After this, my supposition is that they boarded an Alaska Marine Highway ferry, as there’s this picture:

Looking closely at the bow, we can see that this is the M/V Bartlett. This makes sense, as the Bartlett served the Cordova-Valdez-Whittier route on Prince William Sound and we know that at some point they ended up in Whittier because of this photo:

And we know that this is Whittier because it’s a photo of the town’s most-prominent structure—the Begich Building.

The Begich Building is known as the residence of most of Whittier’s population as well as most of its government offices and businesses. Built in the 1950s to serve as a headquarters for the US Army Corps of Engineers, it was turned over to the local populace in the 1960s and converted to condominiums. 

Since we can now connect Valdez and Whittier via a ferry on Prince William Sound, we can assume that most, if not all, of the following photos are of Prince William Sound:

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