Looking Down on an Alaskan Glacier Fairbanks. - A photograph of the Black Rapids Glacier; 125 miles southeast of Fairbanks; taken by Pilot Berton Lien; one of the Government weather fliers, from the window of his plane while flying at an altitude of 3;000 feet late in March. The ice mass; which has become famous for the rapidity of its movement, is a mile wide and ten miles long and ranges from 500 to 700 feet in thickness.

Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. April 1937]

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