Anchorage Business Area, Where Quake Hit Hard-This is Fourth Avenue in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, where an estimated 50 per cent of the business area buildings were destroyed in giant earthquake which rumbled across the 49th state Friday night. An Army spokesman said the heart of the city of 48,000 was "completely flattened."

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Title:
Anchorage Business Area, Where Quake Hit Hard-This is Fourth Avenue in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, where an estimated 50 per cent of the business area buildings were destroyed in giant earthquake which rumbled across the 49th state Friday night. An Army spokesman said the heart of the city of 48,000 was "completely flattened."
Description:
[Information from item housing] Earthquake Alaska 1964
Photographer:
Associated Press
Name on Item:
AP
Date:
[ca. 1960]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue
Subjects:
Earthquakes
Alaska Earthquake, Alaska, 1964
Places:
Alaska
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 208 x 256 mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3n2078021
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
All rights reserved.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title(s) from item.
Preferred Citation:
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue, Boston Public Library
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Boston University, College of Communication, 1977/1978.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Identifier:
22_10_001165_0106
Barcode:
39999088103708