Shafer Historical Museum
Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Smoke jumper photos. Francis Lufkin, who because the first manager of the North Cascades Smokejumper Base, started in 1945. In this photo he is standing in front of a Stinson Reliant SR-10, the first Forest Service-owned aircraft, before his jump during the 1939 experimental smokejumping program Note: this photo is also filed under 2005.016.266 |
Catalog Number |
2018.061.016 |
Collection |
Wild Fires |
Search Terms |
smoke jumpers airplanes parachutes wildfires forest |
People |
Lufkin, Francis |
Subjects |
Methow Valley 1939 |
Classification |
Disasters/Fires |
Date |
09/08/2020 |