Cordova, The First 75 Years
A Photographic History

Rose C. Arvidson
with Rose Weathers
and Ralph Nichols
Paperbound, 8.5 x 10.75,
98 pages
ISBN 0-9607358-3-6
Published 1984
$25.95
includes USPS postage

Cordova, The First 75 Years
A Photographic History

Rose C. Arvidson

Seventy-five years ago, the town of Cordova was just rising from the sawdust and shavings of its own creation. To understand why this town grew on this spot, a person needs a sense of its location. Situated on Eyak Lake with Prince William Sound at its front door and the Copper River Flats at its back, it has access to the rich Kennecott copper of the interior up the Copper River, and was adjacent to oild and coal lands along the northern Gulf of Alaska. The Copper River & Northwestern Railroad headquartered here to take advantage of all these things, plus its fine harbor. . . .

From the foreword by Lone Janson

Cordova has been many things over the years; she still is many things. Her myriad different faces at work or play, in good times and disaster times, appear in the pages of this book.

Alaska photographer Rose Arvidson involvement with the history of Alaska in this photographic history of Cordova. Rose has been a participant in the Alaska Positive Travel Exhibit, All Alaska Women's Juried Art Show, All Alaska Juried Art Show, Alaska Photographers Guild and the Cordova Arts and Pagents Show.