Title: "Polar Bear" Airplane Ferried Across the Skeena River

This record describes an item in the Wrathall Photo Finishing Ltd. fonds.

Date: 1921

Physical Description: 1 nitrate negative : b&w ; 9 x 15 cm

Scope & Content: Item consists of the "Polar Bear" airplane in a dugout canoe having just been ferried across the Skeena River. The "Polar Bear" was an airplane to be flown from Mexico to Siberia by pilot Clarence O. Prest. The plane was serviced by mechanician L. M. Bach. The man standing on the beach on the right is H. H. Little.

Note: Title based on contents of photo.

Name Access:
Wrathall, John (Jack) Richmond
Prest, Clarence O.
Bach, L.M.
Little, Henry H.

Subject Access:
Airplanes
Canoes
Boats
Rivers
People

Geographic Access:
Hazelton, B.C.

Negative Number: JRW4016E

Record ID: 13457


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