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Blue Collection

June 1937

This photo shows some buildings of the old, mostly abandoned community of Knik. The immediate foreground is covered with short grass and the main feature is a house of sorts at right foreground composed of an array of building materials and styles. Combining horizontal logs, wide vertical and horizontal planks, vertical boards of varying width, roof shakes and support posts, a two-roomed structure with a front porch stands on the bluff above the Knik Arm of Cook Inlet. Another more conventional wooden house is partially visible at right and behind the foreground structure. The roof of another house is partially visible over the bluff at extreme left and another dilapidated building is visible over the bluff at center left. Close inspection reveals a couple of adults and several children apparently having a picnic next to this structure. The mud flats and water of Knik Arm are indistinctly visible in middle ground and background with the south shore of the inlet visible in far background.

Knik, Alaska

Black & White paper print, 2-3/4" x 3-1/2"

Knik#1x-Blu