Crowd looking at airplane flown to Hatton, N.D. by Carl Ben Eielson for homecoming celebration

• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: North Dakota State University Libraries, Institute for Regional Studies; 1928
• Subjects: People; Transportation; Social Life & Customs; Airplanes; Crowds; Celebrations; Homecomings; Eielson; Carl Benjamin; 1897-1929; Hatton (N.D.); Traill County (N.D.); North Dakota; United States; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Borland; Fairbanks; McGrath; Norway; Wilkins; Antarc*; Antarctica; Barrow; Point Barrow; Spitzbergen; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/uw/id/146

Large crowd of people, with backs to camera, looking at airplane on ground. Photographic postcards; 8 x 14 cm. Carl Benjamin Eielson was born at Hatton, N.D. in 1897 where he grew up. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 and received training in flying. After being mustered out in 1919 he returned t...