Hitchen

Hitchen Collection

September 1948

This black & white image shows the Worthington Glacier, approximately 29 miles north of Valdez on the Richardson Highway, as it appeared in September 1948. The foreground is a flat, shrub-covered plain leading to ridges of dark gravel-covered ice in middle ground across the image. Immediately behind these ridges the white ice of the glacier splits into two large lobes around a large rocky outcrop. Behind the outcrop the glacier rises into the background defined by pyramid-shaped mountains on both sides and at its crest in center. Patches of snow persist on the mountain sides.

Near Valdez, Alaska

Black & white print from a 35mm color slide

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