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B2015.008.972
[man on ship deck, possibly George]
Keywords: ship, transportation, travel
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.80
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.1
A number of concrete block bldgs of Anchorage to demonstrate that generally those buildings did not suffer serious damage in the March 27 earthquake of 1964. The views were made for Ken Sheppard President of the Alaska Concrete Products corp on Whitney Rd.
Keywords: buildings, power lines
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B90.14.5.Logging.1.8.16
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1990.014.2018.1.160.005
52-3 Mrs. Ohasi [sic: Ohashi] & Hope in native dress [Hope Ohashi poses wearing kimono and obi and holding paper umbrella; Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2015.026.1236
Lake Louise, 3/00 [scenics of Glenn Highway, group with snowmachines outside Lake Louise Lodge. Have negs]
Keywords: Lake Louise, Lake, Lodge, Glenn Highway, Glenn HWY, Glenn Hwy, Highway, Mountain, Mountain range, Winter, Midwinter, Snow, Snowy
Collection: B2015.026
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.1.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B2011.007.affidavit4
Affidavit of recovered civilian
Collection: B2011.007 Mary Breu Etta Jones Collection
B2018.023.041b
041 J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] Caption on image: “Goetze, Koliutschit Siberia”; [label] “82” Caption on slide: “Eskimos and their igloo Koliutschit, Siberia” [verso of slide: man, women, and child pose outside domicile wearing parkas, mukluks; child holds what is possibly a toy; domicile appears to be made of animal hides, affixed with ropes weighted by stones; possibly water in distance; black and white]
Collection: B2018.023
B1989.016.2058.11
Holiday Greetings (Christmas Cards 1939) [Christmas card mat with sketch of skier under Northern Lights, with painting of cabin under Northern Lights. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.168.46.1.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B2017.023.008
[glacier, floatplane landing on water, snow, mountain, clouds, color image]
Collection: B2017.023
B1998.014.1.1770
(T91 Dawson Creek, British Columbia; milepost in street) [street scene with sign in middle of street "Dawson Creek; Ft. St. John 49; Ft. Nelson 300; Whitehorse 918; Fairbanks 1523; Mile '0' Alaska Hi-way" businesses: Pharmacy; Royal Cafe, Ice cream, smokes, confections; Lawrence Meat Market; Wings Cafe; Spittals Meat Market; Groceries; Theatre; Monarch Ford; The Bank of Toronto; Philco; Geo Bissett Hardware; Sporting Goods; automobiles; steel drums (containers), lumber, material piled in street; City Bus Stop
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.014.90
Frida [Alaska Native man and two women wearing fancy fur parkas with geometric decoration standing outside log cabin in winter, man with mustache wearing fur hat, parka with fur on the inside, and Athapascan-style mittens, metal wash basin on wall at left above wood pile. Paper with Kodak Velox Paper stamp.]
Collection: B2015.014
B90.14.5.ARR.2.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B2006.023.8177.jpg
[Boat building]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 8000-8999
B1989.016.1923
Mt. McKinley National Park and Its Relation to the Alaska Railroad, 1924 [map. 5 x 7 nitrate negative. Cracked. Discarded after scanning]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.43.80
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2006.023.5421
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Photo Exhibition. Birch Lake. Photo by Pete Martin.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2019.003.127
Native method of splitting logs [three men using hand tools to cut timber on rack in wooded area]
Collection: B2019.003
B2006.023.4501.jpg
Western Yukon Air terminal at unidentified airport. Carousel labeled: Buying fish Pitkas Point. Joe Sr. fish buying.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B1989.016.2035.9
(Monument, Anchorage-Palmer Highway) [man wearing three-piece suit and fedora with three women, presumably from the Daughters of the American Revolution, standing next to stone marker]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.094.327.87
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1998.014.1.2312
Alaskan Meat-eating mosquito (suns beachus horriblis)" "mosquito cartoon (mosquito eating moose)" [artwork depicting mosquito in flight carrying moose, knife and fork]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.38.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative