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.2005.112749

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: RAF’er In Alaska; handwritten: 8 22 / 5 / M; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / ROBERT B. GOODMAN / from BLACK STAR; typed label: 11- “Tea? Well we had to melt the snow to prepare it. The only water / we had was melted snow. Unfortunately while I was opening my ration / tin in the prescribed manner I punctured a cheese bar. The tea was a / bit smoky, a bit cheesy, had a few spruce needles and bits of ash in / it, but other than this it was really quite good.”

Tagasauris Keywords: 3 people; Day; Male; Mid adult; Outdoors; Unrest, conflicts and war; Waist up; World War II; World War II
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII / ALASKA-AIR FORCE BASE
Retouching: N