Image gallery for Cabin at core of UAF history

See how the campus has grown up around the Rainey-Skarland cabin.

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The Rainey cabin is barely visible in an aerial photograph of the University of Alaska campus taken in 1938 by Bradford Washburn.

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By July 10, 1941, when this aerial photograph was made, the boreal forest on campus was partially cleared and the Rainey cabin was at the edge of a hayfield.
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The Rainey-Skarland cabin peeks out from the left side of the Cutler Apartment Complex in this photo taken in fall 2005.

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