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B1989.016.1882.22
(Bristol Bay fishing) [sailboats on bay]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.People.14.327
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B2009.017.1987.02.07
“’You can run, but you can’t hide’ Dept.: According to astronomers, the rest of the universe is speeding away from our galaxy” ©1987 Sat. Feb. 7, 1987 [Ronald Reagan wearing space suit, holding Star Wars laser guns]
Collection: B2009.017
B1989.016.2180.2
[view at mouth of Ship Creek in Cook Inlet, Alaska Railroad tracks in foreground with open freight cars, Port of Anchorage docks with ships and cannery buildings in middle ground, bluff over Knik Arm in distance]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.ANC.5.121
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5.ANC.5
B2006.023.5460
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Photo Exhibition. Dog sled and kids, Flathorn Lake. Photo by Joe Redington Sr.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.81
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2015.008.1038c
.1038a-c – [rear view of bungalow. 3 copies]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.AKNative.25.84
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.19.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B2015.007.59
[two young Alaska Native girls posed outdoors next to wood building in winter]
Collection: B2015.007
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.5.66
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 5
B2015.008.1296.dk554crop
554 [base camp in rocky area, three people under tarp with stick poles, probably
George at left, G.A. Rabehl in center, Dora at right, Harvard Glacier? Cf. .677, .775]
[.771] – 555 [has print]
[.772] – 556 [has print]
Keywords: camp, tarp, Dora
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.323.2
Fox furs, blue fox, wolverine [man holding string of pelts]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1982.046.054b
"Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum groundbreaking, September 12, 1967, 1. Herb Hilscher, 2. Bill Creighton, 3. Mary Louise Rasmuson, 4. Norma Hoyt, 5. Wilda Hudson, 6. Dick Silberer, 7 Elmer Rasmuson, 9. Ken Maynart, 10. Ben Marsh, Shultz & Maynard Architects, 14. Ted Schultz, (Shultz & Maynard); Merrill E. Grube photography" [verso of .054a]
Collection: B1982.046
B1989.016.2057.6
Alaska, A Merry Christmas [Christmas card mat with sketch of man with boat and cache, with photograph of sunset over water]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1701
T60 Nome, Alaska, photo by Frank Morgan (1948 postcards & print [street scene with businsses, storefronts, automobiles, jeep, possibly other military vehicles, people, North Pole Bakery, possible airline office on left; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.722.5
Stony Pass [dirt road, Mt. McKinley in distance?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2033.13
(Father Hubbard's trek to Valley of 10,000 Smokes) [view looking up to two men standing on edge of smoking fumarole. Bernard Hubbard expedition, circa 1929]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.People.19.027
People - Rondy 1948; 1890-26 B-5; Casualty of ski meet at Arctic Valley during Rendevous [sic: Rendezvous] touirnament; March, 1948 [skiers descend hill, some wearing race bibs with name "White Stag;" two skiers guide a tobbagan with passenger down the hill; spectators; has print]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 19
B1989.016.2078.4
5 (Fur Rendezvous Parade, 2-22-58) [military unit in white polar uniforms marching down Fourth Avenue passing spectators and businesses including Rexall Drugs, Hewitt's Drugs, Zenith Radio, Cheechako Tavern]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1606.1
[Valdez docks, with fishing boat, dock buildings, town and snow-covered mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1531.9
G.Z. 7 (Lucky Shot Mine) [men working near walled tents and log buildings at mining complex in mountains, probably Golden Zone Mine]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.017.1987.10.01
Oil! We found Oil!!! You idiot..This is groundwater... News item: 70% of known groundwater contamination in Alaska caused by petroleum products Thursday Oct 1, 1987
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, comics, cartoons, political
Collection: B2009.017