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B1990.014.2018.1.5.004
Mother [woman sitting on sofa wearing corsage on her left shoulder; light at left; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1983.091.S5122.195
Anaktuvuk Pass trip, 5/73 [students painting in classroom]
Keywords: art
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2017.010.3.GH3
Traditional Iñupiat games in the Alaska Nat’l Guard Armory Building. • Selawik, Alaska • December 1975 • B&W Photo #3/15 • ( © George R. Harbeson Jr. )
Collection: B2017.010
B2015.008.536
Forget-me-nots on terrace [landscaping in front of shop and house. Cf. .1009]
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.Scn.9.014
Scn 11241; Ice face Knik Glacier; 30 July 1961 [glacier calving into water, outcrop in foreground]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.033.2
Anchorage winter vista. Hewitt's Photo Shop [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.004.266
Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Virna Canson, National Representative, NAACP, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2006.023.4582a.jpg
[Cora Hoffman birthday?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.15.31
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air
B1995.010.4053
Catholic statue [two women and child posed next to Virgin Mary statue on tundra; print date Aug 63]
Collection: B1995.010
B1990.014.5.AKNative.10.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2014.023.015
(Jeanne, Simpson, Goldstein)[three women engaged in conversation on the bank of a river with their backs turned to the camera]
Keywords: women, river, mountains
Collection: B2014.023
B2006.023.3313.jpg
Iditarod Dog Sled Team, Musher Joe Redington Sr. Knik Alaska, Morrison Knudsen sponsor, Hill's Science Diet [dog truck].
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 3001-3999
B2014.016.1931
Nome. Lady tourist at sales and workshop oomiak - ten men work under oomiak carving ivory and making mukluks [woman standing next to three umiaks on racks]
Keywords: boats, transportation, ethnotechnology, tourism
Collection: B2014.016
B1990.014.2018.1.198.003
64-2 Seagulls on trip south [bird in flight; March 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1987.086.008
Canneries. Cannery ship loading canned salmon Alaska. Chignik, Alaska.
Collection: B1987.086 Evelyn Lessel Postcard Collection
B1989.016.ShiellCE.1
(Shiell CE Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.2018.1.27.006
9-3; Deer Mt & John Larsen; 1/200 c 12.5 yellow [man standing on boardwalk; rooftops, structures, mountain in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.P.27.69.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P27
B1989.016.1110.1
P-37. Hewitt's (Hot boxes, Palmer) [vegetables growing in small greenhouse spaces]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.038.118
[view from amphibious airplane of two Alaska Native men and woman in skiff with outboard motor, village buildings on shore in background]
Collection: B2009.038
B1998.014.1.365
B83 Mount McKinley Building, 4th Ave. Anchorage, Alaska [street, streetlights, automobiles, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.141
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. This image is of the First Federal Savings and Loan Spenard Branch.
Keywords: building exterior, power lines
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B2009.020.019
{Anchorage Alaska 1988}{4th Avenue Theater interior and details}
Keywords: theater, 4th Avenue, interior, Anchorage
Collection: B2009.020
