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.
Photograph of Juneau Cold Storage Co., Inc. and surrounding dockside buildings, as viewed from the West's ship docked in Juneau, Alaska. The scene is viewed from an elevated perspective. In the foreground, the side of the ship stretches vertically along the right edge. Below the ship, a dock lined by a couple of warehouses stretches back at right. To the left of the rightmost building, a dilapidated dock stretches towards the lower left corner. Behind the dilapidated dock at left, piles of lumber sit in front of the "Columbia Lumber Co." building. Tucked behind and between these buildings stands "JUNEAU CO[L]D STORAGE CO. INC. PUBLIC STORAGE," left-of-center. A "Coca-Cola" sign stands on the near corner of the rooftop. Behind all the buildings, a steep, tree-covered hillside rises from right to left. A large, gold mine building stands in tiers on the hillside's slope, partially obscured by fog.
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.
Photograph of the Hawk Inlet post office, as viewed from the side. A wood plank walkway extends from the foreground, left-of-center, and back towards center. At right, a 2-story building lines the walkway and stretches into the distance. An awning in the near distance juts from the building and over the walkway. The sign hanging down from the awning reads, "HAWK INLET POST - OFFICE." A man stands beneath the awning and faces the door at right. Behind him, other people stand alongside the building and peek into the windows. A few others stroll along the walkway at left. Another 2-story building lines the left side of the walkway and stretches into the distance. A transparent band of gray stretches along the bottom edge of the photograph.
Photograph of H. H. West posing with a flounder while standing on a promenade deck of his ship as it sails through Hawk Inlet. H. H. West stands in the near distance at center. He looks to the camera while holding up a flounder. H. H. stands on a promenade of a ship. The walkway extends behind him. A railing lines the left side of the walkway. In front of H. H., a fishing rod leans against the ship's rail. A crew member stands behind and to the right of H. H. West and looks towards him. Silhouetted mountains are barely visible in the distance, rising behind the railing at left.
Photograph of Hawk Inlet and Admiralty Island, taken from a ship sailing through an adjacent channel. The image appears to tilt downward towards the right. A ship (partial view) occupies the lower left corner of the image. The camera faces towards the ship's bow. Rigging stretches vertically from the deck's rail. Passengers and cargo are visible on the deck. To the right of the ship, a channel extends across the image and into the distance. A settlement is visible on the distant shore at center. Tree-covered hills rise from shorelines in the distance.
Photograph of Mertie West wearing a life preserver during a ship safety drill. Mertie West stands at center, wearing a life jacket, and faces left. The covered deck she stands upon stretches behind her on an upward angle from left to right. A guardrail lines the far side of the walkway. Two other passengers stand along the rail at far right, behind Mertie. Behind the 2 other passengers, a jet of water streams from the ship and arcs out to the ocean. The ocean stretches into distance.
Photograph of a fishing boat sailing through a channel near Juneau. The photograph tilts downward to the right. The scene is viewed from an elevated perspective. A wide waterway extends from the foreground and into the distance. It meets a shoreline that bisects the image on an upward angle from right to left. In the near distance, a fishing boat sails through the channel, left-of-center. It is viewed at an angle from the side as it travels towards the right. Seagulls flock around the boat. The boat's wake ripples behind it at left. Beyond the boat, a couple of small islands stand in the distance. Mountains rise across the shoreline in the background. Clouds obscure the distant mountains at left and center.
Photograph of a buoy floating in a channel near Juneau, Alaska. The waterway spans the width of the image and stretches back from the bottom edge. In the near distance, at center, a buoy floats in the water. Tree covered hills line the far shoreline and silhouetted mountains rise in the far distance.
Photograph of passengers donning life jackets while participating in a fire safety drill aboard their ship. The camera looks down an exterior corridor of the ship. The corridor's walkway stretches from the bottom edge and directly back at a slight angle to the left. A guardrail lines the left side of the walkway. On the right side, passengers wear life preservers and stand in a row that recedes back along the corridor. They lean against the exterior of a cabin that runs the length of the walkway. The nearest passenger stands along the right edge with his back to camera and faces left. He takes a photograph. On his life jacket, it reads, "59." The ocean is visible just beyond the guardrails at far left.
