Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: GOODMAN, Robert B.
Event Date: ca. 1939-45
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.112737

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: RAF’er In Alaska; handwritten: 8 / 7 / M; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / ROBERT B. GOODMAN / from BLACK STAR; typed label: 13-…that he would soon end up in embarrassing position. As he / later so wisely observed, “It’s really no trick to fall down on snow / shoes, but it’s quite a trick to get up.” Falling in soft snow is / disconcerting. Thrust out an arm for support and it just keeps going down / thru the snow. Survival students have been known to go in on their / heads leaving only wiggling snow-shoed feet above the snow. Luckily / Cropper upset between two trees and with these as a brace managed to / get back on his feet.

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; Day; Face; Full length; Male; Male; Mid adult; Outdoors; Person; Smile; Unrest, conflicts and war; World War II; World War II
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII / ALASKA-AIR FORCE BASE
Retouching: N