Anchorage, Alaska
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- downtown from the Hotel Captain Cook. The gold building on the right, the Conoco-Phillips Building, is the tallest building in Alaska and exemplifies the importance of the petroleum industry.
- Visitor Information Center, downtown on 4th Avenue
- Aerial view of the Port of Anchorage on Cook Inlet in 1999
- The Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, in downtown Anchorage
- front entrance of the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center in downtown
- Peak Three in the Chugach Mountains
- Alaska Botanical Garden
- View of the upper Eagle River valley in Chugach State Park
- Fourth Avenue after the Good Friday or Great Alaskan earthquake on March 27, 1964
- Satellite view taken August 2020. The municipality encompasses the entire land mass between the Knik River and Knik Arm (top), and the Turnagain Arm (bottom), with the Mat-Su borough to the north, the Kenai Peninsula to the south, and Whittier just east of the mountains (lower right).
- cityscape in the evening
- Cook Inlet near the mouth of Turnagain Arm, a few miles south of the "Anchorage bowl."
- An early summer day at Jewel Lake Park in western Anchorage
- cityscape at night
- The "Anchorage Welcomes You" sign outside Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. The city is known for showcasing abundant flowers during the summer months.
- View from the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail near the mouth of Chester Creek. From foreground to background: Westchester Lagoon, the southern reaches of the Bootleggers Cove neighborhood, and the downtown skyline.
- Moose and calf outside a church in Anchorage
- Panorama of Anchorage as viewed at night from the Glen Alps neighborhood
- USS Anchorage (LPD-23) departing from its eponymous port in May 2013. The vessel is framed by the city's downtown and the Chugach Mountain Range in the background.
History
- The tent city (called "The White City" in the handwritten caption) in Ship Creek, photographed by Alberta Pyatt on July 1, 1915
- Fourth Avenue in 1953, looking east from near I Street.