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B1995.014.19.12
Mrs. John [portrait of Alaska Native woman wearing printed kuspuk sitting with dog on wooden stairs near fence, possibly church]
Keywords: clothing, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.1.14
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 1
B1989.016.1882.23
(Bristol Bay fishing) [cannery worker standing on dock next to sunken sailboat, probably Libby, McNeill, & Libby cannery]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.095.10.19A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.2018.1.51.003
20-4; Portrait of Kitty Fox [child wearing sweater sits at table writing with pencil; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.026.3
Mt. McKinley from the Railroad. 500. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, 66.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.4.35
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 4
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.91.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1989.016.784.3
[Star Air Lines airplane NC168N at Merrill Field, Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1970.019.689
[View from 3d and I St.? circa 1950s] 2.75 x 3.5 negative
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B1983.091.S1564.B31
(Nunivak Island Trip native people children receiving candy)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2015.008.893
Soldier from Ft. Liscum getting ice from Shoup Glacier, 1914 [distant view of rowboat
pulled up to moraine, man part way up moraine, seracs overhead]
Keywords: glacier, seracs
Collection: B2015.008
B2022.005.255
[one Indigenous woman and one Indigenous man dancing on a platform in front of a crowd with at least two drummers in the background and a white man in hat and coat to the left. Similar to .254, .256, .257]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, dancers, drums
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1979.002.Album1.104
Shacks on lot "A", Seward, Alaska. Eugene Underwood [street scene with log cabins and wood-frame houses, circa 1914]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2000.014.589
(589)(Arthur Mayo and Joe Robert at Dawson Stampede-copy- Tanana Feb 21, 1916)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1989.016.2243.5
(Star Air Service, pilots/inspectors, Hugh Brewster, CAA; Burris Smith, mechanic; M.J. Valley, pilot) [names not individually associated with negs. Portrait of man in mukluks, fur hat, and light-colored fur parka with dark hood roots and geometric decoration]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2185.2
4. (Ice Carnival, 1957) [two men and woman in costumes skating in front of spectators under electric light, night, outdoors]
Keywords: winter sports, recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.77
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.459.4
Taylor Cub, Larry Larson [Piper Cub NC 21585]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2001.014.331
{Wonder Park Subdivision Properties and Residents}
Keywords: Wonder Park, subdivision, homes
Collection: B2001.014
B1995.014.102.4
[man wearing brimmed hat, eyeglasses, and tall lace-up boots standing with dog outside log cabin, near Purgatory?]
Keywords: animals, clothing, residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.StateBattle.8.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.StateBattle