Photograph of Hawk Inlet on Admiralty Island, as viewed from an approaching ship. The image appears to tilt downward towards the right. A ship (partial view) occupies the lower left corner of the image. The camera faces towards the ship's bow. Rigging stretches vertically from the deck's rail. Cargo is visible sitting on the deck. To the right of the ship, a channel extends across the image and into the distance. A settlement is visible on the distant shore at center. Tree-covered hills rise across the background.
Photograph overlooking the docks at Hawk Inlet on Admiralty Island. The wharf is viewed from an elevated perspective. Piers sit along the right side of the image and are topped by warehouse-like buildings. A sliver of a ship and some of its passengers occupy the lower left corner. Hawsers, masts and rigging crisscrosses through the image at left and center. In the distance and below the ship, 2 fishing boats are moored in the water, left-of-center. The rightmost ship is named, "ESKIMO." In the distance, the shoreline stretches on an upward angle to the left.
Photograph of Hawk Inlet on Admiralty Island, as viewed from an approaching ship. A channel stretches across the image and into the distance. A settlement is visible on the distant shore at center. Tree-covered hills rise across the background.
Photograph of the front of a building at the Libby salmon cannery and surrounding harbor at Taku Harbor. The cannery building stands in partial view along the left edge and is viewed from the front at an elevated angle. A pier extends back from the lower left corner to the warehouse. A gangplank extends down to the right of the warehouse's pier towards a dock at water level. A harbor sits off to the right side of the warehouse. Buildings on this body of water sit on the shore in the distance at center.
Photograph of the Libby cannery in Taku Harbor, as viewed from an approaching ship. The ship sails in partial view along the left edge of the image in the foreground. Its bow faces towards the back of the image. Cars are parked on the top deck and a few passengers stand along the starboard rail. Rigging lines stretch vertically above the ship. Taku Harbor stretches to the right of the ship and into the distance. The shoreline extends through the image from low right, arcing towards the left. Extending from the shore at center is the Libby cannery. Several large buildings stand on platforms over the water. Tree-covered mountainsides rise from the shoreline in the background.
Photograph of the front of a building at the Libby salmon cannery in Taku Harbor, as viewed from the front. The cannery building stands at center and is viewed at a slight angle from the front. An elevated walkway extends from the lower left corner and back towards a wide door on the second floor of the building. Above the door at center, a sign hangs; it reads, "Libby's." Pane-glass windows line 3 floors of the warehouse's front. At left, another building is visible beyond the warehouse. Water sits off to the right side of the warehouse. Buildings on this body of water sit on the shore in the distance at right.
Photograph of Juneau, taken from a ship sailing through the Gastineau Channel as the ship approaches Juneau. The Juneau waterfront stretches across the image in the distance. A ship (partial view) occupies the lower left corner of the image. The camera faces towards the ship's bow. Rigging stretches vertically from the deck's rail. To the right of the ship, Gastineau Channel extends across the image. Beyond the ship, the buildings of Juneau sit atop piers and a hillside. Snow covers the mountains that rise in the far distance.
Photograph of the Juneau waterfront, as viewed at a distance from the Gastineau Channel. The channel stretches across the foreground and into the distance. Juneau's shoreline enters frame in the distance at right and stretches back to the left. Buildings and docks are clustered together at far right and center. A few boats are visible in the water. Trees line the background. A streak of white twists in the middle of the image.
Photograph of a young, drunk Merchant Marine being helped up the gangplank to a ship docked in Juneau, Alaska. The scene is viewed from an elevated perspective. The wharf stretches through the image on an upward angle from left to right. A gangplank enters frame from right. It slopes downward as it stretches towards the left. At the base of the gangplank, left-of-center, a young, drunk Merchant Marine is being helped up the gangplank by the ship's crew. Behind them at left, 2 young boys look on. A warehouse lines the left side of the dock as it stretches into the background. People walk along the dock in the distance at right.
Photograph of a sign for P. E. Harris & Co. fish traps, surrounded by fish netting in the Hawk Inlet area of Juneau, Alaska. The wooden sign sits on the ground at center. It is viewed at a slight angle and reads, "P.E. HARRIS & CO LOWER HAWK INLET TRAP LIC 44-315." A round bale of fishing netting sits in the foreground to the left of the sign. Netting lies on the ground to the right of the sign. Foliage lines the background.
