[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9129]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Upper picture gives an excellent idea of the desolate Arctic tundra over which Wiley Post and Will Rogers were flying when they crashed to death. Below, a nearer view of the plane. The smashed front and wing of the craf...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Griest, Henry
Format: Still Image
Language:Norwegian
Published: 1935
Subjects:
Business
Economics and Finance - Journalism
Post
Wiley-Aviator
Oklahoma City Times photographs
WILEY / AVIATOR
Arctic
eskimo*
Point Barrow
Tundra
Online Access:https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1699531/
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Summary:Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Upper picture gives an excellent idea of the desolate Arctic tundra over which Wiley Post and Will Rogers were flying when they crashed to death. Below, a nearer view of the plane. The smashed front and wing of the craft are clearly visible. The pictures give a general view of the scene where the two men stopped to ask the way to Point Barrow and where they were killed attempting to take off again. In the background at the left in the further bank of the stream may be seen an Eskimo tent. Pictures by Henry Griest, director of the Presbyterian hospital at Poitn Barrow."

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