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| Title | Portage Bay otherwise known as Passage Canal, ca. 1912 |
| Photographer | Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940 |
| Date | ca. 1912 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Portage Bay, Alaska
PH Coll 247.431 |
| Contextual Notes | The body of water that present-day Whittier, Alaska, perches beside was known in 1941 as "Portage Bay." It later became referred to in official papers as "Passage Bay" and the military eventually adopted that new name. Within a few years, however, the common name changed again to "Passage Canal", a name later cemented by usage on USGS and nautical charts. It has, at various times in the past, been called "Chugatskoii Bay", "Chugach Bay", "West Chugach Bay", "Portage Bay", "Portage Fjord", "Portage Canal" and "Passage Bay." Finally, today the body of water remains known as "Passage Canal."
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Passage Canal (Alaska); Bays (Bodies of water)--Alaska |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Estuaries--Alaska |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Passage Canal |
| Digital Collection | John E. Thwaites Photographs |
| Order Number | THW222 |
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| Negative Number | THWAITES 247.431 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | John E. Thwaites Photograph Collection. PH Coll 247
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003. |
