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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of a young, drunk Merchant Marine being helped up the gangplank to a ship docked in Juneau, Alaska. The scene is viewed from an elevated perspective. The wharf stretches through the image on an upward angle from left to right. A gangplank enters frame from right. It slopes downward as it stretches towards the left. At the base of the gangplank, left-of-center, a young, drunk Merchant Marine is being helped up the gangplank by the ship's crew. Behind them at left, 2 young boys look on. A warehouse lines the left side of the dock as it stretches into the background. People walk along the dock in the distance at right. Text from negative sleeve: 2206. Alaska Trip Juneau, Sept.12, 1946. 1. Young Merchant Marine dead drunk being helped up the gangplank 2. Mertie West looking over rail at Big Gold Mine on side of hill 3. The Big Mine. 4. Looking across the straight [sic] from our boat. 5. Seaplanes arriving and leaving at rear of our boat 6. Alaska Cold Storage Co. from boat 7. Narrow street and long flight of steps up the hill. 8. Mertie West studying the Airplane chart.
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