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B1989.016.290.9
Valdez Highway scenes, log buildings [cabin and cache]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.687
229a.1. Camp 5 [three men standing on edge of crevasse, climber in foreground
wearing crampons, two men at left holding picks]
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, glacier, mountaineering, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1994.022.590
Winter Trucking by Hoyt Fairbanks Studio Alaska (Richardson Highway Freight and freightage-tractors-wagons)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1989.016.1447
(Alaska Air in flight over mountains) [Alaska Airlines DC-3 airplane tail number NC 91007. Copy neg. same as .1439]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.679
F13 Ketchikan, fishing schooners tied up, photo by Frank Morgan [same as .677, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1973.079.52
[Nome downtown scene with pedestrians and dogs on the street]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.22
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.2428
"Christmas cards" [winter scene of snowshoe tracks between spruce treess]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.605
"E35 Kotzebue, Eskimos dancing 'Arctic Hep Cats,' Feb 1948 postcard" [men and women dancing, mukluks, parkas, drummers in foreground, obeservers in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.551
Learning to harrow with the tractor. George (left) & Prof. Jacobs [two men riding tractor pulling harrow]
Collection: B2015.008
B1986.096.68.3
[Municipal workers hanging Christmas decorations at H Street, Anchorage, 1950s]
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1990.014.5.TV.083.144.4.2B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1998.014.1.934
L99 Glenn Hiway entering Matanuska Valley (Alaska Highway) [scene on roadway, structures, barn, house, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.70.20
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.292
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1981.145.82a
A-576 SSYukon Veteran River Sternwheeler, Nenana {Stern wheeler moored at the dock}
Keywords: transportation, shipping
Collection: B1981.145
B2014.023.204
(scenics river gorge)[canyon and river landscape]
Keywords: landscape
Collection: B2014.023
B2005.013.246
Eskimos, Scammon Bay, 6/26/51 [Alaska Native women and children sitting on tundra]
Collection: B2005.013
B1989.016.2183.15
(Dog races, Fur Rondy 1952) [musher with bib #16 leading seven-dog team down Fourth Avenue past spectators, Fur Rendezvous banners and businesses including Smart Shop, Anchorage Jewelers, The Gitchell, Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, Dr. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son, Reed's, 515 Club, Lois Beauty Salon]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.667
222.10 [view through trees to glacier terminus, pine tree in foreground]
Keywords: tidal glacier, Prince William Sound, glacier, College Fiord
Collection: B2015.008
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.21.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1962.001A.433
Wheat field at Gov. Exp. Sta., Copper Center, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, G2455 [Agriculture; Agricultural Experiment Stations] [Ahtna Territory, Tl'aticae'e (Copper Center)]
Keywords: Ahtna Territory, Tl'aticae'e, Copper Center, Agriculture, Wheat, Fields, Farms and farming, Government Experiment Station, Colonies, Agricultural Experiment Station
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B2017.024.3545
January 1962; St Michael [sled dogs tied near dogsled; log structures; drifted snow]
Collection: B2017.024