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B1989.016.770
Anchorage Hotel. Hewitt's Photo Shop [Fourth Avenue street scene with automobiles and businesses including Schodde's Green Front, Frisco Cafe, Koslosky's, W.E. Hand Taxidermist, A. Niemi Hardware, a drug store, Paris Dry Cleaners, Anchorage Grill & Restaurant, Sultan Building, North Pole Bakery, Watson's Baby Shop, Star Air Lines, Logemann Building, Kennedy's]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.5.11
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.014.3.17
Pete How, trapping at Fort Yukon [man and dog team stopped on winter trail]
Keywords: transportation, hunting
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.91.24
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2015.012.203
1955 Fur Rendezvous [Alaska Native woman wearing short fur parka, headscarf, and eyeglasses looking at sales booth. b&w negative]
Collection: B2015.012
B1989.016.2080.39
(Sportscar Race, Fur Rendezvous, Anchorage, 1963) [cars passing Alaska Sales and Service]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.657
"All same." So St Paul, Matanuska Colonist Project. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [tent city next to Alaska Railroad tracks, with men, lumber, and automobiles at Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.37
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.39.006
16-1 June Plus X - 128 day Weston; DK 20-21 min @ 70 degrees; Pictures from "Roberta" taken c 1/8 c f2; others @ 128 Weston reading [musicians performing; woman standing in center of group of musicians; possibly musical "Roberta"' Ketchikan, 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1997.003.258
[aerial view of landscape; struts and bottom of wing in foreground]
Collection: B1997.003
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.5.3
(August 1, 1953; 10,000 feet, visibility good) [aerial view of Anchorage, Fort Richardson, Elmendorf, Spenard, Rogers Park; includes Carnival Club on Seward Highway south of Fireweed Lane]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air
B1995.014.28.9
F-E Co. 1942 [close up of plant at Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.144.002
47-6 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structures; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2009.017.1982.Bulldozer.Subsistence
Subsistence living (1982)
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B1990.014.5.ConConv.18.27
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1990.014.5.Logging.2.21
(Ketchikan Pulp Company Thorne Bay)(4899)(July 1966)(Ketchikan Pulp Co.)(Thorne Bay)(Trailer Home)
Keywords: forestry, logging, lumber, timber
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 2
B1998.014.1.4636
(Barter Island misc (Vern's))[ Aerial from plane window of Barter Island]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.3
4th Ave East/ Duplicate of older photograph. 3/27/64
Keywords: streets, street lights, street signs, crane, construction, cars, power lines, pedestrians
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B2016.019.1.04b.10946.30
Lifeguard Team at Providence Hospital. Anch, Alaska [Anchorage - People, Shopping, and Hotel Guests], c. 1994
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Anchorage, People, Lifegaurds, Providence Hospital
Collection: B2016.019
B1995.010.4897
[woman wearing fancy dress parka and lace-up shoes, walking with man, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.2012
T229 Homer Airport [aircraft tied down at gravel strip; Chevron fuel truck parked next to Pacific Northern Airlines Douglas DC-3N37465; likely Stinson Sentinel number 534518; Piper PA-18 Super Cubs, one with number N7145K equipped with tractor landing gear; tundra tires; structures in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1023.2
GZ-167 (Working in Golden Zone) [hydroelectric plant in West Fork of Chulitna. Plant dedicated August 1940]
Keywords: mining, power generation, electricity
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.020.1
Hewitt's Photo Shop. Pond with lily pads. Photographer's number 54.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
