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B1990.014.5.AKNative.14.16
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.P.1.313.3A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P1
B1989.016.2083.2
(Fourth of July Parade, Anchorage, 1935) [spectators watching automobiles with floats pass on Fourth Avenue near E Street, with banners hanging over road]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.123.7
[soldiers carrying man on stretcher, stopped to rest in wooded area, rescue squad operations]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.2054.8
8-1940 (Fourth of July Parade, 1940) [Baby Shop float with stork pulling sled]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2012.030.3697
Earthquake damage to Turnagain Arm area, May 12, 1964 [aerial of shoreline]
Collection: B2012.030
B1989.016.1653.1
30. Healey River Coal Veins. Johnson & Tyler, Anchorage, Alaska. 7, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [Healy River. Johnson & Tyler credit scratched off negative]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2281.1.26
(Alyeska Olympic National Ski event, April 5, 1963. Section 1)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.921
[Dora on horseback at camp or settlement, man holding reins of horse in center,
buildings under construction in background]
Keywords: horse, pack horse, cabin
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.2018.1.81.001
29-5; view from top of mountain [same as .80.006; 1939; near Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.1539.3
133. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [men shoeing horses, with outbuildings, automobile, and animals in yard, mountains in distance, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: animal husbandry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.416.26
7. Rendezvous Queen Mary Margaret Abercrombie, 1939 [throne on stage with totem]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.785
L25 Enroute to McKinley National Park "1946 postcard" [scenic view, lake or river, mountains, spurce, clouds, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.1188
[commercial portrait of two children in traditional clothing, Transcaspian Oblast. With Russian caption]
Collection: B2015.008
B2019.003.061
“Scenes on Cook’s Inlet” [woman standing in shallow creek] [Dena'ina Elnena, Tikahtnu]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Tikahtnu, Cook's Inlet, Cooks Inlet, Cook Inlet, Inlet, Waterway, Woman, Creek, Mountain, Mountains, Mountain range
Collection: B2019.003
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.33.09
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2018.023.041b
041 J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] Caption on image: “Goetze, Koliutschit Siberia”; [label] “82” Caption on slide: “Eskimos and their igloo Koliutschit, Siberia” [verso of slide: man, women, and child pose outside domicile wearing parkas, mukluks; child holds what is possibly a toy; domicile appears to be made of animal hides, affixed with ropes weighted by stones; possibly water in distance; black and white]
Collection: B2018.023
B1990.014.5.People.14.622
1934; 11356; Jerry McCutcheon [toddler wearing drop-seat hickory stripe coveralls leans against structure; shingles]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1989.016.2177.15
#19 (Parade) [night, woman, probably Rondy Queen, carrying bouquet of flowers outdoors in front of spectators, 1950 Fur Rendezvous?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.91.45
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative