Kodiak Historical Society Collection: Kodiak Historical Society, Beetsch CollectionDescription: verso reads "No Air Traffic Control!" A B24 crash at the Buskin River, Kodiak, 1943. No one was injured.

The University of Alaska Anchorage houses the archives of the Alaska Historical Society.  Included are collections concerning trips to, or in, Alaska by F. W. A. Poppe, John T. Smith, and Archie Templeton. There are also original and copied papers of Alfred P. Swineford, early governor of Alaska. Among the groups of photographic materials are collections by or relating to C. E. Claypool, Ida Copley, Courait, J. Ferguson, C. Gilpatrick, the Kalifornsky Family, Loman and Hanford, the McKeown Family, Ann and Robert Mounteer, Otto Schallerer, and C. M. Thurston, as well as others. There are also groupings of miscellaneous original and copied photographs, clippings, and publications.

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