Hewitt's Photo Shop

Estelle Collection

1936

This photo shows the new white Palmer post office building in foreground. The south wall faces obliquely left in the photo with the entry door and open porch at the left (west) end and three windows together in the center of the wall. The east end wall shows two vertical sliding windows together centered below the main peak of the roof. This end wall extends to the right beyond the main roof and is covered by a lower angle roof extension. A "POST OFFICE" sign hangs from the top of the entry porch. A portion of the Powerhouse building is visible at extreme right behind the post office. The immediate foreground exhibits a somewhat roughly grades gravel surface with significant snow-melt water present, possibly indicating an early spring date and perhaps the office has not yet opened for business.

Palmer, Alaska

Digital file

Buildings@8x-Est