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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 posing outside the street entrance of the Alaska Railroad's Anchorage Depot. West 1st Avenue stretches across the foreground on a slightly upward angle from left to right. The long, Moderne-style depot stands on the far side of the road in the distance, off-center to the right. It is viewed at an angle from the front. Mertie West stands in front of the main entrance in the distance, right-of-center. Cars at right are parked along West 1st Avenue in front of the depot. A few punch holes line the left side of the top edge. 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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