Lowell Thomas
First "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From CBS TELEVISION
Press Information Photo Division
Broadcast Date: November 12, 1957

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Lowell Thomas on boat up Sepik River, New Guinea.
First "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From Campbell Ewald Company, Inc.
Broadcast Date: November 12, 1957

Lowell Thomas with head-hunters in New Guinea.
First "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From Campbell Ewald Company, Inc.
Broadcast Date: November 12, 1957

New Guinea Tribesmen & sometimes head-hunters.
First "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From Campbell Ewald Company, Inc.
Broadcast Date: November 12, 1957

Lowell Thomas with pioneer Artic explorers.
Left to right: Admiral Donald B. MacMillan, Sir Hubert Wilkins, Peter Freuchen, Lowell Thomas, Sr and Colonel Bernt Balchen. Seattle-Tacoma Airport(?) flying to Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
Second "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From Campbell Ewald Company, Inc.
Broadcast Date: December 23, 1957
Note Peter Freuchen's left foot which was amputated by Eskimos when it froze during a dog sled north polar expedition in the winter of 1921-22. Also note Hubert Wilkins shoes.

Lowell Thomas with pioneer Artic explorers.
Left to right: Lowell Thomas, Jr, Colonel Bernt Balchen, Lowell Thomas, Sr, Admiral Donald B. MacMillan and Sir Hubert Wilkins.
Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
Second "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From Campbell Ewald Company, Inc.
Broadcast Date: December 23, 1957

Lowell Thomas with Colonel Bernt Balchen, first man to fly over North and South Poles.
Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
Second "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From CBS TELEVISION
Photo Division Press Information
Broadcast Date: December 23, 1957

Lowell Thomas Sr and Jr at the "Top of the World".
In plane at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
Second "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From Campbell Ewald Company, Inc.
Broadcast Date: December 23, 1957

Lowell Thomas with Admiral Donald B. MacMillan (left).
In plane flying over North Pole.
Second "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From Campbell Ewald Company, Inc.
Broadcast Date: December 23, 1957

Lowell Thomas above Artic Circle.
At "Dew-Line" Radar dome (Northern Alaska?).
Second "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From Campbell Ewald Company, Inc.
Broadcast Date: December 23, 1957

"Whiskey Johnnie" Frisbie, born on Puka Puka
subject of third "High Adventure with Lowell
Thomas" titled Danger Island.
More photo information, click link below.
Originally From Campbell Ewald Company, Inc.
Broadcast Date: January 19, 1958

Lowell Thomas in front of a Nike-Asp rocket,
named "Sadie Thompson" after 1921 William
Somerset Maugham title character in Miss
Thompson later retitled Rain, used for observing
October 12, 1957 solar eclipse from Puka Puka.
Third "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From Campbell Ewald Company, Inc.
Broadcast Date: January 19, 1958

Danger Island (Puka Puka) Headquarters where
scientists went to observe October 12, 1957
total solar eclipse.
Third "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From Campbell Ewald Company, Inc.
Official U.S. Navy Photo
Broadcast Date: January 19, 1958
Note: IGY Flag for International Geophysical Year
of 1957. (Latitude 10° 55' S, Longitude 165° 50' W)

Lowell Thomas with remains of a rhinoceros.
Nairobi, Kenya.
Fourth "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
Originally From CBS TELEVISION
Photo Division Press Information
Broadcast Date: January 22, 1958

Lowell Thomas riding camel in Morocco.
Producer Gilbert Ralston (?) in front of camel.
"High Adventure with Lowell Thomas"
No additional photo information available.
Broadcast Date: From 1958 to 1959

Lowell Thomas with Mike Douglas.
"Mike Douglas Show"
Click on photo to read caption below photo.
Broadcast Date: November 15, 1971


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