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Eugene Omar Goldbeck (1892-1986) A PAIR OF ALASKA PANORAMAS, late 1940s. Comprising two silver gelatin print panoramas: PANORAMA OF FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, 1949, depicting a sweeping view of Fairbanks, measuring 224 x 1455mm, titled and numbered in the negative, with photographer and publisher's credits. Additionally, a National Photo & News Service, San Antonio, Texas, ink stamp with order details verso. This panorama depicts the buildings of central Fairbanks, including churches, houses and stores, the latter mainly dedicated to the mining industry which formed the main business of Fairbanks at this time. PANORAMA OF ANCHORAGE, ALASKA & VICINITY, 1948, depicting a sweeping view of Anchorage, measuring 228 x 1432mm, titled and numbered in the negative, with photographer and publisher’s credits, and label ‘Mt. McKingley – Highest in North America – Over 20,0000 feet. 135 miles distant from camera’ in the negative. Additionally, a National Photo & News Service, San Antonio, Texas, ink stamp with order details on verso. Goldbeck (1892-1986), who had served in the Photographic Division of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, set up the National Photo Service in 1921 - the first and only independent news photography supplier headquartered in Texas at the time. In the 1930s they started producing motionpicture footage. He continued focussing on military subjects, touring US military bases at home and abroad, until after the Second World War. He continued photographing all over the world, capturing landscapes in panorama; this view contrasts the industrial rail-yard against of post-war Anchorage with the wilderness beyond. Goldbeck’s technical expertise in panoramic photography led him to patent several improvements to the Cirkut camera, enabling photographers to record views from a great height while maintaining an even scan.