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<p>The NARA title "Native Church, Metlakatla, Alaska, 1908" is a misidentification, most likely a switch of images with NARA 297837.  The church (completed 1896) does not appear in this photograph, which is a distant view of Metlakatla centered on Duncan's Cannery.  This photo is the mate of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yellow_Hill_(Section_of_Metlakahtla)_Before_the_church_was_built._(M.A.M.,_Feb._1926)_-_NARA_-_297379.jpg" title="File:Yellow Hill (Section of Metlakahtla) Before the church was built. (M.A.M., Feb. 1926) - NARA - 297379.jpg">File:Yellow Hill (Section of Metlakahtla) Before the church was built. (M.A.M., Feb. 1926) - NARA - 297379.jpg</a> (note the rowboat) they combine nicely without scale adjustment to make a panorama. This photo, like that one, has a very sharp, high-resolution image of waterfront buildings in Metlakatla.  The tree bandstand is still present. A building which may be Duncan's second sawmill is present to the left of the cannery and there is no construction on the next point where the third sawmill was located.
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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Front view of the church</li></ul></div>
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