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B1989.016.2058.17
Season's Greetings (Christmas Cards 1939) [Christmas card mat with sketch of moose and holly leaves, with photograph of Alaska Native woman ice fishing. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1553.1
(Early Alaska Airplane Scenes) [pilots climbing into cockpit of Star Air Service biplane "North Star." Flight instruction?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.31.2B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.5.AKNative.28.62
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.205
B17 Curry Hotel Lobby [people, dog, stairway, check-in desk]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.19
A number of concrete block bldgs of Anchorage to demonstrate that generally those buildings did not suffer serious damage in the March 27 earthquake of 1964. The views were made for Ken Sheppard President of the Alaska Concrete Products corp on Whitney Rd.
Keywords: building exterior, power lines
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1989.016.2176.5
(Sid's dog races and dogs, 1948) [parked automobiles, groups of spectators, Chugach Mountains in distance, Anchorage Park Strip? Fur Rendezvous? Photo by Sidney Hamilton]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.60
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2016.005.081
{photo album of family and military service on Attu during World War II}
Collection: B2016.005
B1995.014.18.17
[portrait of Caucasian man sitting with dog on top of dog kennel]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1995.014
B2006.023.6302
4 top winners 1973. [Dick Wilmarth, George Attla, Dan Seavey, and Bobby Vent in Nome at the end of the 1973 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2018.023.001b
[verso of .001a provides wider view; scenic view, structures situated between two bodies of water, possibly lake or lagoon, mountains, utility poles; possibly Lake Bennett, Yukon; hand colored
Collection: B2018.023
B1989.016.730.11
Thomas Culhane's sheep [two Dall sheep on fenders of Walt's Transfer Baggage Service van]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.1315.t38crop
T38 [three climbers on glacier with large crevasses, Dora with camera at right, two
men with ice picks at left]
Keywords: mountaineering, climbing, glacier, crevasse, climber, ice axe
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.561
E5 Eskimo woman in bird parka "1938" [same as .560, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1344.5
Moose, McKinley Nat. Park. Hewitt's, 14 [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.107
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2018.023.033b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: Four girls with braided hair wearing pants made of hide; mukluks; parkas; bags hung around the neck and over the chest may be for gathering roots or tubers; tundra; hill in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2017.011.149
Alaska ’48 – Bethel, Gene Snow’s father & native belles [barge pilot with four female passengers, Yupik women wearing Western clothing. Removed from broken mount]
Collection: B2017.011