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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. An out-of-focus photograph of Cook Inlet, as viewed at a distance from Frances Wells' apartment in Anchorage. What appears to be foliage spans the foreground. In the near distance, buildings dot the landscape. Cook Inlet stretches across the distance. It sits off-center to the left, disappearing behind a land form at right. Mountains rise in the far distance. A few punch holes line the top edge of the image. Text from negative sleeve: [handwritten:] 2 [end handwritten]216. Color Alaska Trip. Anchorage, August 10, 1946. · 1. Sally Monserud 2. Mertie West and flowers [handwritten:] across from Kinsells [end handwritten] · 3. Cook Inlet and snow covered mountains in western Alaska across inlet · 4. Cook Inlet looking north west from bluff near France Wells [sic] apt Mt McKinley at extreme right · 5. Lingo Apt Mertie West where Frances Wells lives · 6. Alaska Railroad depot. [handwritten:] MERTIE WEST IN DOORWAY [end handwritten]
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