Seaplanes land and take-off in the Gastineau Channel, Juneau, 1946

Item Overview

Title

Seaplanes land and take-off in the Gastineau Channel, Juneau, 1946

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

September 12, 1946

Date

1946-09-12

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of seaplanes landing and taking off in the Gastineau Channel, as viewed from the West's ship in Juneau, Alaska. The landscape is viewed from an elevated perspective. Gastineau Channel spans the width of the image along the bottom edge and stretches back to the left. A seaplane appears to ready for take-off in the near distance, left-of-center. To the right of it, a seaplane floats atop the water; it appears to have just landed. Along the right side of the channel, the Juneau shoreline stretches along the lower right edge and juts towards center behind the planes. In the far distance, mountains rise from Douglas Island.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2206. Alaska Trip Juneau, Sept.12, 1946. 1. Young Merchant Marine dead drunk being helped up the gangplank 2. Mertie West looking over rail at Big Gold Mine on side of hill 3. The Big Mine. 4. Looking across the straight [sic] from our boat. 5. Seaplanes arriving and leaving at rear of our boat 6. Alaska Cold Storage Co. from boat 7. Narrow street and long flight of steps up the hill. 8. Mertie West studying the Airplane chart.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

Alaska--Juneau

Longitude

58.297629

Latitude

-134.407593

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Seaplanes--American--Alaska--Juneau
Marines (Visual works)
Douglas Island (Alaska)
Gastineau Channel (Alaska)