Unknown

Johnson Collection

July 5, 1917

This low oblique image facing north shows the Anchorage railroad depot at upper near middle ground with a crowd of people standing on the platform in front of the depot along the tracks from foreground to far middle ground. These people are generally looking across a vacant set of tracks at a train of open freight cars on a second set of tracks at extreme left. These open cars are packed with people. Several people are standing or walking in the vacant space between the loaded train and the depot platform. The album caption indicates the people on the train are headed to Matanuska. Since the community of Matanuska lacked overnight accommodations for such a large group of visitors, it may be assumed that this was a morning departure of a forty-mile day trip to share Independence Day related festivities, likely including inter-community baseball games.

Anchorage, Alaska

Black & White paper print, 2-1/2" x 4-1/2"

Anchorage#14x-Joh