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Town of Skagway. Skagway, Southeast Alaska. 1913.

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1913

Summary

Town of Skagway. Skagway, Southeast Alaska. 1913. Email communication from Karl Gurcke, NPS, on June 16, 2020, "According to the information, this picture was taken in 1913. The date seems reasonable. One of the ways we can date photographs of Skagway is the presence or absence of certain buildings. In this case, for example, the three-story Dewey Hotel (light colored building with a tower on the extreme left-hand side of the image) is present on the southwest corner of 2nd Avenue and Broadway. It was moved to that location in 1908 and disappears sometime before 1938. Across the avenue on the northwest corner of 2nd Avenue and Broadway will be the Red Onion Saloon, which was moved to that location in 1914. It is still standing. [...]

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U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Moffit, Fred H.

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name photoLibrary mfh00603
number photoLibrary 26389
batch photoLibrary btch574
number_in_book photoLibrary 603

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