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- OBJECT TYPE
- positive/print/b&w/framed
- DATE
- 1929
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2000.0244.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Commercial Airways Aklavik 1929
- LOCATION
- Canada
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General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- paper photograph & backing; glass; wooden frame; steel hanging hardware
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 37.4 cm
- Width
- 27.6 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- 2.2 cm
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Archives
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- photograph taken in 1929
- Canada
-
Mr. A.G. Simms was a pilot in Ferry Command between 1942 & 1945 during WWII; he worked as a pilot for a number of airlines in Canada, including the far north. These included Commercial Airways Ltd. before the war from at least 1929, and Canadair & Pacific Western Airlines after the war until at least 1974 - Function
-
display; souvenir of the career of Mr. A.G. (Tim) Simms - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- caption below image reads: "COMMERCIAL AIRWAYS; AKLAVIK, 1929"
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- b + w photograph; light brown frame
- Decoration
- image shows single engine airplane, with engine wrapped, landed in snowbank possibly during snowstorm; man & Inuit sled in foreground
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Unknown Manufacturer, Photograph, 1929, Artifact no. 2000.0244, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2000.0244.001/
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