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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 Mertie West standing in the garden across the street from Kinsell's in Anchorage. A pathway stretches along the bottom edge in the foreground. Mertie West stands at right, on the pathway. She faces slightly left and gazes back at the garden behind her. The edge of the pathway and garden are lined with low wire fencing. The garden stretches across the image behind Mertie. Back in the garden at left, a wooden structure stands. In the background, houses stand beyond the far edge of the garden. A few punch holes line the bottom frame. Text from negative sleeve: 2218. Color Alaska Trip. Anchorage Aug.10 1946 · 1. Mertie West in Mrs Cunningham's garden with log cabin · 2. H.H.West in doorway of Kinsell's home. · 3. Mertie West in Mrs Cunningham's garden in front of delphinums [sic] · 4. Bunch of tiger lilies in Cunningham garden · 5. Mertie West in flower garden across street from Kinsell's. 6. Same [scratched out typescript:] with Kinsell's home in rear [end scratched out typescript] [handwritten:] ON A VACANT LOT DOWN TOWN DELPHINIUMS TALL [end handwritten]
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