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[Northern Lights, Fairbanks, Alaska]

[Northern Lights, Fairbanks, Alaska]

Public Domain

[Northern Lights, Fairbanks, Alaska]
Artist
CultureUnknown
Titles
  • [Northern Lights, Fairbanks, Alaska]
Date1940s–1950s
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 3 1/4 × 4 7/16 in. (8.3 × 11.2 cm)
 Sheet: 4 × 5 1/16 in. (10.1 × 12.9 cm)
Credit LineBarbara Levine and Paige Ramey Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2020.137.29.33
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

This snapshot was likely taken by a visitor to Fairbanks, Alaska,
admiring the Northern Lights one winter day while standing on the frozen
surface of the Chena River at the edge of downtown. Alternately, it may record
the hovering presence of a UFO.




ProvenanceBarbara Levine and Paige Ramey; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions recto or verso]

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