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Nike Hercules in Alaska, Title Page - Nike Hercules Missile Battery Summit Site, Anchorage Alaska, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
Title
Nike Hercules in Alaska, Title Page - Nike Hercules Missile Battery Summit Site, Anchorage Alaska, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Medium 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER AK,2-ANCH,24- (sheet 1 of 2)
Place of creation Alaska; Anchorage; Anchorage
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Summit Site Nike Hercules Missile Battery on Mt. Gordon Lyon near Anchorage, Alaska represents the ground to air defense system employed during the first two decades following World War II. The site is significant as the representative of the technology employed and the engineering feat accomplished in the construction of this and other Nike Hercules sites within Alaska.
  • Survey number: HAER AK-18
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1957- ca. 1959 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1979 Subsequent Work
Source/Photographer https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ak0208.sheet.00001a
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Object location61° 13′ 05.02″ N, 149° 54′ 01.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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