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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 a flower garden in downtown Anchorage. Grasses stretch through the foreground. Mertie West stands in the near distance at center. She faces left, and looks back at a flowering plant. Behind her and to the left, tall delphiniums grow. The side of a building stretches across the background. Three punch holes line the lower left edge. 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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