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Carl J. and Dorothy L. Aho Photograph Collection, ca. 1940s

My dad donated a bunch of old photographs in his and my uncle’s name to the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections at the University of Alaska Fairbanks- Rasmuson Library back in the 1990s. The photographs are: “The Carl J. and Dorothy L Aho Photograph Collection consists of seventy-one black and white photographs. Images include aerial views, landing fields, landscapes, aircraft, military personnel, buildings, insignia and dog teams. The images were taken in Barrow and other Alaskan locations, as well as in California, and all relate to the activities of the Naval Air Transport Service.” No idea where the photos came from, family lore has it that they were given to them probably from someone in Barrow, but they were both pack rats and saved way too much junk.

The collection was to be called the Terrence and John Aho Photograph Collection, but somehow it ended up being named after my grandparents Carl J. and Dorothy L Aho. You can see the collection here: http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/index just type in “aho” into the search field.

Here are the various library records: