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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. An out-of-focus photograph of dockworkers mooring a ship to a dock in Metlakatla, Alaska. The scene is viewed from a bird's-eye perspective. A dock stretches back on an angle from center to the left. Two dockworkers at center place a mooring line over a bollard. About 5 children surround them and watch. Behind the men, a shed with a slanted roof stands. A man stands beside the doorway. Beyond and to the left of the shed, another building stands in partial view. About a dozen or so people stand in the gap between this building and the shed. Docking occupies the background at right. Text from negative sleeve: 2205. Alaska Trip. Metlaklata [sic] Sept.16, 1946. 1. Docking 2. Warehouse on dock 3. Houses back of the wharf 4. at the docks 5. Center man is Captain H. Burns of the Aleutian 6. L to R Mertie West and 2 passrs [sic] 7. L to R Mr and Mrs Loyd Lindberry Mertie West
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