Alaska Aviation Photographs [Wandling]
In July 1923, the U. S. Army Air Service disclosed that it intended to attempt a global flight the following year. Four specially built aircraft were commissioned from the Douglas Aircraft Company. The World Cruisers, as they were called, were christened the
Ada Wandling was living in Alaska during the time of the Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) world flight. She took photographs that documented their stop in Seward, Alaska, as well as other aviation events happening in the state.
This collection consists of photographs taken by Ada Wandling of aviation activity in Alaska during the 1920s. There are both negatives and prints, and there are some duplicates. There are five black and white negatives and two black and white prints, each measuring approximately 3.5 by 6 inches, of five different images of the Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) aircraft taken in Seward, Alaska in 1924. There are also seven black and white prints of three different images, measuring approximately 3 by 1.75 inches each, of a Travel Air Model BW (Model 4000) (J-4 Whirlwind) that has crash landed in Alaska. It is possibly the Travel Air Model BW
Collection is in original order.
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Barbara Jones, Gift, 2019, NASM.2019.0056
Alaska Aviation Photographs [Wandling], NASM.2019.0056, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Arranged, described, and encoded by Jessamyn Lloyd, 2019.