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B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus.31.175
Anchorage -Business-Hotels-Capt. Cook Hotel Winter 64-65 Not done yet (Under construction)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus
B1990.014.2018.1.100.005
37-3 Exterior at 1055 Stedman St. [Ketchikan; January 1940; street view of domicile with porch, front stairs; sidewalk]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.2141.62
D-81 [woman wearing gloves and fur parka with geometric decoration standing outside large building in winter]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.25.45.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2010.006
Panoramic Photograph of Downtown Anchorage 1948, looking across Knik Arm towards Pt. Mckinzie and Mt. Susitna. National Photo and News Service photo number 106481
Keywords: 1948; Panoramic Photograph, Anchorage, Knik Arm, Point McKinzie, Mount Susitna, Columbia Lumber Company of Alaska, Jade Room
Collection: B2010.006
B1990.014.2018.1.191.005
62-3 Native man at Saxman [man wearing driving cap and striped shirt; mountain in background; February 1943]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.P.25.90.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P25
B1989.016.2047.3.7
(US Air Force airplane down in Cook Inlet, January 30, 1957) [Douglas C-124C Globemaster II in water. 35mm neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.6.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5_ANC.6
B2015.008.1047a
Road’s End Farm, from road to E. Dover [view across field to rolling hills]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.361.10
Anchorage High School Bldg. Hewitt's #10 [Anchorage Grade School construction]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.227
[Young couple in uniform (possibly Civil Air Patrol or US Air Force) holding hands outside concrete building; other men in uniform nearby]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, Couple, Pair, Young man, Man, Men, Young woman, Woman, Uniform, Building, Concrete, Civil Air Patrol, CAP, C.A.P., USAF, U.S.A.F., US, Air Force, Clothing
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2006.023.4128
Dog team stopped next to road sign reading "Nome 20."
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1990.014.5.Logging.2.23
(Ketchikan Pulp Company Thorne Bay)(4901)(July 1966)( Ketchikan Pulp Co.)(Garage Shop)
Keywords: forestry, logging, lumber, timber
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 2
B2019.019.IA9-6
Gold Creek, Juneau area, 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Water, Juneau, Gold Creek
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B90.14.5.ANC.4.31
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_40_5_ANC_4
B1989.016.1918.7
From Anchorage, Alaska, comes a hearty Merry Christmas [Christmas card mat with sketch of Cook Inlet and photograph of Fourth Avenue looking east, with 4th Avenue Theater]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.660.12
65. A settlers home at Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [log cabin at Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.787.t15
T15 [base camp on beach, grassy flat in background, brush at right, two men near small
tents, probably G.A. Rabehl left and George right, laundry hanging on clothesline. has neg]
Keywords: camp, camping, tent
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.271
B48 Copper Center Trading Post [two women at counter, scale, groceries, barrel stove, produce; Lipton Tea, Reliance Coffee on counter, Armour's Hennery Eggs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.P.25.101
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P25
B1998.014.1.1315
(P1 alaska furs/exhibit; 1946 postcard) [woman seated on bear pelt, surrounded by animal furs, pelts, spruce trees, parka in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B90.14.5.ARR.3.16
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 3
B90.14.5.AncAir.16.134.20
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 16
B90.14.5.ARR.1.241
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1984.077.23.014
[railroad station, depot, trains, people, automobiles, flag at half staff, grain elevators? in far left]
Collection: B1984.077
B2017.024.1154
Alaska - Eskimo kids play in Barrow street in summer, 1986 [1961?; two Inupiat boys pose for camera; tracked vehicle in background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Children
Collection: B2017.024
B2016.019.3.20.08662.04
Morning scenic in Lower Herring Bay, Prince William Sound, [Scenics - Summer], c. 1991
Keywords: summer, scenic, herring bay, prince william sound, southcentral, Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Summer Scenics
Collection: B2016.019