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Western-Landscape, places & Historic-US, Canada & Hawaii-Updated 2021.4.14

The images in this Gallery are collated alphabetically first by State Code like AZ, then in some cases a location code like GCNP(Grand Canyon National Park) and then by the date of capture and a caption. All the images on this Gallery are protected by US copyright laws. No image may be copied or downloaded without formal written permissin from Tom Jesiolowski?Northland Arts Nature Images.
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AK-SPn-2001.6#3087.3. The Burled Arch. End of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race on Front Street in Nome, Alaska. In front of an alley for storage till race time.
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AK-SPn-2001.6#3087.3. The Burled Arch. End of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race on Front Street in Nome, Alaska. In front of an alley for storage till race time.

  • AK-SPa-2001.6#2820.3. Anvil Rock on the Summit of Anvil Mountain near Nome. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPa-2015.6.21#001.2. The White Alice Tropospheric Antennas on the top of Anvil Mountain Nome. It was built by the military for more accurate remote communications (WACs) in the early 1950's. It also served as a Distant Early Warning (DEW) line covering the Arctic Circle. It became obsolete with Satellite Communication. Seward Peninsula Alaska. Four people on the far right of the ridge give some perspective to the size. This is one of only a couple of White Alice sites that the Dept. of Defense didn't dismantle in the 1970's and 80's.
  • AK-SPa-2015.6.21#001.2X. White Alice Tropospheric Antennas. Anvil Mountain Nome. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPa-2015.6.21#074.2. Tropospheric Antenna on the top of Anvil Mountain near Nome. A remnant of the 1950's and 60's Cold War era. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPn,a-2001.6#1009.4. The Old Saint Joseph's Catholic Church. The oldest wood framed gothic building in Alaska. It was originally built in 1901 but fell in disrepair in the 1940's. The City of Nome moved it and rebuilt the 88 foot tall steeple in Anvil City Square and is now used as a Town Hall. Nome, Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPn,b-2001.6#5117.3. The Old Saint Joseph's Catholic Church. Now a Town Hall in Anvil City Square. Nome, Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPn-2001.6#0250.3. Front Street, Nome. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPn-2001.6#3087.3. The Burled Arch. End of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race on Front Street in Nome, Alaska. In front of an alley for storage till race time.
  • AK-SPn-2001.6#3563.3. The famous Nugget Inn. Front St. in Nome. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPn-2001.6#5537.3. Looking down the Snake River from an Alaska Airlines Jet as we come around to make our approach into Nome from the south. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPn-2001.6.20#6.3. The Swanberg Dredge. Mile marker 1 on the Nome to Council road. Also known as the Johnson-Pohl Dredge. Built in San Francisco CA. Walter Johnson received it in 1946 and immediately started dredging for gold .He couldn't recover enough gold to make his payments. The Nome bank seized the dredge a year later. In 1963 the Nat. Bank of Fairbanks bought it from the City of Nome. In 1966 one of their board members Nelson Swanberg bought it hoping to turn it into a tourist attraction. It still sits one mile east of Nome on the Nome to Council road. Seward Peninsula Alaska. It has been a roost for Ravens ever since.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24#103.2. An Inupiaq Eskimo native Fish camp on the Norton Sound shore near Safety Sound along the Nome to Council road. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24#114.3. Gold mining on a Norton Sound beach off the Nome to Council road, Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24#115.2. A modern Inupiaq Eskimo hunting and fishing camp on the shore of Norton Sound along the Nome to Council road. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24#117.2. An inupiaq Eskimo Hunting and fishing camp near the shore of Norton Sound along the Nome to Council road. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24#121.1. A view of an unusually large home looking out over Norton Sound. Most of the cabins and homes are fishing and hunting camps out here. Viewed off the Nome to Council road, Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24#122.1. An abandoned camp looking out to Safety Sound off the Nome to Council road on the Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24#125.1. A more contemporary fishing and hunting camp on the shore of Norton Sound along the Nome to Council road. Seward peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24#126.2. A Fishing, Hunting camp on the shore of Norton Sound along the Nome to Council road. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • AK-SPns-2015.6.24#127.1. The farthest northwest I've ever seen a Route 66 sign in North America. Viewed from the Nome to Council road on Norton Sound. Seward Peninsula Alaska.
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