Category: LOAN
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Attributed to: The New York Times
Date: 1956
Medium: gelatin silver print with retouching and editing marks
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0094.0003

Inscriptions:
Recto, handwritten: 694; Verso, handwritten: 12-194; stamped: 56 MAR 9 PM4 02; typed: ROLL L / #1 / Passengers debarking down the ramp in nose of C-124, ice strip / on lake auxiliary radar site, Northern Canada, DEW Line. / [circled] #2 / C-124 rising from ice strip, auxiliary radar site, Northern / Canada. / #3-4-5-6-7-8-9 / C-124 landing on ice strip; auxiliary radar site, Northern /  Canada. / #12 / Inside power room, typical mod[u]le or compartment of a DEW Line / radar site, auxiliary station, Northern Canada. Site Engineer / Kenneth Larsen behind the generator.; stamped: 1956 APR 9 16 07; handwritten: Plane - 2 Col; stamped: PHOTOGRAPH BY / THE NEW YORK TIMES / TIMES SQUARE / NEW YORK 36, U.S.A.; stamped: DAILY / COLS. / WANTED; handwritten: [illeg.] / 3 11/16 x 4 3/8 / 1st Ed; stamped: RETURN TO TIMES / DATE RECEIVED / APR 10 1956 / IN PICTURE FILES / PHOTO LIBRARY; handwritten: HANSON Baldwin 40488A; typed: DISTANT EARLY WARNING SITES / The Distant Early Warning Line, which stretches about 3,000 / miles across the American Arctic far north of the Arctic / Circle has radar stations of three standard types extending / from the rugged frozen mountains of Baffin Island to the flat, / snow-covered Arctic Ocean Coast of Alaska. These stations are / now under construction in the greatest Arctic task ever at- / tempted. More than 5,200 laborers are building the stations / under severe conditions of sub-zero temperatures, high winds / and isolation. Polar bears, wolves, foxes, caribou and musk / ox are neighbors. The scenes show construction camps - / most of the laborers (abour 80 per cent) are Canadians (except / in Alaska) - and partly completed radar sites on Baffin / Island in the Foxe Basin area; in the Gulf of Boothie area; / or Victoria Island and on the northern coast of Alaska. / Also scenes at Point Barrow, Alaska, and other supply points / 40486AZ; stamped: [5]6 MAR 9 PM 3; handwritten: 3-031-L-9

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection