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Ship Creek
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The dirt street in 1915 Tent City (Old Town Anchorage)
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The "White City" photographed by Alberta Pyatt
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Businesses crowded the Tent City streets of 1915
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Fourth Avenue from F Street, looking west
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An historic auction, 1915
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An Alaska Engineering Commission construction crew
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Ship Creek residents
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July 4 baseball players
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The earliest buildings on Government Hill
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The Bank of Alaska
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The first camp in Anchorage
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Sydney Laurence's photo of 4th Avenue
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The Alaska Railroad Hospital in 1915
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"Fat Man's Race"
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The mud flats at Ship Creek
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Two Anchorage entrepreneurs
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Buildings and businesses in the Ship Creek area
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The first 4th of July celebration
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Tent City (Old Town Anchorage)
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The first snowfall on the new town
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The first railroad tracks laid in Ship Creek
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A view of the new townsite

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