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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. According to the negative sleeve, this set of photographs is captured in color. The scans of these images are in black and white. Photograph of Mertie West (right) and a fellow Aleutian passenger chatting on the dock while watching salmon being unloaded from the ship in Orca, Alaska. Mertie West and the other passenger stand at left with their backs to the camera. They appear to be in conversation. The dock stretches ahead of them. Carts stacked with boxes of salmon sit in the near distance at right. Beyond the cargo, the ship, Aleutian, is moored. It sits in partial view and is viewed from the side; its bow faces left. A couple people are visible sitting and standing along the rail of the upper deck at right. Along the bow, it reads, "ALEUT[IAN]." Some landscape is visible in the far distance along the left edge. A streak of white enters from the lower left corner and the lower third of the image appears to be blurred. Five punch holes run down the right edge. Text from negative sleeve: 2210. Color Alaska Trip. [handwritten:] 8-9-46 [end handwritten] Xx Orca, Sept.8,1946. Mertie West talking to passenger on the dock. Loading Salmon here.
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