jean Ward (now Yarbrough), who was Bishop Gordon's secretary after Stella Burton, and Nancy Warren, wife of the Rev. William Warren who became rector of St. Matthew's Fairbanks in 1959.

Dates: 1959
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 303, Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide Collection, 1956-1963

A view of Hughes, Alaska from the air., February 1960

 Item — Box: PCA 303
Identifier: ASL-P303-114
Scope and Contents

The runway/landing ran the length of the village, between the houses and the river.

Dates: February 1960
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 303, Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide Collection, 1956-1963

Another view of Hughes., February 1960

 Item — Box: PCA 303
Identifier: ASL-P303-115
Scope and Contents

Taken from upriver of town as the plane approached the runway.

Dates: February 1960
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 303, Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide Collection, 1956-1963

View of Hughes, Alaska from the air on the far side of the river., Fall 1961

 Item — Box: PCA 303
Identifier: ASL-P303-116
Content Description From the Collection: The collection reflects the Keller family and their experiences while living in Huslia and traveling through the interior regions of Alaska. Descriptions, written by Mrs. Keller, capture the residents of the villages and their daily activities and contain much historical information. The collection includes views of Huslia, Tetlin, Minto, Tanana, Alaskan villages on the Koyukuk River, Koyukon families and members of the Episcopal church, 1956-1963. Included in the collection are...
Dates: Fall 1961
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 303, Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide Collection, 1956-1963

Mr. and Mrs. Les James, longtime Hughes traders and post masters and their adopted son Timmy.

 Item — Box: PCA 303
Identifier: ASL-P303-117
Scope and Contents

We believe Timmy was an Ambrose. He was from Hughes.

Dates: 1956-1963
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 303, Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide Collection, 1956-1963

Abraham Oldman of Hughes and his family at Christmas time of 1962(?)., ca. Winter 1962

 Item — Box: PCA 303
Identifier: ASL-P303-118
Scope and Contents

Abraham was a half brother of Edward Bergman of Allakakat, and father of Shirley Attla and Eleanor Sam of Huslia.

Dates: ca. Winter 1962
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 303, Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide Collection, 1956-1963

A view of "Sam White's Lake" somewhere northeast of Hughes., September 1961

 Item — Box: PCA 303
Identifier: ASL-P303-119
Scope and Contents

Sam had a cache on this lake, and a tent and an inflatable raft. I believe it was his hunting camp. He took Pat and Connie Keller there for a vacation in the fall of 1961; he left us for a week which turned into 10 days. A very shallow lake with hundreds of ducks, moose, etc.

Dates: September 1961
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 303, Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide Collection, 1956-1963

Sam's float plane; his own private plane on the Koyukuk River at Hughes.

 Item — Box: PCA 303
Identifier: ASL-P303-120
Content Description From the Collection: The collection reflects the Keller family and their experiences while living in Huslia and traveling through the interior regions of Alaska. Descriptions, written by Mrs. Keller, capture the residents of the villages and their daily activities and contain much historical information. The collection includes views of Huslia, Tetlin, Minto, Tanana, Alaskan villages on the Koyukuk River, Koyukon families and members of the Episcopal church, 1956-1963. Included in the collection are...
Dates: 1956-1963
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 303, Connie and Rev. Pat Keller Slide Collection, 1956-1963