Photographs, 1964.

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Photographs, 1964.

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The collection consists of photographs of the damage of the 1964 Alaska Earthquake in Anchorage, Portage, and Seward. There are twenty-six black and white prints. Twenty 5 x 7 inch prints and one 8 x 10 inch print are U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photos. The remaining five 3 1/2 x 5 inch prints are of unknown origin. Specific areas represented include 4th Avenue, the J.C. Penney Building, L Street, West High School, Government Hill, Bootleggers Cove, Turnagain, a bridge on the Seward Highway, Portage, and Seward harbor. They depict damaged and destroyed buildings, sunken streets and houses, fallen trees, a damaged bridge, a wrecked railroad engineer, and beached boats.

.1 cu. ft.26 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm.-21 x 26 cm.

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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas: engineer regiment, military construction, and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding general/chief of engineers. The chief of engineers commands the engineer regiment, composed of combat engineer army units, and answers directly to the chief of staff of the army. Comba...

Huseby, Kenneth J.

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