Photo caption: One week of the Alaska Village Sanitation Aide training course is spent in laboratory work on the study of disease transmission. This program is sponsored jointly by the Alaska Native Health Service, the Alaska Department of Health...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska Northwest Airlines housing units at C Street and 10th Avenue. Housing can be accomplished with the aid of capitol and a supply of building materials. Only Northwest personnel reside in this...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska A so-called trailer camp practically in the center of Anchorage. This group situated at 13th and C Streets Provides a central privy for about 25 cabin and trailer units. Reported to charge...
Title taken from photo caption. Photo caption: 16 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska Opposite Merrill Field, the Municipal Airport is a string of trailers and shacks -- contrary to implications the residents of this area do not work at the Municipal...
Photo caption: 16 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska Owing to the housing shortage in this area and the fact that the management of the Alaska Railroad declined to have employees live in the unhealthy insanitary conditions which were prevalent in the...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska These two shacks on the North Alley of 4th Avenue house at least six occupants - unlike some other shacks, these two have water and the larger has toilet facilities - both were built by 1917. ...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska In this scene immediately adjacent to Anchorage there are visible seven structures which are being used as privies. It would appear that the saturation point had been reached and that well from...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska 10th and East G - - privies and shacks predominate in this scene. Poor housing is one of the major factors in the high degree of illness of children under 10 years of age in this portion of...