Transportation - Airplanes

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Title: Transportation - Airplanes
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Transportation - Air Travel, Persons, Water - Lakes
Condition: Good
Description: From boat to seaplane to land plane that is the experience these Isle Royale tourists enjoyed recently as they arrived at the Air Port Sands in Houghton. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Asher and friend and William Leithold, pilot of the land plane stop to chat as Robert Ruch, pilot of the seaplane, prepares for a return to Isle Royale. [The two planes and their passengers are pictured at the sands. See comment section for further information.]
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette article July 11, 1958 [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Robert Skuggen
Date of Photo: Friday July 11 1958
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 11.1 cm x 20.4 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS051-015-006-014
Collection Name: Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• The Asher party is from Sturgeon Bay while Leithold is from Green Bay. They left Rock Harbor by boat, took passage on the seaplane, landed at the Isle Royale Sands in Houghton, transferred to the landplane and landed in Sturgeon Bay, all within two hours. The seaplane is kept at Isle Royale Island for emergency runs and non-scheduled trips.
10/30/2007 1:17:41 PM by Christine Holland, Archives