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| Keywords: Cold Bay village, southwest end of the Alaska Peninsula, ca 1912 (THWAITES 221).jpeg check categories 27 October 2016 2 Photograph Creator John E Thwaites Caption on image Cold Bay Alaska Comment by researcher 11/2015 I think this is actually at what is now Puale Bay on Shelikof Strait and not at what is now called Cold Bay Thwaites may have been to both but the landscape here is more mountainous and the modern Cold Bay is very flat and has a very shallow bay not conducive to the steamships Thwaites worked on PH Coll 247 282<br/>Cold Bay is located in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge on the western end of the Alaska Peninsula It lies 634 miles southwest of Anchorage and 180 miles northeast of Unalaska Archaeological sites dating to the last ice age indicate the area around Cold Bay was once inhabited by a large Native population and was used by European hunters and trappers throughout the 19th century During World War II Cold Bay was the site of the strategic air base Fort Randall At that time the airport was the largest in the state with a 10 000' runway Subjects LCTGM Cold Bay Alaska ; Villages--Alaska; Dwellings--Alaska--Cold Bay depicted place Cold Bay Alaska ca 1912 Institution University of Washington UWASH-THWAITES-source accession number thwaites 221 PD-old-auto-1923 1940 Information field Order Number THW144 Images from the John E Thwaites Photographs of Alaska Collection to check Cold Bay Alaska Villages | ||||
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