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B2009.017.1988.06.11
“An elephant’s memory is nothing compared to its imagination” ©1988 Sat. June 11, 1988 [John Wood saying ‘The recall is a Faiks, Halford, and ARCO scheme to keep me out of Juneau!’, Jan Faiks and Rick Halford countering ‘he’s just a part of the nkworth plot to steal the Senate from us’. Print]
Collection: B2009.017
B1989.016.1329.2
Hewitt's Photo Shop [two moose in winter landscape with lake. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.EQ.2.10.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 2
B1990.014.2018.1.52.004
21-5 Interior of Pioneer Bar, beer, etc.. [men in bar; calendars on wall at left, likely August 1939; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.16.7
[musher with dogs in harness on boardwalk, man wearing rubber boots and driving cap, putting booties on dogs' paws, Russian Mission?]
Keywords: transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.91.42B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2021.010.209
[one Indigenous man posed next a wood building] [At AFN 2023, person tentatively identified as Sam Lazuras] [1926. Inupiaq territory, Nutchirviq / Nasirvik (White Mountain)]
Keywords: Inupiaq territory, Inupiat, Nutchirviq, Nasirvik, White Mountain, Indigenous, BIPOC, Portraits, Buildings, Sam Lazuras
Collection: B2021.010 Burlingame Collection
B1994.022.393Z.10
(Airplanes)[airplane landing on snow field]
Keywords: airplane
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1989.016.RomigHMrs.1
(Romig H Mrs Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1989.016.918
P-530. 9/22/36. Hewitt's Photo (Grading Potatoes) [men outside barn with sacks and crates]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1624.9
14. (Dedicating the Aurora Train, Alaska Railroad) [Army band playing at Anchorage depot, with spectators crowded around Kiwanis Club grandstand, Government Hill in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.023.157
(AKRR#1)[four men and a woman posing before the steps of a small building or rail car]
Collection: B2014.023
B2006.023.4458
Carousel labeled: Buying fish Pitkas Point. Joe Sr. fish buying.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2019.007.togiak.19910516.2T804
Drying subsistence seal, ptarmigan, spring, Togiak. Print date May 16, 1991.
Collection: B2019.007
B1990.014.5.ConConv.17.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1990.014.5.P.28.5.20
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P28
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1989.016.1954.3
(Anchorage High School Auditorium Fire, March 1953)[A very blurry copy photograph including wood frame showing firemen on the scene of fire bystanders watching]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.20.58
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2023.011.87
Alcan [scenic view of beetle kill pines and mountain in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Canada, Alcan Highway, Pine, Trees, Beetle kill, Mountain, River, 35mm, Film
Collection: B2023.011 Patricia A. Volkman
B1962.001.0127
Snow, Slate (Cr?) 8/25/05 [Gold mines and mining – Chistochina District; Slate Creek] [View of man walking towards camp in valley. Ahtna Territory, Tsiis Tl’edze’ Caegge (Chistochina)]
Keywords: Snow, Snowy, Slate Creek, Creek, Gold Mine, Mining, Chistochina District, Tsiis Tl’edze’ Caegge, Chistochina, View, Camp, Tent, Valley, Wooden barrels, Man
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1998.014.1.620
"E41 Kotzebue, Cutting a Kotzebue Caper, Feb 1948, Paul Smith, dancer" [man wearing fur mukluks, knit goves, western clothing dances; onlookers in parkes in background sitting next to wall]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2021.010.024
[two Indigenous women in fur parkas] [1926. Inupiaq territory, Nutchirviq / Nasirvik (White Mountain)]
Keywords: Inupiaq territory, Inupiat, Nutchirviq, Nasirvik, White Mountain, Indigenous, BIPOC, Women, Fur parkas
Collection: B2021.010 Burlingame Collection
B2009.017.1985.08.04
Bill Sheffield ! Did you chop down that Cherry Tree?
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B1992.033.050
O.W.Geist.-64 [caption] Fish strung on grass ropes and hung over poles for drying; all fish are split at the belly. [Nelson Island; herring; 1927]
Collection: B1992.033 Doris Bordine Collection
