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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Mertie West (center) and others strolling through the town of Circle, Alaska. Overgrown grasses in the foreground at left line a dirt and gravel road that enters frame at right. Mertie West walks along this road in the distance, right-of-center. One man stands behind and to the left of Mertie. Three other people stand in the overgrown grasses that line the right side of the road. Beyond them, 2 log buildings stand in a line that recedes into the distance. The taller of the two buildings stands nearer to camera along the right edge. Both buildings are viewed at an angle and face left. The Yukon River flows horizontally across the image in the background, disappearing behind the log buildings at right. Text from negative sleeve: 2190. Alaska Trip Circle on Yukon Aug.20,1946. · 1. Some of the buildings · 2. Same with Yukon River · 3. Same with Mertie West in center · 4. Northern Commercial Co store and our bus · 5. Yukon, with Mertie West in center [handwritten:] X · [end handwritten] 6. Only boat on the river "Yukon Belle" · 7. H.H.West becomes a Sourdough by spitting in the Yukon [handwritten and circled:] 7 [end handwritten and circled]
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2190_005 ark:/21198/zz002j2twn
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Log buildings--Alaska--Circle Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska) Abandoned buildings--Alaska--Circle Cities & towns--Alaska West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
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