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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 ship passengers wandering about the docks while passing through Orca (Cordova), Alaska. A boy (partial view) stands in the foreground at center. He faces the camera as he looks down to the ground (out-of-frame). Behind him, a woman (left) and man (right) stand with their backs to the camera as they approach a gangplank. The gangplank extends along the left edge on a steep incline, where it meets a pier of higher elevation. The pier stretches on an upward angle towards the upper right corner and is viewed from below. Its structural supports are visible in the water at right. People stand and lean against the rail lining the pier's near edge. Mertie West is one of these people. She stands near the top of the frame at center and glances back to the left. Several punch holes line both the left and right edges. Text from negative sleeve: 2217. Color Alaska Trip Orca Sept.8, 1946. · 1. Two fishing boat bows Orca Sitkof · 2. L to R: [handwritten:] Mrs G O Sanden - J.R Unwen[?] 370 Parnassus St [end handwritten] At right Mertie West with salmon · 3. Gangway to float Mertie West at extreme upper right not showing · 4. H. H. West and Salmon · 5. Mertie West and the same salmon · 6. H.H.West dozing on deck in sun
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