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Early Anchorage, Alaskan Salmon Cannery, by Sydney Laurence, 1915 12028
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Early Anchorage, Alaskan Salmon Cannery, by Sydney Laurence. Mount Susitna at the edge of the Alaska Range on the horizon, a view of the Emard Salmon Cannery on the bank of Ship Creek, Anchorage. This early building was among the town’s first, chartered in 1915. Laurence made his semi-permanent residence in the Anchorage Hotel, built in 1916 in what is now downtown Anchorage.
Sydney Laurence (1865–1940) was an American Romantic landscape painter and is widely considered one of Alaska's most important historical artists. Sydney Mortimer Laurence was born in Brooklyn, New York, and studied at the Art Students League of New York. He married Alexandrina Fredricka Dupre in 1889
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1915
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Wikimedia Commons
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