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B1989.016.2186.1
(Sid's Dog Racing, Feb. 28, 1967) [musher leading seven-dog team down Anchorage street past spectators, some people standing in trees along street, Fur Rendezvous sled dog races. Photo by Sidney Hamilton]
Keywords: winter sports, recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.054
2394(91814)(1130am)(push moraine in front of Bryn Mawr Glacier)
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, Glaciers, icebergs
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1736.4
(Midnight sun on Chugach Mountains, March 1952)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.1.19
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1990.014.5.EQ.24.8.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_24
B2009.061.48
No. 25 - Dining Saloon of N.N. Co's Yukon River Packet "Susie" Huey
Collection: B2009.061
B2016.019.1.14d.04791.17
Sagafjord ship in Anchorage [Tourism], 1985
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Tourism, Anchorage, People, Sagafjord
Collection: B2016.019
B1990.014.2018.1.119.004
42-2; Lee [close-up of girl; March 3-10, 1940; likely Washington State]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.5.99
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1984.077.1.002
[Dog sitting in dog yard, fence made of chicken wire, doghouses in background]
Collection: B1984.077
B2016.004.278
[Craig George riding Skidoo Elan snowmachine without using his hands; print date May 80]
Collection: B2016.004
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.135
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.6.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B1979.002.Album1.85
Track and creek, Mile 41. Eugene Underwood [railroad tracks crossing flat near creek, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2022.005.173
[Two Indigenous Alaskan kids at a picnic reading comics; boy with pompadour hairstyle covering his face with an Archie comic] [At AFN 2024, identified as possibly Tommy Trigg beside Nome seawall]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Kids, Young man, Boy, Girl, Comics, Comic, Archie, Picnic, Pompadour, Hairstyle, Reading, Recreation, Nome, Seawalls, Tommy Trigg, Trigg
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.25b
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.ARR.5.8.25
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 5
B2014.023.215
(river valley fir trees at left)[mountain landscape]
Keywords: landscape
Collection: B2014.023
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.48
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.117.3
Knik Bridge, spring 1948. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1857.2
(ANMC Construction, Third and Gambell Street, 1951) [building exterior with scaffolding, Alaska Native Service Hospital, Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2146.28
#28 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [spectators gathered between City Hall and J. Vic Brown Jewelers on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, marching band with musical instruments waiting in foreground]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1962.001A.83
"Fairbanks, Chitina, Valdez, !! or bust!!" Valdez, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, P203 [Automobiles] [ca. 1885-1930]
Keywords: Automobiles, Trails, Glaciers, Valdez, Signs, Landscapes
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1990.014.5.ConConv.10.26
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
