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B1989.016.087
Frost on telephone wires, taken at F and 2nd Street in Anchorage, Nov. 1946. Photo by Eve Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.63.12
[soldier in uniform holding rifle standing outside building, Eugene Tetinek?]
Keywords: military, arms
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.2073.13
(Anchorage Houses, Nov. 1964, 12th and S, Yale and Stanford, Columbia and Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge) [single level wood frame home, winter, with chain-link fence in foreground and Cook Inlet in background]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.7.2.1
Cordova Building repair
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_7
B1989.016.1858.2
(Alaska Railroad yards and oil storage tanks) [view looking northeast from waterfront along railroad tracks, with Port of Anchorage storage tanks and buildings in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.11.5.3
Fire and responding fire crew.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_11
B90.14.5.AncAir.16.132.19
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 16
B2021.002.006.back
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.61
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1989.016.2230.1
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Anchorage Hockey League, 1936, Rod Johnson, George Karabelinkov, Joe Morino) [group portrait of hockey team with striped socks and sweaters labeled "Anchorage" on outdoor ice rink, advertisements on boards in background, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.People.14.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.18
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.27.003
9-3; View from Federal Building; 1/200 c 12.5 yellow [Thomas Basin boat harbor, docks, piers, structures, boats; Tongass Narrows, Pannock Island in distance; Ketchikan, 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.1937.4
7 (Fur Rondy Ice Show, 1950) [young boy and girl dressed as groom and bride getting set to skate, Fur Rendezvous, Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1255.1
Native graveyard at Eek, Alaska, lower Yukon. Hewitt's 42 [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.100.7
[pigs in yard, Quonset huts in background, Adak]
Keywords: animal husbandry, animals, military
Collection: B1995.014