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B2006.023.8901.jpg
[1964 Earthquake, Turnagain]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 8000-8999
B2015.008.611
{panoramic photo of Mt Blackburn and surrounding peaks and glaciers showing route taken by Dora and her team}
Keywords: glacier, Mt Blackburn, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.158
A62 Fake beaver, Cliff Yoiung's; caption: A "Texas beaver" what fought its way clear to Faribanks and then met his water-Lu"
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.100
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.Logging.1.5.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1989.016.1040
GZ-12 (Mountains in Golden Zone) [view across river valley with river or road and power line in valley, possibly mine in foreground]
Keywords: mining, roads, power generation, electricity
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.ANC.Air.27.127.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / B90.14.5.ANC.Air.27
B1962.001.0895
[Sawmills]
Keywords: Sawmills, Machinery and equipment, Logs
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1994.022.715
(Callin Nash Motor Co.Garage Anchorage before 1939)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1984.077.18.026
[Artist, painter working on painting, easel, studio. View of water, mountains through windows in background]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.791.6
[Fishing boats with sails, approaching barges, Bristol Bay]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.104.1
Mt. Susitna, winter, taken from railroad tracks. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.89.13B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.5.69
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.130.006
44-1 March 17-30 plus x 40-24; DK 20 - 13 min @ 68°; Early morning shots of Seattle, Sunday, March 17th [Street scene with automobiles, street car tracks; businesses: Seattle Post-Intelligencer; bowling alley; Rosaia Bros. Florists; Grunba(?) business sign; automobile with Washington lecense plaed: A-97379]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1997.019.12
a line of graphite around the skin boat as a protection against evil spirits-After patrolling Bering Straits with several other crews and seeing no whales they camp on the shore ice sleep and perhaps dream of a 70 foot whale caught by the crew of the Alexander between the Diomede Islands
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B90.14.5.ANC.5.29
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5.ANC.5
B1990.014.5.AKNative.39.63
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative