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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of H. H. West posing next to signs advertising Santa Claus Lodge and Coca-Cola that are posted along the roadside in Gulkana. H. H. West stands in the near distance at center, along the right edge of the road. He faces towards the right and points an arm out towards signs at right. The signs are posted to a telephone pole that stands off to the right side of a road. The signs are viewed from the front and sit low on the pole. They read, "SANTA CLAUS LODGE," and "PAUSE...DRINK Coca-Cola." Tall grasses and utility poles stretch into the distance along the right side. The road enters frame along the bottom edge and from the left. The junction merges to the left of H. H. West. The road stretches into the distance behind H. H. on angle to the right. Text from negative sleeve: 2202. Alaska Trip Gulkana to Anchorage August 23, 1946. · 1. Mertie West in old stage at Gulkana · 2. Mertie West and our bus at Gulkana Fur store at left - closed up. · 3. H.H.West and sign at junction · 4. Native village across river from Santa Claus Lodge Gulkana · 5. Mertie West and caches at native village · 6. Eureka Road House Mertie West · 7. Lake behind Eureka road house Typical scenery · 8. Freda Chernoff, native girl, bus passenger, from El Nathan Home Valdez, Alaska. Taken at Palmer.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2202_001 ark:/21198/zz002j2xfc
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Signs (Notices) Advertisements Roads--Alaska West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
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