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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph taken from Frances Wells' apartment that looks across Anchorage towards Cook Inlet. The scene is viewed from a bird's-eye perspective. The tops of trees stand in the lower right corner. Houses and streets stand in the near distance below at left. Farther out, Cook Inlet spans the image and disappears behind the trees that stand in the foreground at right. The opposite shore is visible in the far distance. Text from negative sleeve: 2158. Alaska Trip. Anchorage, August 24, 1946. 1.Sterling and Mertie West. 2 and 3. Trailer on flat car at yards. [handwritten text:] 4 [end handwritten text] [crossed out:] 3. [end crossed out] View from Frances Wells apartment out over Cook Inlet. [handwritten text:] 5 [end handwritten text] [crossed out:] 4. [end crossed out] Half of Liberty Ship out in water furnishing light to Anchorage. crushed rock plant at left. [handwritten text:] 6 [end handwritten] [crossed out:] 5. [end crossed out] Trailer in rear of store.
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