[Collection of Stunning Photographs of Alaska]

[Various locations in south-central Alaska, 1941. Very good plus.. Eighteen photographs, each 6 x 8 inches, most signed and titled in manuscript by the photographer. Minor wear. A collection of eighteen beautiful photographs taken by noted Alaskan photographer Maurice L. Sharp, featuring various subjects and scenes around south-central Alaska in the late-1930s. The photographs were published in various issues of the Alaska Sportsman between 1938 and 1941. Most of the images are signed and titled by Sharp in the bottom margins or on the verso. The photographs feature subjects and scenes such as "Yukon Boys - Alaska," "Mt. McKinley from Wonder Lake" (three (truncated) images), "Harbor, Anchorage," "Colonist's Home, Alaska" (two images), "Pioneer's Cabin," "Palmer, Alaska," "Gulls," "Northern Lights - Anchorage," "'Leader' Alaskan sled dog," "Sunset Tide," "The Old Cache" (two images, an uncaptioned image of sled dogs, and more. A few of the present photographs were printed by Sharp on textured paper to achieve a different, more artistic result to his printed images. (Inventory #: 2368)