Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2013.07.007
Accession#:
2013.07
Credit Line:
Donated by Barbara Dadd Shaffer.
Object Name:
Postcard
Title:
Juneau, Alaska, looking down Gastineau Channel
Place:
Juneau, Alaska
Year Range from:
1960
Year Range to:
1985
Description:
Color, horizontally orientated postcard featuring an illustration of a city located at the base of a mountain and along a water way. The city is Juneau, Alaska, the mountain is Mount Roberts and the waterway is the Gastineau Channel. View is from above as if from on Mount Juneau. Douglas Island is seen in the proper left background. Black typed text in the blue sky reads: "C—148. Juneau, Alaska, looking down Gastineau Channel". A white boarder surrounds the image on all four sides.

Verso has text identifying the object as a postcard as well as the proper place to put a postage stamp, address and correspondence. Text in the upper proper left corner reads: "JUNEAU, ALASKA / Juneau, the Capital of Alaska, is situation on / Gastineau Channel about 1,033 miles northwest / of Seattle. The settlement and development of / Juneau depend largely on mining, it being situ— / ated in what is known as the "Juneau Gold Belt.""
People:
Shaffer, Barbara Dodd
Search Terms:
Postcard
Print
Landscape
Cityscape
City
Douglas
Mountain
Mount Roberts
Gastineau
Gastineau Channel
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Juneau, Alaska looking down Gastineau ChannelJuneau, Alaska looking down Gastineau Channel
Juneau, Alaska looking down Gastineau ChannelJuneau, Alaska looking down Gastineau Channel