Image caption: Via Alaska Coastal seaplane this small patient arrived in Juneau en route to Mt. Edgecumbe Orthopedic hospital. He is being helped from airplane by the pilot and Alaska Department of Health medical social worker who met him in...
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. ...