Mertie West stands in front of a shop window, Juneau, 1946

Item Overview

Title

Mertie West stands in front of a shop window, 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 Mertie West looking at charts posted in the storefront window of Pan American World Airways. A street stretches across the foreground on an upward angle from right to left. Mertie West stands in the near distance at center with her back to camera. She faces the shop window and looks at something posted in the window. The window extends to Mertie's right. Etched in the window it reads, "PAA The System of the Flying Clippers PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS." To Mertie's left, the front door sits back from the sidewalk. Etched into the glass of the door, it reads, "ALASKA SERVICE SEATTLE KETCHIKAN JUNEAU WHITEHORSE FAIRBANKS GALENA NOME McGRATH BETHEL." Another window and door sit to the left of that door. In the window at left, it reads, "CANADIAN PACIFIC." A doorway also stands along the right frame. An awning in the streamline moderne-style hovers over the sidewalk.

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

Names

Pan American Airways Corporation
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972

Location

Alaska--Juneau

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Storefronts--Alaska--Juneau