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.
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Cold Bay (Alaska); Villages--Alaska; Dwellings--Alaska--Cold Bay</li></ul>
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46211791" class="extiw" title="d:Q46211791"><span title="clerk for the US Railway Mail Service in Alaska">John E. Thwaites</span></a>
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://content.lib.washington.edu/thwaitesweb/index.html">John E. Thwaites Photographs of Alaska</a>